With Vista, TACC Now Has Three Paths To Its Future Horizon Supercomputer

The national supercomputing centers in the United States, Europe, and China are not only rich enough to build very powerful machines, but they are rich enough, thanks to their national governments, to underwrite and support multiple and somewhat incompatible architectures to hedge their bets and mitigate their risk. …

With Vista, TACC Now Has Three Paths To Its Future Horizon Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The Tough Road Still Ahead For Intel In The Datacenter

A few years back, when Intel went up on the rocks with its CPU and GPU designs largely because its chip research and manufacturing did not keep pace with the manufacturing and packaging advances made by foundry rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, we said that we were rapidly moving towards a world where Intel might have 40 percent of the CPU market, AMD might have 40 percent, and Arm and RISC-V would fight over the remaining 19 percent and 1 percent remaining for other exotic datacenter compute engine chippery. …

The Tough Road Still Ahead For Intel In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Big Blue Bucks The Datacenter Server Recession

Some patterns are very hard to break. From the very early days of the systems business as we know it, which started six decades ago, the fourth quarter of the calendar year has been the money maker for companies like IBM, and the second quarter has been a relatively big one for those who could not get their budgets together before the end of the prior year. …

Big Blue Bucks The Datacenter Server Recession was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Energy Giant Eni Boosts Its HPC Oomph By An Order Of Magnitude

The big oil and gas companies of the world were among the earliest and most enthusiastic users of advanced machinery to do HPC simulation and modeling. …

Energy Giant Eni Boosts Its HPC Oomph By An Order Of Magnitude was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The Age Of Edge Ops Is Upon Us

SPONSORED: DevOps has matured to the point in its evolution where its practitioners are often expected to play a full part in helping to make IT operations more agile. …

The Age Of Edge Ops Is Upon Us was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

TSMC Is A Bellwether For IT, But It Is Not The Weather Of All IT

There is no question that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co is one of the best bellwethers of the IT industry. …

TSMC Is A Bellwether For IT, But It Is Not The Weather Of All IT was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

IT Spending In 2024 Cools Thanks To “Change Fatigue”

Change may be inevitable, but it is also a pain in the neck. …

IT Spending In 2024 Cools Thanks To “Change Fatigue” was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Chip Packaging Trumps EDA: Why Synopsys Is Paying $35 Billion For Ansys

Here is how you know that the way chiplets are linked together to create what might have otherwise been a monolithic device is now more important than the way that the chiplets themselves are designed. …

Chip Packaging Trumps EDA: Why Synopsys Is Paying $35 Billion For Ansys was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Locking Down The Edge

COMMISSIONED: Edge security is a growing headache. The attack surface is expanding as more operational functions migrate out of centralized locations and into distributed sites and devices. …

Locking Down The Edge was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

No More Roach Motels For Data In The Clouds

The central tenets of cloud computing, which really ought to be called utility computing, is that you only pay for what you use and that you can turn compute, storage, and networking off when you are not actually using, thus freeing up capacity for those who need it. …

No More Roach Motels For Data In The Clouds was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The Datacenter GPU Gravy Train That No One Will Derail

We have five decades of very fine-grained analysis of CPU compute engines in the datacenter, and changes come at a steady but glacial pace when it comes to CPU serving. …

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The Datacenter GPU Gravy Train That No One Will Derail was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Why Would HPE Buy Juniper Networks?

It looks like Hewlett Packard Enterprise might be having a datacenter networking revival. …

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Why Would HPE Buy Juniper Networks? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The Future We Simulate Is The One We Create

Investment in supercomputing and related HPC technologies is not just a sign of how much we are willing to bet on the future with someone else’s money, but how much we believe in it ourselves, and more importantly, how much we believe in the core idea that we can predict and therefore shape the future of the world. …

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The Future We Simulate Is The One We Create was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

With “Big Chip,” China Lays Out Aspirations For Waferscale

The end of Moore’s Law – the real Moore’s Law where transistors get cheaper and faster with every process shrink – is making chip makers crazy. …

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With “Big Chip,” China Lays Out Aspirations For Waferscale was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Ethernet Switching Bucks The Server Recession Trend

You might be thinking that with all of the investment in AI systems these days that the boom in InfiniBand interconnect sales would be eating into sales of high-end Ethernet interconnects in the datacenter. …

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Ethernet Switching Bucks The Server Recession Trend was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Great Accelerations: Just How Much Will We Spend On GenAI Again?

Ever since the launch of the “Antares” MI300X and MI300A compute engines by AMD back in early December, we have been mulling over the spending forecasts for AI spending in general and for infrastructure and accelerators more specifically. …

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Great Accelerations: Just How Much Will We Spend On GenAI Again? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Building A Hassle-Free Way To Port CUDA Code To AMD GPUs

Emulation is not just the sincerest form of flattery. It is also how you jump start the adoption of a new compute engine or move an entire software stack from one platform to another with a different architecture. …

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Building A Hassle-Free Way To Port CUDA Code To AMD GPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

University Of Stuttgart Spends €115M To Go Exascale

The University of Stuttgart’s High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) in Germany has tapped Hewlett Packard Enterprise to build a pair of its next-generation supercomputers. …

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University Of Stuttgart Spends €115M To Go Exascale was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Datacenter Infrastructure Report Card, Q3 2023

It is hard to keep a model of datacenter infrastructure spending in your head at the same time you want to look at trends in cloud and on-premises spending as well as keep score among the key IT suppliers to figure out who is winning and who is losing. …

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Datacenter Infrastructure Report Card, Q3 2023 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Intel “Emerald Rapids” Xeon SPs: A Little More Bang, A Little Less Bucks

With each successive Intel Xeon SP server processor launch, we can’t help but think the same thing: it would have been better for Intel and customers alike if this chip was out the door a year ago, or two years ago, as must have been planned. …

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Intel “Emerald Rapids” Xeon SPs: A Little More Bang, A Little Less Bucks was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.