If you want to see what the future of iron to support machine learning looks like, then perhaps the best place to look at what the hyperscalers and cloud builders who account for the vast majority of processing and applications in this field are deploying. …
Peering Into The Future Of Machine Learning Hardware was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
I have been frequently asked when the OpenMP and OpenACC directive APIs for parallel programming will merge, or when will one of them (usually OpenMP) will replace the other. …
Burying The OpenMP Versus OpenACC Hatchet was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
One of Germany’s foremost scientific research centers, Jülich Forschungszentrum, will receive a €36-million infusion of government funding to advance quantum and neuromorphic computing technologies. …
Germany Makes Massive Quantum, Neuromorphic Investment was written by Michael Feldman at .
Memcache has become the ubiquitous way of loading objects quickly for most of the world’s largest websites and for that matter, for plenty of smaller enterprises that need to store and retrieve other objects from dense data stores. …
Reducing Managed Memcache Cost with NVM was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
If relational databases had just worked at scale to begin with, the IT sector would be a whole lot more boring and we wouldn’t be having conversation a conversation with Andrew Fikes, the vice president and Engineering Fellow at search engine, application, and cloud computing giant Google who has been instrumental in the creation of many of its databases and datastores since joining the company in 2001. …
Spanning The Database World With Google was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Containerized high performance computing is fast becoming one of the more popular ways of running HPC workloads. …
GPU Applications Get The Container Treatment was written by Michael Feldman at .
With a timeline to early production sometime in the next decade (if not longer), the business model for quantum computing has been nebulous from the beginning. …
The Winding Road to Quantum Computing ROI, Competition was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Architectural transitions for layers in the IT stack at hyperscalers can happen in a matter of years, and cloud builders and HPC centers can move at almost the same speed. …
The Slow But Inevitable Shift To Cloudy Infrastructure was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The cloud has been helping lower the cost and improve the quality of technology infrastructures and business practices for more than a decade, but implementation of cloud technologies can still pose challenges. …
Supermicro, Intel Tackle Next Wave of Cloud Demand was written by Daniel Robinson at .
The year ahead for high performance computing promises some interesting twists and turns. …
CPU Wars and Exascale Clarity: HPC in 2019 was written by Michael Feldman at .
We spent some time at the end of 2018 getting a handle on how parallel file systems in HPC need to evolve to meet the shifting demands in workloads driven by machine learning. …
Re-Architecting Parallel File Systems in the Post-Disk Era was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Sharing data via remote direct memory access (RDMA) has typically been a local affair, restricted to a single server or tightly bound clusters of servers. …
Startup Sees Potential for Long-Distance RDMA on Horizon was written by Michael Feldman at .
We predict new enterprise application development will pass a tipping point in 2019 and shift away from legacy virtual machines (VMs) and strongly toward containers and Kubernetes container orchestration. …
Containers Killed The Virtual Machine Star was written by Paul Teich at .
To effectively make use of the level of concurrency in forthcoming exascale systems – hundreds of thousands of compute elements with millions of threads – requires some new thinking, both by programmers and in development tools. …
Two Thirds of The Way Home With Exascale Programming was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
A few months ago, we took an in-depth look at Intel’s quantum hardware strategy—from qubits to device manufacturability and commercial viability. …
Intel’s Quantum Efforts Tied to Next-Gen Materials Applications was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Arm chip designers who make processors for mobile devices, such as Apple, Samsung, and Qualcomm, that do not have pre-existing server businesses have been skittish about entering the server fray with heftier versions of their Arm chips for datacenter compute. …
Huawei Jumps Into The Arm Server Chip Fray was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
IBM has come up with its newest and most advanced quantum computer to date, which the company claims is “the world’s first integrated universal approximate quantum computing system designed for scientific and commercial use.” The system, known as IBM Q System One, was unveiled at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) taking place in Las Vegas, Nevada this week. …
IBM Refines Hardware for Commercial Quantum Computing was written by Michael Feldman at .
As the list of the most powerful supercomputers on the planet reveal, GPU accelerated high performance computing is alive in well across many technical and scientific domains. …
GPUs Gather Force in Large-Scale Weather Forecasting was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
After 12 years of working in the high performance computing sector as both an industry analyst and journalist, I’m delighted to join The Next Platform as a senior editor. …
HPC Industry Expert Michael Feldman Joins The Next Platform was written by Michael Feldman at .
When Globalfoundries decided to stop its development and rollout of both immersion lithography and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography at the 7 nanometer process node back in August, it looked as if IBM, second only to AMD as a server chip customer for its most advanced fab in Malta, New York, would be left in a lurch with its future Power processors. …
IBM Bets On Samsung Fabs For Power10 Chips was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .