Why does Google need another database, and why in particular does it need to introduce a version of PostgreSQL highly tuned for Google’s datacenter-scale disaggregated compute and storage? …
Google Needs Another Database To Attack Oracle, DB2, And SQL Server Directly was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is Google I/O 2022 this week, among many other things, and we were hoping for an architectural deep dive on the TPUv4 matrix math engines that Google hinted about at last year’s I/O event. …
Google Stands Up Exascale TPUv4 Pods On The Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There is a fundamental disconnect between the cadence that chip makers want for their devices and what the hyperscalers and cloud builders would prefer. …
Intel Unrolls DPU Roadmap, With A Two Year Cadence was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The emerging field of neuromorphic processing isn’t an easy one to navigate. …
Neuromorphic Computing Will Need Partners To Break Into The Datacenter was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
James Clarke believes quantum computing won’t become practical until the industry is making chips crammed with upwards of a million error-corrected quantum bits. …
Turning A Million-Qubit Quantum Computing Dream Into Reality was written by Dylan Martin at The Next Platform.
Nvidia is not the only company that has created specialized compute units that are good at the matrix math and tensor processing that underpins AI training and that can be repurposed to run AI inference. …
Intel Pits New Gaudi2 AI Training Engine Against Nvidia GPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There is increasing competition coming at Nvidia in the AI training and inference market, and at the same time, researchers at Google, Cerebras, and SambaNova are showing off the benefits of porting sections of traditional HPC simulation and modeling code to their matrix math engines. …
How Much Of A Premium Will Nvidia Charge For Hopper GPUs? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For the past decade or so, unless enterprises wanted to build more of their own datacenters, the cloud providers were the only game in town to tackle new workloads at massive scale. …
Rethinking The Edge In A Multicloud World was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
In the next few months, Big Blue will launch its entry and midrange Power10 servers, and to be blunt, we are not sure what the HPC and AI angle is going to be for these systems. …
Data Analytics Can Be The Next HPC For IBM Power was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Decades before there were hyperscalers and cloud builders started creating their own variants of compute, storage, and networking for their massive distributed systems, the major HPC centers of the world fostered innovative technologies that may have otherwise died on the vine and never been propagated in the market at large. …
Lawrence Livermore Kicks In Funds Foster Omni-Path Networking was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and other hyperscale public cloud providers started becoming a force in IT almost a decade ago, questions arose about what the future looked like for traditional datacenter hardware providers like Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. …
Embracing The Inevitable Move From Hardware To Services was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Imagine, if you will, that AMD could make as many Epyc CPUs and Instinct GPU accelerators as it wanted at a reasonable yield and cost. …
Can AMD Keep Doubling Its Datacenter Business? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
To build a very large IT business often takes a channel approach, where manufacturers sell a certain amount of their own product – say to the key 10 percent or 20 percent of their accounts – and then offload the rest of the sales job to a third party. …
Playing The Long Game With The Hyperscalers And Clouds was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In an ideal platform cloud, you would not know or care what the underlying hardware was and how it was composed to run your HPC – and now AI – applications. …
Testing Out HPC On Google’s TPU Matrix Engines was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
While chip designer and maker Intel has a new strategy and a new executive team to implement it, it is going to take a long time for changes made last year and this year to be felt and for product and process roadmap changes to put the company into a better competitive situation. …
Intel Adjusts, However Slowly, To New Realities In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sponsored Feature. Enterprises know they want to do machine learning, but they also know they can’t afford to think too long or too hard about it. …
The Hyperscalers Point The Way To Integrated AI Stacks was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
While the hyperscalers have been running AI workloads against vast datasets in production for a decade and a half, many large enterprises have lots of data they think is relevant but they are not at all experiences with AI and the system requirements it has. …
HPE Creates Its Own AI Stack For Large Enterprises was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
High performance systems have a long history of using water cooling, but advancements in semiconductor technology in the 1980s allowed for big iron to have a few decades of using air cooling. …
Cisco Surfs The Liquid Cooling Wave In The Datacenter was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.
When it comes to co-packaged optical interconnects, there are two camps: Lasers in and lasers out. …
With $130 Million In Hand, Ayar Labs Looks To Commercialize Optical I/O was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The nexus of traditional high performance computing and artificial intelligence is a fact, not a theory, and the exascale-class machinery installed in the United States, Europe, China, and Japan will be a showcase for how these two powerful simulation and analytical prediction techniques can be brought together in many different ways. …
China Stretches Another AI Framework To Exascale was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.