At The Next AI Platform event on May 9 in San Jose, we brought together a wide range of people leading the charge throughout the AI infrastructure stack. …
I/O Bubbles to Top of AI Infrastructure Conversations was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Storage is no longer an afterthought when it comes to systems of any reasonable scale. …
In the Age of AI, Storage is No Longer an Afterthought was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Earlier this week we focused on the entry of FPGA maker, Achronix, and their strategy to tackle the high end of this market with a datacenter-focused, 7nm device expected to emerge later this year. …
Rerouting the Conventional Datacenter FPGA was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
When the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) is deployed in the next decade, along side it will be a supercomputer tasked to process the deluge of astronomical data that the instrument will collect from the skies. …
Designing the SKA Supercomputer Platform was written by Michael Feldman at .
The commercial realization of artificial intelligence has companies scrambling to develop the next big hardware technology breakthrough for this multi-billion dollar market. …
The Silicon Photonics Key to Building Better Neural Networks was written by Michael Feldman at .
When it comes to competition at the high end of the FPGA market, Xilinx and Altera (now part of Intel) are the two monolithic players, capturing the lions share of use cases. …
FPGA Upstart Takes Careful Aim at High-End Market was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
We have published a number of stories lately that talk about the innovative uses of Intel’s 3D XPoint Optane persistent memory modules, which are a key component of the company’s “Cascade Lake” Xeon SP systems and which are also becoming a foundational technology in clustered storage based on NVM-Express over Fabrics interconnects from a number of storage upstarts. …
Those Without Persistent Memory Are Fated To Repeat It was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has reached the top of the HPC sector in an unconventional way, but one that could prove truly transformative for its new acquisition, legendary supercomputer maker Cray. …
With Cray Deal, HPE Finally Enters The HPC Big Leagues was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Hailo, an AI startup based in Israel, has released its initial chip that the company claims is “the world’s top performing deep learning processor,” with the Hailo-8 chip claimed to deliver 26 tera-operations pers second (TOPS), while consuming only a few watts of power. …
Startup Claims Performance Leadership With New AI Edge Chip was written by Michael Feldman at .
While exascale systems, even at the single precision computational capability commonly used in the oil and gas industry, will cost on the order of $250 million, that cost pales in comparison to the capital outlay of drilling exploratory deep water wells, which can cost $100 million a pop. …
DUG Sets Foundation For Exascale HPC Utility With Xeon Phi was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
In the fast-paced world of algorithmic trading, speed is of the essence – not just for the execution of the trades themselves, but also for developing the trading models that are becoming obsolete in increasingly shorter timeframes. …
GPUs Set High Water Mark for Financial Trading Algorithm was written by Michael Feldman at .
Five years ago, Lenovo spent almost $4.5 billion to buy IBM’s X86 server business and Google’s Motorola mobile phone unit, moves that instantly made the company a top-tier player in the datacenter and more competitive in the lucrative global smartphone market. …
Lenovo Puts An Edge On Infrastructure was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Intel’s struggles to get its 10 nanometer processors out the door has forced the company to do some serious soul-searching. …
Intel Gives Moore’s Law A Makeover was written by Michael Feldman at .
Sometimes here in the 21st century, cloudy means good.
Like most of its counterparts in the IT industry, SAP sees much of its future and that of its HANA in-memory database platform being in the cloud. …
The Cloudy Future Of SAP HANA was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
The thrust of much of the message that Red Hat was putting out last week at the Red Hat Summit 2019 conference in Boston revolved around multicloud and hybrid cloud environments – adopting them, deploying them, and managing them. …
Making The OpenShift To The Hybrid Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
It is difficult to talk about AI at scale without invoking the decades of work that has happened in the supercomputing trenches. …
Storage Underpins Interplay Between HPC and AI was written by Michael Feldman at .
With any operating system, there is a tension between leaving something that is stable and that works alone and adding new features to keep it relevant. …
The Tension That Drives Innovation In Linux was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has not been a stranger to traditional high performance computing or the emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, and data analytics that are driving rapid changes in the datacenter. …
HPE Starts To Pull AI Levers With BlueData was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
The CPU does not rule the computing roost when it comes to machine learning training, but it still has a role when it comes to machine learning inference and for other kinds of data analytics related to machine learning. …
The CPU Still Matters In The AI Stack was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The competition for the compute engines in hybrid HPC and AI supercomputer systems is heating up, and it is beginning to look a bit like back to the future with Cray on the rise and AMD also revitalized. …
Cray, AMD Tag Team On 1.5 Exaflops “Frontier” Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .