Everybody wants to build a platform, hence the name of this publication. …
Nvidia Expands AI Stack, Stretches From Cloud To Co-Location was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The era of vector supercomputing might sound like ancient history to some but it’s still deeply rooted in major commercial and government institutions. …
U.S. Military Looks to NEC to Salvage (Way) Legacy Codes was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The hybrid cloud is convincing established players that they need to play on both sides of the net, in the cloud (as well as the edge) and on premises. …
HPE Builds Lighthouse Platform On GreenLake Services was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The Fugaku supercomputer, based on the Arm-driven A64FX processor and custom Fujitsu Tofu-D fabric, has been proven architecturally on a number of HPC and large-scale AI benchmarks and has drawn considerable attention among the supercomputing set. …
U.S. Institutions Put Fujitsu A64FX Through the Paces was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
In a world where Moore’s Law is slowing and hardware has to be increasingly co-designed with the system software stack and the applications that run above it, the matrix of possible combinations of hardware is getting wider and deeper. …
Google Does The Server Math With Tau Cloud Instances was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Lenovo became a powerhouse in the HPC and supercomputer spaces back in 2014, when it bought IBM’s System x server division for $2.1 billion in a deal that also saw it license storage and system management software from Big Blue. …
Lenovo Gives SuperMUC-NG Supercomputer An Upgrade was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The amount of data being created is continuing to rise exponentially and it’s coming in all shapes and sizes and from myriad locations. …
Think Locally About Data Management, But Act Globally was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center (EPPC) is up and running with its Cerebras CS-1 waferscale system and is already working with European companies in biomedical and cybersecurity arenas in addition to its own research into different programming and AI models and projects in natural language processing and genome-wide association studies. …
EPCC Kicking Tires on New CS-1 AI System was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
There’s an AI unicorn startup you might not have even heard of. …
Preferred Networks Becoming Japan’s Industrial AI Powerhouse was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
While a lot of software for creating and managing scale comes out of supercomputing centers, hyperscalers, and the largest public cloud builders, there is still plenty of innovation being done by people who need to tackle scale outside of these upper echelon organizations. …
Forget Mesos And OpenStack, Hashi Stack Is The New Next Platform was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We said this a long time ago, and we are going to say it again now. …
Intel Braces For DPU Hit, Awaits Jevon’s Paradox Bounce was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Deepak Patil knows all about the cloud. For the last third of his more than 15 years with Microsoft, Patil was one of the key figures behind the launch of Azure, the enterprise software giant’s public cloud. …
Dell: Living On The Edge With Its Head In The Clouds was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
There are some unique developments afoot at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), which stands to reason for the only HPC site to be housed in a former church. …
Cortus Hopes to Stake Early RISC-V HPC Claim was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Businesses are judged quarter on quarter and year on year, but you have to look at the long haul and the flow of all business over time to really judge properly. …
Server Budgets On The Mend As Pandemic Tries To End was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
PROMO Today’s AI and HPC systems can encompass 1,000s of CPUs and GPUs, all drawing on vast amounts of memory and storage. …
Flaky I/O Getting You Down? This Panel Promises Some Light Relief was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
The tight linkage between chip designs and chip manufacturing processes has caused its shared of havoc in the IT sector, and it is getting worse as Moore’s Law has slowed and Dennard scaling died a decade ago. …
Why IBM Is Suing GlobalFoundries Over Chip Roadmap Failures was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Moore’s Law is not just a simple rule of thumb about transistor counts, it’s an economic, technical, and developmental force—and one strong enough to push some of the largest chipmakers to future-proof architectural approaches. …
AMD on Why Chiplets—And Why Now was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
If the workload-specific datacenter dominates in the near term, it could be RISC-V’s time to shine. …
AI Is RISC-V’s Trojan Horse into the Datacenter was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Last week, we introduced the Perlmutter supercomputer, the next-gen system at NERSC that will likely secure the #5 spot on the Top 500 list of the world’s most powerful machines. …
A 35 Petabyte All-Flash Balancing Act was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
When Gajen Kandiah took over as CEO of Hitachi Vantara a year ago after almost 15 years with IT services company Cognizant, he found a company with a deep history in the data storage space, growing strength in services and a presence in the fast-growing edge computing realm. …
Pulling All The Pieces Together at Hitachi Vantara was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.