There is a rumor going around that a certain hyperscaler is going to be augmenting its GPU-based machine learning training and will be adopting Intel’s Nervana Neural Network Processor (NNP) for at least some of its workloads. … “How Facebook Might Find Nervana For Machine Learning Training”
How Facebook Might Find Nervana For Machine Learning Training was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
In fact, a more salacious title might have said it will not be threat in most of our career spans, if in our lifetimes at all. … “Quantum No Threat to Supercomputing as We Know It”
Quantum No Threat to Supercomputing as We Know It was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
If you want to see what real competition might look like at some point in the future of the server racket, look no further than the Ethernet switch market, where switch ASICs and the companies that build switches alike have to fight for every dollar and make it up in volume every year without pause. … “Relentless Competition Drives Down Ethernet Switch Costs”
Relentless Competition Drives Down Ethernet Switch Costs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
As the center of gravity shifts from compute to data, architectures are responding by moving the former a lot closer to the latter. … “Computational Storage Takes Data Locality To The Extreme”
Computational Storage Takes Data Locality To The Extreme was written by Michael Feldman at .
When it comes to supercomputing, Singapore is certainly not the first country that comes to mind. … “Singapore To Boost Its Supercomputing Capacity Ten-Fold”
Singapore To Boost Its Supercomputing Capacity Ten-Fold was written by Michael Feldman at .
At this point in the history of the IT business, it is a foregone conclusion that accelerated computing, perhaps in a more diverse manner than many of us anticipated, is the future both in the datacenter and at the edge. … “The Still Expanding Market For GPU Compute”
The Still Expanding Market For GPU Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
It wasn’t so long ago that only supercomputing centers had to resort to fancy cooling technology to keep their systems running smoothly and at peak performance. … “Dealing With Density In The Datacenter And Beyond”
Dealing With Density In The Datacenter And Beyond was written by Michael Feldman at .
As one of the dominant hyperscalers in the world, Microsoft is out there on the cutting edge, driving efficiencies on every front it can in server, storage, switching, software, and datacenter design. … “On The Hot Seat In The Hyperscale Datacenter”
On The Hot Seat In The Hyperscale Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
In the modern distributed computing world, which is getting ever more disaggregated and some might say discombobulated, as every day passes, the architecture of the network in the datacenter is arguably the most important factor in determining if applications will perform well or not. … “How To Benefit From Facebook’s New Network Fabric”
How To Benefit From Facebook’s New Network Fabric was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
When Facebook open sourced the hardware and datacenter designs of its very first homegrown datacenter in Prineville, Oregon nearly eight years ago, creating the Open Compute Project, it was an act of enlightened self-interest. …
Open Compute Takes Root Outside Of Hypercalers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
In a wide-ranging keynote address that ran nearly three hours at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang talked up the company’s successes and new products across its graphics, robotics, and AI and HPC lineups. …
Data Science Sparks The Gap Between HPC And Hyperscale was written by Michael Feldman at .
As expected, Intel will be the prime contractor for the first exascale supercomputer in the United States, which Argonne National Laboratory expects to be operational and capable of sustained exaflops performance by the end of 2021. …
Intel To Take On OpenPower For Exascale Dominance With Aurora was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
To understand how far natural language processing (NLP) has progressed in the past decade and how fast it is evolving now, we need to update Alan Turing’s thought experiment on how to test an AI for conversational intelligence to a 21st Century context and methodology. …
Modernizing The Turing Test For 21st Century AI was written by Paul Teich at .
When Intel starts shipping its “Cascade Lake” Xeons in volume soon, it will mark a turning point in the server space. …
Researchers Scrutinize Optane Memory Performance was written by Michael Feldman at .
This week Intel unveiled Compute Express Link (CXL), the chipmaker’s own cache coherent accelerator interconnect that it is grooming to become the industry standard. …
Intel Offers Up Yet Another Accelerator Interconnect Technology was written by Michael Feldman at .
The hyperscalers and cloud builders of the world build things that often look and feel like supercomputers if you squint your eyes a little, but if you look closely, you can often see some pretty big differences. …
Inside Facebook’s Future Machine Learning Platforms was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
If we are talking about infrastructure it might seem obvious to take a systems-level view. …
AI Infrastructure Needs Systems Level Thinkers was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
At the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, Professor Joe Oefelein, from the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech, is heading up a team of researchers working to solve the multifaceted grand challenge of simulating turbulent reactive flows in propulsion and power systems. …
Summit Simulations to Change How we Drive and Explore Space was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The edge is getting a lot of attention these days, given the fast-growing amount of data that is being generated by the proliferation of devices and systems located outside of the traditional core datacenter. …
The Evolving Infrastructure at the Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Among the emerging themes for 2019 in the datacenter, one of them is that NVM-Express is finding its place in the storage hierarchy. …
NVM-Express Storage Goes Mainstream Over Ethernet Fabrics was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .