Just because Intel is no longer interested in being a prime contractor on the largest supercomputing deals in the United States and Europe – China and Japan are drawing their own roadmaps and building their own architectures – does not mean that Intel does not have aspirations in HPC and AI supercomputing. …
Intel Aims For Zettaflops By 2027, Pushes Aurora Above 2 Exaflops was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Here is a moment that Lisa Su, the chief executive officer who has lead the team that brought AMD back into the datacenter with the vigor the market needs, has been waiting six years for. …
AMD Datacenter Sales Break Through $1 Billion In Q3 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Native CPU and accelerator architectures that have been in play on China’s previous large systems have been stepped up to make China first to exascale on two fronts. …
China Has Already Reached Exascale–On Two Separate Systems was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The supply chain is holding back the server business, and not just in the way you are thinking about it. …
Intel Back To Playing The Long Game, Not The Wrong Game was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Over the last twenty years, memory has risen from 10% of the semiconductor market to almost 30%, a trend that is expected to continue, propelled by compute at the edge all the way up to datacenter. …
Micron Urges Government Investment with R&D Spend was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Intel recently announced that High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) will be available on select “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon SP processors and will provide the CPU backbone for the “Aurora” exascale supercomputer to be sited at Argonne National Laboratory. …
How High-Bandwidth Memory Will Break Performance Bottlenecks was written by Rob Farber at The Next Platform.
When we hear about the massive GPT-3 language model, it is natural to assume it is open source and ready for the taking. …
Getting Around the GPT-3 Waitlist, The Hard(Ware) Way was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Intel has spent the past nine months reorganizing itself in the wake of Pat Gelsinger becoming its chief executive officer in January, including new groups and divisions and new managers for them that was revealed in June. …
Prime Contracting No Longer One Of Intel’s HPC Aspirations was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The chip cold war between China and the United States continues to heat up like a processor with a heat sink that it is a little too small. …
Alibaba Rumored To Enter The Arm Server Chip Race was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
So many of Google’s technology developments have had major impacts in the commercial world but the company’s impact on scientific computing has been far less pronounced. …
Why JAX Could Be the Next Platform for HPC-AI was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Dell Technologies, since its founding 37 years ago, has been about infrastructure, from the servers, networking systems and storage appliances that populate enterprise datacenters to the corporate clients that are designed to make employees more productive. …
Dell Ties Storage To Kubernetes, Sharpens Edge Strategy was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Every startup has to be both flexible and focused, and it is tough to balance the two. …
Networking A Way Into The Datacenter From The Outside In was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED It is only natural the world’s top supercomputing sites in climate and weather modeling should be leading the charge for more efficient, sustainable, and green datacenter practices. …
Lenovo Neptune Makes Weather Supercomputers Cool Again was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Thomas Kurian’s arrival at Google Cloud in early 2019 after more than 22 years at Oracle marked a significant shift in Google’s thinking, putting an emphasis on expanding its cloud’s business use by enterprises as the key to making up ground on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure in the booming global cloud market. …
Google Muscles Its Way Into Datacenters, Attacks From The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Ex-Nervana Systems engineers made the jump from a hardware-centric approach to efficient training to pushing better insight into optimization of models and systems. …
Former Nervana Leads Target Optimal Training Configurations was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Search engine and cloud computing juggernaut Google is hosting its Google Cloud Next ’21 conference this week, and one of the more interesting things that the company unveiled is several layers of software that makes its Spanner globally distributed relational database look and feel like the popular open source PostgreSQL relational database. …
Google Opens Up Spanner Database With PostgreSQL Interface was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Here are two things you don’t see every day in the realm of scientific and technical high performance computing. …
Eni Chooses Utility Pricing For New HPC4+ Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We are strong believers in disaggregation and composability here at The Next Platform, and we think that eventually the tyranny of the physical confines and configurations of motherboard will be over. …
VMware Stretches ESXi To Be A Disaggregated Memory Hypervisor was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In the history of defense technology contracting, two companies continue to loom large: IBM and Raytheon.
Raytheon, IBM Partner for Quantum in Defense, Aerospace was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Clear Ventures managed to stay out of the AI chip startup investment fray of the last several years. …
A Clear View on the AI Hardware Mirage was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.