Europe is known for taking its own routes in almost every segment and supercomputing is no different. …
Europe’s Evolving View of “Continental Exascale” was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED The need for faster, larger, more accurate design cycles, along with the performance and cost advantages of GPUs, are all driving the next generation of CFD applications forward. …
The Future of Large-Scale CFD was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Scanning through Power10’s detailed announcement material, I’ve seen a lot architecturally that intrigues an avid reader of The Next Platform like myself, but one item – one that IBM calls “Memory Inception” and IBM-based techie material calls enablement for a “memory cluster” – really caught my eye. …
The Power Of Power10’s Memory Inception Clustering was written by Mark Funk at The Next Platform.
While involving AI/ML in the complex process of insurance claims now might be piecemeal, the future is bright for insurers to speed time to claim resolution by using image-based data and machine learning models to understand the scope of damage to vehicles or eventually, entire geographic regions. …
Next-Gen Insurers Are Going to Need (Way) More AI Horsepower was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Much has changed at online retail giant, Etsy, since 2015 when we talked to the company’s senior VP of technical operations about their adherence to their on-prem datacenters and database-driven approach to handling exponential growth. …
How Etsy Crafts AI/ML Cost, Optimization Balance was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Managing MySQL databases in the cloud is no easy chore, according to Steve Zivanic, vice president of database and autonomous services at Oracle. …
Pushing Cloud MySQL Performance The Oracle Way was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Commissioned In just about any situation where you are making capital investments in equipment, you are worried about three things: performance, price/performance, and total cost of ownership. …
Why The MLPerf Benchmark Is Good For AI, And Good For You was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The automotive industry has shown keen and early in quantum computing over the last several years, beginning most notably with Volkswagen, which rolled out a traffic simulation system with its hardware partner, D-Wave. …
Quantum Takes the Scenic Route in Automotive was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
As Google’s batch sizes for AI training continue to skyrocket, with some batch sizes ranging from over 100k to one million, the company’s research arm is looking at ways to improve everything from efficiency, scalability, and even privacy for those whose data is used in large-scale training runs. …
Google Chips Away at Problems at “Mega-Batch” Scale was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
In this era of hyperscaler and cloud builder titans, their seven of whom account for about half of the IT infrastructure bought in the world, it is important to remember the importance of niches and the vital role that other makers of systems, other sellers of systems, and other renters of systems all play in the IT ecosystem. …
The Challenge – And Opportunity – Of Being A Niche AI Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Exascale-class energy efficiency cannot be defined by a simple number. Although Green500 energy efficiency HPC rankings provide a one-shot view into performance/efficiency, the complex interplay between large system operating systems, real-world applications, and the various tuning capabilities is worth digging into. …
HPC Efficiency Gurus Grapple with AMD’s RAPL was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
As everybody in the world now knows, there are downsides to just-in-time manufacturing during a global pandemic. …
Despite Supply Chain Woes, Arista Networks Does Record Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Scientists have unlocked many atomic secrets through physics research that studies particle interactions such as quarks, gluons, protons, and neutrons within the nucleus of an atom. …
Aurora Exascale System To Advance Dark Matter Research was written by Linda Barney at The Next Platform.
Cash used to be king, and now market capitalization is. That’s one of the reasons that the biggest players in the semiconductor arena are snapping up competitors, startups, and suppliers in adjacent chip markets at an increasing pace and with very large bags of “money.” …
Marvell Adds Hyperscale Ethernet With Innovium Acquisition was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Machine learning inference models have been running on X86 server processors from the very beginning of the latest – and by far the most successful – AI revolution, and the techies that know both hardware and software down to the minutest detail at the hyperscalers, cloud builders, and semiconductor manufacturers have been able to tune the software, jack the hardware, and retune for more than a decade. …
Ampere Computing Buys An AI Inference Performance Leap was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Software – and the data it produces – is the engine that is driving IT these days. …
Kubernetes Expands From Containers To Infrastructure Management was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
What bit of technology got us through the pandemic, was available for scaling up at just the right time to keep a pretty sizeable chunk of our economy working, redefined education on a moment’s notice, and now is redefining for the world the entire notion of work? …
Thought Experiment: How Did Zoom’s Infrastructure Keep Us Connected? was written by Mark Funk at The Next Platform.
We read a lot of market data here at The Next Platform, and we do our share of prognosticating and do even more riffing off the prognostications of others. …
Spending On Cloud Outposts Is Climbing The Hockey Stick was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE), the agency with the most sway in how the largest supercomputers are designed and built, has been looking beyond CMOS since well before exascale systems were on the horizon. …
U.S. DoE Pumps Another $73M into Quantum Future was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED Sometimes, bad things turn into excellent opportunities that can utterly transform markets. …
AMD 3rd Gen Epyc CPUs Put Intel Xeon SPs On Ice In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.