With performance comparable to the Nvidia V100 GPU, a common accelerator in HPC but better energy consumption numbers and memory bandwidth potential, Graphcore can turn heads in supercomputing.
Graphcore IPU Put Through the Supercomputing Paces was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
It is never easy to blaze new trails in IT infrastructure due to specific, unique workload requirements. …
Optimization for Real-Time AI and Analytics Starts in the Datacenter was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
As we pointed out recently, there has been a certain amount of tumult and change in recent months in the Arm server processor space. …
Ampere Steams Ahead With Arm Server Chips was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In addition to covering momentum in the FPGA market overall, from the first inklings that compute acceleration could be a large opportunity to recent acquisitions of the two largest FPGA device makers by Intel and AMD, we have kept an eye on FPGA startups. …
What’s Next for FPGA Maker Achronix Post-IPO? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
One of the great things about the database market is that there are many different kinds of data and the problems that need to be addressed to store, organize, and query that data are also increasing with the speed and amount of data stored. …
Third Time Is The Charm For Nebula Graph Database was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
To catch a glimpse of the future of what memory devices and approaches will dominate the AI-centric datacenter, there are few better forecasters than Evangelos Eleftheriou. …
Storage Pioneer on What the Future Holds for In-Memory AI was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
For those are the intersection of AI hardware and software, the open source Apache TVM effort is already well known and used among a number of chipmakers as well as developers. …
A Skeleton Key for AI Hardware Experimentation was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
What a strange server CPU world we live in. The dozen or so biggest customers in the world command something on the order of 45 percent of the server CPU shipments, but significantly lower share of the revenue because of the volume discounts they can command, and they not only shape the product rollouts, their opinions can kill off processor SKUs long before we even know about them on announcement day. …
The Impending AMD Milan Versus Intel Ice Lake Server Showdown was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you want to understand datacenter infrastructure and how the market for wares is changing, it helps to start with an absolute, top-down, all-encompassing view that brings together all server, storage, and switching revenues into a single bucket, eliminating the overlaps that occur when talking about these three different categories separately. …
Datacenter Infrastructure Is Still Only Partly Cloudy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There is plenty of potential to upset traditional storage via leveraging on-board NVMe devices and while the competition is thick and fierce, there are a few companies that are already standing out in 2021. …
What’s Behind One NVMe Storage Company’s Meteoric Rise was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Hot on the heels of our overview of the state of the Arm server CPU landscape yesterday, chip maker Qualcomm, which dabbled in Arm server chips a few years back, announced that it was acquiring startup Nuvia for its Arm chips and design team. …
Qualcomm Probably Not Pursuing Arm Servers With Nuvia Purchase was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Silicon photonics has been proving its worth in telco and communications but there is a much brighter opportunity photonics-based computing. …
A Five-Year Challenge Roadmap for Photonics-Based Computing was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Running a company of any size is the hardest thing you will ever do. …
Finally, The Right Pilot At The Intel Helm was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Every large IT shop has its own unique I/O demands; from mixed workloads to high volume or velocity of data and all the points in between. …
Blazing New Trails in Storage for Large-Scale Recommendation Systems was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
IT organizations are funny creatures, indeed. On the one paw, they are eternally optimistic about the prospects for new technologies, and on the other paw, they are extremely resistant to change because of the economic and technical risks that change requires. …
Hope Springs Eternal For Arm Servers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For those who follow supercomputing, weather forecasting is one area to watch for systems that are designed for maximum capability. …
The Weather Company Raises GPU, Storage Forecasts was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
While this new year might not mark the moment when the first drugs are discovered via molecular dynamics simulations running on a full-scale quantum, there are several signs that a number of important collaborations between the few quantum vendors and major biotech companies are announced. …
2021 Could Be the Year of Quantum Drug Discovery was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
While the related topics of fault tolerance and resiliency do not garner the same attention as performance and efficiency, being able to recover from and work around failures, especially as applications take over ever-large and increasingly heterogenous machines, is more important than ever. …
Who Shoulders the Supercomputing Resiliency Burden? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Software may be eating the world, as Marc Andreessen correctly asserted nearly a decade ago, but some parts of the world are crunchier than others and take some time for the hardware to be smashed open and for software to flow in and out of it. …
Software Is Eating Every Layer Of The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Medical imaging technologies are invaluable tools in the diagnosis and treatment of patients, allowing healthcare professionals to non-invasively see what lies deep inside the body, identify any disease and/or abnormalities, and determine appropriate treatments. …
The Power of AR and AI in Medical Context was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.