There are many different schools of thought when it comes to databases, which is one of the reasons that we launch our inaugural event focused solely on database technologies this year. …
The Once And Future Federated Database was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
IBM knows how to adapt to an ever-changing enterprise tech landscape. …
Big Blue Shines A Light On The Future Of Tape Storage was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
About 15 years ago, as Swami Sivasubramanian was making his way from grad school back into the working world, he saw that developers and builders at enterprises were being held back not by their skills or their ideas, but by their inability to access the technology needed to bring those ideas to the fore. …
Learning To Make The Machine Part Of AI Invisible And Easy was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
There is nothing quite like the open source community to demonstrate the principles of freedom, democracy, and meritocracy – and the difficulties of bringing those principles to bear and keeping them pure when money is involved. …
Nobody Owns Linux, But You Can Pay For It – Or Not was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Since a big chunk of the IBM HPC team moved over to Lenovo as part of the System x division being acquired by Lenovo back in late 2014, which coincided when we started The Next Platform, we have made a habit of talking to Scott Tease, executive director of high performance computing at Lenovo to take the pulse of the volume segment of the HPC space. …
Taking The Pulse Of The Core HPC Market was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Peter Ungaro, senior vice president and general manager of HPC and mission critical solutions at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and longtime CEO of supercomputer Cray before HPE bought the company for $1.3 billion in 2019, spoke with The Next Platform earlier this year about the dawning exascale era the world is about to step into. …
HPC Does A Cannonball Into HPE’s GreenLake was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Our increasingly networked and compute-intensive lives is driving the server business, and despite the cornucopia of fear, uncertainty, and doubt that spans the globe, the appetite for compute as expressed in shiny racks of servers or metal pizza boxes or an occasional tower sitting in a closet or under a desk continues despite the kind of consumption we have not seen since the dot-com boom. …
Server Spending Holds Up Despite Every Damned Thing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Antonio Peña, senior researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, and his team in Spain have demonstrated how – without code modification – large data centers can increase application performance while saving megawatts of power per day plus run 100X to 10,000X larger AI inference jobs that can handle encrypted data. …
Boosting Memory Capacity And Performance While Saving Megawatts was written by Rob Farber at The Next Platform.
In a data-centric tech field that is shaped by emerging trends and technologies like artificial intelligence, analytics, greater mobility, and the Internet of Things (IoT), “optimization” has become a marching order for hardware and software makers. …
Bending The Hardware To Fit The Workload was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
We don’t use the first person a lot here at The Next Platform, but I am going to make an exception. …
The Increasing Hybrid Vigor Of AWS Is Historical was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Surviving in an ever-evolving and fast-changing industry like IT requires companies to understand the landscape, see where the trends are going, and be willing to adapt to what’s happening in front of them. …
Nutanix Stretches Across The Hybrid Clouds was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
That is not a typo in the title. We did not mean to say GPU in title above, or even make a joke that in hybrid CPU_GPU systems, the CPU is more of a serial processing accelerator with a giant slow DDR4 cache for GPUs in hybrid supercomputers these days – therefore making the CPU a kind of accelerator for the GPU. …
One Way To Bring DPU Acceleration To Supercomputing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are foundational to many of the modernization efforts that enterprises are embracing, from leveraging them to more quickly analyze the mountains of data they’re generating and automating operational processes to running the advanced applications – like natural language processing, speech and image recognition, and machine vision – needed by a broad array of industries, from financial services, agriculture, healthcare and automotive. …
Lenovo Spreads The AI Message Far And Wide was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Cisco Systems may still be the biggest supplier of switches and routers in general, but it has long since been surpassed by Broadcom when it comes to suppling the silicon that does the switching itself and sometimes even a little bit of routing in the datacenter in particular. …
Broadcom Widens And Smartens Switch Chip Lineup was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Many of the technologists at AMD who are driving the Epyc CPU and Instinct GPU roadmaps as well as the $35 billion acquisition of FPGA maker Xilinx have long and deep experience in the high performance computing market that is characterized by the old school definition of simulation and modeling workloads running on federated or clustered systems. …
The Redemption Of AMD In HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
No matter what kind of traditional HPC simulation and modeling system you have, no matter what kind of fancy new machine learning AI system you have, IBM has an appliance that it wants to sell you to help make these systems work better – and work better together if you are mixing HPC and AI. …
Injecting Machine Learning And Bayesian Optimization Into HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The push by established datacenter tech vendors to get into the as-a-service game has accelerated in recent months, fueled in part by the COVID-19 pandemic and the need by organizations to more quickly embrace cloud services to help them adapt to the suddenly shifted business model that features a more widely distributed workforce, which brings a truckload of security and management issues. …
Pure Expands Its As-A-Service Playbook was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
For more than three decades, researchers have used a particular simulation method for molecular dynamics called Ab initio molecular dynamics, or AIMD, which has proven itself to be the method most accurate for analyzing how atoms and molecules move and interact over a fixed time period. …
Gordon Bell Prize Winners Leverage Machine Learning For Molecular Dynamics was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
From the time Kubernetes was born in the labs at Google by engineers Joe Beda, Brendan Burns, and Craig McLuckie and then contributed to the open source community, it has become the de facto orchestration platform for containers, enabling easier development, scaling and movement of modern applications between on-premises datacenters and the cloud and between the multiple clouds – public and private – that enterprises are embracing. …
Taking Kubernetes Up To The Next Level was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
To one way of thinking about it, this is the best of times among the worst of times for Nvidia. …
Defying Supply Constraints, Nvidia Turns In Its Best Quarter Ever was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.