AI is too hard for most enterprises to adopt, just like HPC was and continues to be. …
VMware Embraces Nvidia GPUs, DPUs To Drive Enterprise AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
D-Wave today announced another milestone in its quest to keep adding qubits, jumping from the previous generation 2000 qubit device to one with 5000. …
Testing the Limits of a Quantum Hardware Market was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
If you wanted to wrest control of datacenter compute as embodied mainly in the Xeon SP processor away from Intel, there are a number of approaches that you might take. …
Betting On Mass Customization In A Post Moore’s Law World was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Back in October 2019 when the world was normal and it felt perfectly reasonable to look forward to a slew of AI events that would showcase the newest developments from the chip startup world, we talked about Groq and its inference-oriented chip. …
Groq Shares Recipe for TSP Nodes, Systems was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Few of the AI hardware startups that have made it through the first round of reality (roughly 2016 until the present) have managed to navigate the choppy waters without shifting course, sometimes wildly. …
Another Strange Shift for the AI Chip Startup Segment was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
For those who have followed the evolution of supercomputing over the years, the Earth Simulator series of systems has represented the state of the art in workload-oriented design. …
Pure Vector Engines Get GPU Math Help for Next Earth Simulator was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
For Karan Batta, the much-talked-about wide adoption of cloud computing in the HPC space is really like a game of dominos. …
Oracle Makes Its Prognostications For HPC In The Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
If you reduce systems down to their bare essentials, everything exists in those systems to manipulate data in memory, and like human beings, all that really exists for any of us is what is in memory. …
The Era Of Big Memory Is Upon Us was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Can Nvidia jump the regulatory hurdles to capture Arm—and how?; OpenCAPI is the right answer for memory and I/O—so what’s missing?; …
Next Platform TV for September 22, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
When Arm began its pursuit of the datacenter a decade ago, the idea behind offering a low-power architecture as an alternative to Intel and is Xeon product line made sense. …
Arm Expands Its Server Universe With Updated Neoverse Roadmap was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
On today’s program we landed a couple of unplanned themes; namely silicon photonics and its role in both quantum and AI architectures. …
Next Platform TV for September 17, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
On today’s program, some kickoff analysis of the Nvidia/Arm deal; a look at geospatial AI and what it requires in terms of future hardware and frameworks; physics-informed AI and what it means for future simulations and use cases; the Summit supercomputer and the “right” architecture for large-scale, multidisciplinary COVID-19 research; the elements of a hyperconverged data platform; infrastructure as code; much more in today’s interview lineup. …
Next Platform TV for September 15, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
For more than two decades, VMware has made its money sensing the direction that enterprise IT is going and getting there before they do with products to addressing their needs. …
VMware Bets On Enterprises Wanting Kubernetes And Virtualization Mashup was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Companies with high stock valuations are a bit like the central banks of major countries. …
Now Nvidia Is Armed To The Teeth was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Like other technologies, a lot of the databases in use in the world are born out of necessity because some other database hit a performance, capacity, or latency wall – or sometimes all three at the same time. …
Necessary For Adtech Then, Even Moreso For Enterprise Now was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The appetite for compute capacity, and presumably also for storage and networking capacity, in the datacenter of the world might be waning in some sectors of the economy, but thanks to the voracious hunger of the hyperscalers and cloud builders and more than a few large enterprises that need to do more, not less, computing in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, server sales are now consistently at the levels we saw way back in the Dot-Com Boom more than twenty years ago. …
Server Hunger Is Stronger Than Economic Uncertainty was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It must have been something in the cosmic ether.
Apopros of nothing except the need to fill a blank page with something interesting back when we were analyzing IBM’s second quarter financials and considering the options that Big Blue has with the “Cirrus” Power10 systems it will be launching about a year from now, we did a thought experiment about what it would mean if IBM started to believe in big iron machines again. …
The Memory Area Network At The Heart Of IBM’s Power10 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Whenever enterprise server buyers are shopping, they are not just comparing the possible options on the market today against each other. …
Making HCI Hay While the Sun Shines was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A Linux distro natively tuned for containers (and open source); FPGAs in Space; funding for spin qubits (among other quantum tech); the IO500 and evaluating large-scale storage systems; an automotive company’s AI supercomputer; much more…
Next Platform TV for September 3, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
For about a decade, Intel has sold GPUs, in recent years with its integrated CPU-GPU devices used in client and entry servers. …
Intel Puts Its Xe GPU Stakes In The Ground was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.