Even before the coronavirus pandemic hit, Intel, the dominant maker of processors for servers on the planet, was rejiggering its product roadmaps behind the scenes in conjunction with its largest OEM partners as well the hyperscalers and large public cloud builders that drive about a third of its revenues these days. …
Taking A Deep Dive Into “Cooper Lake” Xeon SP Processors was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Java turned 25 years old in May, marking a quarter of a century in which it has consistently been one of the most widely used programming languages. …
Making Java Play Nice With Kubernetes was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.
Data growth is the one exponential we can all relate to and will continue to grow into the future. …
Getting Unstructured Data Under Control was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The composable systems trend has taken root in some of the world’s largest datacenters, most notably among hyperscale companies, but has been less quick to catch on in traditional high performance computing (HPC) environments. …
Composing ’Expanse’: Building Blocks for Future HPC was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The external storage market – like most sectors of the IT industry – took a beating in the first quarter, thanks in large part to the novel coronavirus pandemic. …
Pure Storage’s Strategy Chief Talks Flash, NVMe, And The Competition was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
System architects that live in the Seattle area who don’t want to uproot their lives and move to California or Texas or New York or maybe possibly Illinois or Oregon or even overseas to Japan or China have a fairly small number of job opportunities. …
Great Scott: Spanning Supercomputing And Clouds was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The coronavirus pandemic has obviously had an impact on spending trends in the IT market. …
HPE Further Blurs The Storage Line Between On Premises And The Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Moving its eponymous NoSQL document database to the cloud and running it as a managed service has been a watershed event for MongoDB, which like a number of its peers in the broader database market are growing at the expense of relational databases that can’t scale as well for certain workloads. …
The Ever-Embiggening Humongous Document Database was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sometimes, to get the proper perspective, you have to take the long view. …
Server Spending Measures Aspiration As Much As Oomph was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Every IT supplier has cloudy envy. And not just because utility-style pricing has become normalized by the big public clouds, but because they want to have a more regular, annuity-like revenue stream rather than always chasing the next deal. …
The Pursuit Of Storage That Spans The Clouds was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Long gone are the days when high performance computing was limited solely to traditional simulation and modeling at academic and government research labs. …
A New Era In High Performance Computing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Dan Stanzione has a lot of compute power at his fingertips. …
Attacking The Novel Coronavirus With Supercomputing Cycles was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Going from sequence data based on millions of lines of short DNA fragments to the final, simplified report for clinicians is no small undertaking from IT standpoint. …
Building Bulletproof Bioinformatics Storage was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Users of relational database management systems are accustomed to sub-second response for relatively simple online transaction processing, and have been able to enjoy those zippy responses for decades. …
Presto Is The Third Time Charm For Federated Databases was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
While Xilinx and Intel are the dominant suppliers of discrete FPGAs and related system on chip designs that have FPGAs at their heart, they are by no means the only providers of programmable logic in the datacenter. …
Not All FPGAs Need To Be Discrete was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
With 5.4 petaflops of peak performance crammed into 760 compute nodes, that is a lot of computing capability in a small space generating a considerable amount of heat. …
Cooling Magma Is A Challenge That Lawrence Livermore Can Take On was written by Ken Strandberg at The Next Platform.
It is common knowledge in the manufacturing sector of the economy that many of the companies that should have deployed HPC simulation and modeling applications one or two decades ago to help with product design, among other tasks, did not do so. …
Avoiding The Missing Middle With AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you want to build a successful hardware ecosystem around a chip architecture that has recently been open sources, as the Power chip instruction set was last August, then it probably makes a lot of sense to put someone at the help of the project who has deep and broad experience participating in the open source software ecosystem. …
OpenPower Puts Open Source Software Guru In Charge was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When you have 54.2 billion transistors to play with, you can pack a lot of different functionality into a computing device, and this is precisely what Nvidia has done with vigor and enthusiasm with the new “Ampere” GA100 GPU aimed at acceleration in the datacenter. …
Diving Deep Into The Nvidia Ampere GPU Architecture was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As the name of this publication suggests, we are system thinkers and we like to watch the evolution of a collection of tools into a platform. …
The GPU Database Evolves Into An Analytics Platform was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.