Author Archives: Jeffrey Burt
Author Archives: Jeffrey Burt
The expanded lineup of AMD’s 4th generation “Genoa” Epyc server chips – built atop “Zen 4” core and some with the chip maker’s L3-boosting 3D V-Cache – unveiled at a high-profile event in San Francisco this week is quickly making its way into the cloud. …
The Big Clouds Get First Dibs On AMD “Genoa” Chips was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
OpenStack, the venerable open source cloud controller born in 2010 out projects pulled together by Rackspace Hosting and NASA, continues to push on despite its death being predicted myriad times over the past several years. …
Reports Of OpenStack’s Death Greatly Exaggerated was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
When three years ago Dell rolled out its Apex initiative, the massive IT supplier was joining a growing list of tech companies like HPE, Lenovo, and Cisco who were adapting to a rapidly expanding multicloud world by making their product portfolios available in a cloud-like, as-a-service model. …
In The Multicloud World, The Data’s The Thing was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
A few years ago, DirectData Networks gave us a hint at the tectonic-like shifts that were emerging in datacenters at enterprises and high-end research institutions and were shaping the strategy of a company that had made its name in HPC with its parallel file system technology. …
Boosting AI Storage With QLC Flash And Deduplication was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Large language models can be fun, as shown by the wild popularity of ChatGPT since OpenAI tossed the generative AI chatbot into the public sphere in late November and let people have at it. …
AI Is Coming In The Front Door To Get The Back Office was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
In the United States, the first step on the road to exascale HPC systems began with a series of workshops in 2007. …
The Roads To Zettascale And Quantum Computing Are Long And Winding was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The tech world is awash with generative AI, which for a company like Nvidia, is a good thing. …
There’s Still A Long Way To Go With Generative AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Companies have been working for years to pull together block, file, and object storage under a single umbrella, giving enterprises that are at times dealing with petabytes of data spread across datacenters, the cloud, and the edge a simpler way to manage, organize, and access all that information. …
The Pure Unification Of Block And File Storage was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The heady, exciting days of ChatGPT and other generative AI and large-language models (LLMs) is beginning to give way to the understanding that enterprises will need to get a tight grasp on how these models are being used in their operations or they will risk privacy, security, legal, and other problems down the road. …
Keeping Large Language Models From Running Off The Rails was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Two decades ago, all the chip makers, including Intel, had to buy Unix machines, usually massive ranks of Sparc/Solaris systems, to do electronic design automation to design and test their chip designs. …
Accelerating Chip Design With GPUs, And Adding AI To Push It Further was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Video has taken over the Internet, with almost 80 percent or so of the traffic being video. …
Internet-Scale Video Requires Its Own Kind Of Supercomputing was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
If incumbent storage suppliers want to have a business in the hybrid cloud world, they have to find ways to erase the line between what’s in the cloud and what’s on-premises – and increasingly what’s at the edge. …
HPE Converges 3PAR Block And Vast Data File Onto One Alletra MP Platform was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Similar to interior designers trying to fit the chairs, tables, and other furniture in rooms inside of a home, chip designers have to figure out where the various bits and pieces of a processor will lie on confined floor plans where latency between parts matters. …
The Dream Of Placing Blocks On Chip Designs With AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Containers are still the hot new technology in the datacenter to some, but many of the pieces and parts that eventually would find their way into today’s container platforms have long-since been used by enterprises and developers thanks to Docker. …
Docker Helped Invent Containers, And Is Now Reinventing Itself was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
If quantum computers are going to become a commercial thing sometime down the road – and there’s a lot of money and time going into the effort to make them viable for use by HPC organizations and enterprises – it’s increasingly likely that it will be in combination with classical computers. …
Preparing For Upcoming Hybrid Classical-Quantum Compute was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Nvidia is not rich enough – or dumb enough – to build a cloud to rival the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud. …
Nvidia Bends The Clouds To Its Own Financial Will was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
For many years, and quite a long time ago in computer time, Hadoop was seen as the best way to store and analyze mountains of unstructured data. …
Taking Another Stab At Massively Parallel Data Analytics was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The years-long run-up to the first exascale supercomputers was really a story about the ongoing competition between the United States and China. …
Who’s Going To Build The UK’s Homegrown Exascale Supercomputer? was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
There’s no resting on your laurels in the HPC world, no time to sit back and bask in a hard-won accomplishment that was years in the making. …
Getting To Zettascale Without Needing Multiple Nuclear Power Plants was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
In a lot of ways, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on The Kraft Group was no different than most other companies around the world. …
Pandemic Downtime Let Kraft Rebuild The IT Behind Patriots Football was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.