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Intel Chip Research Pushes Power Efficiency And Performance

Since Pat Gelsinger’s return to Intel as chief executive officer in early 2021, the company has bet big on bolstering its manufacturing processes and foundry business, expanded its fab footprint in the United States, and advocated for expanding the country’s chip making capabilities.

Intel Chip Research Pushes Power Efficiency And Performance was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

US and EU Pushing Ahead With Exascale, China Efforts Remains Shrouded

The HPC industry, after years of discussions and anticipation and some relatively minor delays, is now fully in the era of exascale computing, with the United States earlier this year standing up Frontier, its first such supercomputer, and plans for two more next year.

US and EU Pushing Ahead With Exascale, China Efforts Remains Shrouded was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Dell Wants To Put HPC And Quantum Into More Hands

The need for high-powered computing isn’t going away. Enterprises trying to corral the massive amounts of data they’re generating and adopting emerging technologies like machine learning are demanding the sort of HPC capabilities that not too long ago were reserved for research and educational institutions.

Dell Wants To Put HPC And Quantum Into More Hands was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

The Acute Role Reversal For AMD And Intel In Datacenter Compute

Everything looked normal. An audience of company executives and employees, journalists, and analysts staring at the brightly lit stage as the chief executive officer strode from one side to the other boasting of a chip’s performance and power efficiency, the advanced technologies that went into making it, and the marked advantages it held over the best the competition had to offer.

The Acute Role Reversal For AMD And Intel In Datacenter Compute was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Co-Location Plays A Big Role In Hybrid Cloud, Too

In the ongoing discussions about the still-evolving world of hybrid cloud, the focus tends to be on what enterprises are doing within their own on-premises datacenters – and private clouds – and their work with public cloud players like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

Co-Location Plays A Big Role In Hybrid Cloud, Too was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Building Software Bridges To Ensure Workload Portability

In these modern IT days – where the rapidly-evolving environment stretches from the datacenter to the cloud and edge, with a range of hyperscale cloud providers and myriad clusters to choose from – what is increasingly important when creating and running workloads is portability.

Building Software Bridges To Ensure Workload Portability was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

The Network Binds The Increasingly Distributed Datacenter

Before founding software-defined networking startup PlumGrid and then moving to VMware when it bought his company in 2016, Pere Monclus spent almost 12 years with Cisco Systems at a time when while much of enterprise networking was still in the corporate datacenter, the shift to network virtualization and the migration to the cloud were getting underway.

The Network Binds The Increasingly Distributed Datacenter was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.