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The Dream Of Placing Blocks On Chip Designs With AI
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.
Docker Helped Invent Containers, And Is Now Reinventing Itself
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.
Preparing For Upcoming Hybrid Classical-Quantum Compute
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 Bends The Clouds To Its Own Financial Will
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.
Taking Another Stab At Massively Parallel Data Analytics
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.
Who’s Going To Build The UK’s Homegrown Exascale Supercomputer?
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.
Getting To Zettascale Without Needing Multiple Nuclear Power Plants
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.
Pandemic Downtime Let Kraft Rebuild The IT Behind Patriots Football
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.
A Database For All Locations, Models, And Scales
Enterprises are creating huge amounts of data and it is being generated, stored, accessed, and analyzed everywhere – in core datacenters, in the cloud distributed among various providers, at the edge, in databases from multiple vendors, in disparate formats, and for new workloads like artificial intelligence. …
A Database For All Locations, Models, And Scales was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Supercharging Cassandra NoSQL For Machine Learning
DataStax, the driving force behind the ongoing development of and commercialization of the open source NoSQL Apache Cassandra database, had been in business for nine years in 2019 when it made a hard shift to the cloud. …
Supercharging Cassandra NoSQL For Machine Learning was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
With Sapphire Rapids Launched, Gelsinger Focuses On The Future
Pat Gelsinger returned to Intel as CEO in early 2021, the same year that the company was supposed to launch is much-touted fourth-generation Xeon SP processor, dubbed “Sapphire Rapids.” …
With Sapphire Rapids Launched, Gelsinger Focuses On The Future was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
HPE Adapts Boosted Alletra Storage For GreenLake Utility Consumption
Nearly two years ago, Hewlett Packard Enterprise rolled out a new battle plan for storage and a new kind of storage array to implement it. …
HPE Adapts Boosted Alletra Storage For GreenLake Utility Consumption was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
oneAPI 2023: One Plug-In To Run Them All
Intel has a lot at stake with its oneAPI software stack. …
oneAPI 2023: One Plug-In To Run Them All was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
For HPE, The Cloud Is A Private And A Public Matter
Three years ago, Hewlett Packard Enterprise was the first major hardware and software infrastructure vendor to announce plans to make its entire portfolio available as a service, setting 2022 as the deadline for making that happen. …
For HPE, The Cloud Is A Private And A Public Matter was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
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.
HPC Follows The Enterprise Into The Cloud
It’s no secret that the hyperscalers and cloud builders are becoming the biggest drivers of the datacenter hardware portion of the IT market. …
HPC Follows The Enterprise Into The Cloud 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.