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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.
VMware Wants To Erase The Lines Between Datacenter, Cloud, And Edge
The modern enterprise IT environment is a sprawling, widely distributed, multi-tentacled beast that encompasses not only the traditional datacenter but multiple public clouds, private clouds, colocation facilities, telecommunications sites, and the edge. …
VMware Wants To Erase The Lines Between Datacenter, Cloud, And Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Intel Hopes To Accelerate Datacenter And Edge With A Slew Of Chips
It is hard to say how many Xeon and Xeon SP CPU sales have been obliterated by Nvidia GPUs, but the number is a big one. …
Intel Hopes To Accelerate Datacenter And Edge With A Slew Of Chips was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Making AI Run At Any Scale But Not At All Costs
AI is arguably the most important kind of HPC in the world right now in terms of providing immediate results for immediate problems, and particularly for enterprises with lots of data and a desire to make money in a new economy that does not fit models and forecasts before the coronavirus pandemic. …
Making AI Run At Any Scale But Not At All Costs was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Untether AI Pulls the Curtain Rope For Its Next-Gen Inferencing System
When we last focused on Untether AI in 2021, the AI inferencing hardware startup had just secured $125 million in funding, which came a year after the company officially launched with its first-generation runAI200 devices and its unique at-memory inferencing approach. …
Untether AI Pulls the Curtain Rope For Its Next-Gen Inferencing System was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Gelsinger Sees Intel’s Foundry As The Future Of Chip Making
This week marked this first time since 2012 that Pat Gelsinger has spoken at the annual Hot Chips conference. …
Gelsinger Sees Intel’s Foundry As The Future Of Chip Making was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Managing Infrastructure At Cloud Scale Without The Hyperscaler Propellerheads
As more enterprises embrace hybrid and multicloud strategies and begin to extend their IT reach out to the edge, scale becomes an issue. …
Managing Infrastructure At Cloud Scale Without The Hyperscaler Propellerheads was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Moving Networks Forward With Digital Twins
The network, once seen as little more than plumbing in the datacenter, is at the center of distributed IT operations. …
Moving Networks Forward With Digital Twins was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Using AI Chips To Design Better AI Chips
Chip design is as much of an art as it is an engineering feat. …
Using AI Chips To Design Better AI Chips was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Cloud Builders Navigate A Sea Of Economic Uncertainty
In recent years, when the economy became unstable, enterprises tended to look to the cloud as a safe haven. …
Cloud Builders Navigate A Sea Of Economic Uncertainty was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Nvidia Speeds Up Large Language Modeling
Natural language processing has been an easy fit for these relatively early days of artificial intelligence. …
Nvidia Speeds Up Large Language Modeling was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Atos Notches Up Another Win With “Pegaso” Supercomputer At Petrobras
Atos, for a long time a key IT services provider in Europe, stepped onto the HPC stage in a big way in 2014 when it bought systems maker Bull’s hardware business in $840 million, instantly making it a major supercomputer vendor on the continent. …
Atos Notches Up Another Win With “Pegaso” Supercomputer At Petrobras was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Making Progress With Infrastructure As Code
It has been almost two years since infrastructure software maker Progress Software spent $220 million to buy Chef, the open source automation tech vendor Chef that was helping to fuel the “infrastructure as code” trend. …
Making Progress With Infrastructure As Code was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
More People Using More Data Means Wrestling With Exponential Complexity
If there is one job that system architects are always doing, it is to make highly complex data and the applications that chew on it easier to use, thus making that data more accessible to more people and more applications in an ever-expanding virtuous cycle. …
More People Using More Data Means Wrestling With Exponential Complexity was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
As CUDA Is To GPU, QODA is To Quantum Compute
In Nvidia’s decade and a half push to make GPU acceleration core to all kinds of high performance computing, a key component has been the CUDA parallel computing platform that made it easier for developers to create applications that can leverage graphics chips for general purpose processing. …
As CUDA Is To GPU, QODA is To Quantum Compute was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Pulling All the Levers For HPC In The Cloud
The acquisitions last year of Nimbix, Visual BI, and Ideal GRP by Atos signaled a more aggressive push by the European HPC vendor into the cloud and tech services space and coincided with a plan to expand beyond its legacy business and into such new growth areas. …
Pulling All the Levers For HPC In The Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Chip Makers Press For Standardized FP8 Format For AI
In March, Nvidia introduced its GH100, the first GPU based on the new “Hopper” architecture, which is aimed at both HPC and AI workloads, and importantly for the latter, supports an eight-bit FP8 floating point processing format. …
Chip Makers Press For Standardized FP8 Format For AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Hard Drives Are The Mark Twain Of Technology
After almost two years with data storage giant Western Digital, Ashley Gorakhpurwalla is getting used to the questions. …
Hard Drives Are The Mark Twain Of Technology was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Project Arctic Means VMware Doesn’t Get Left Out In the Hybrid Cold
Enterprises have been shifting many of their workloads into the cloud to take advantage of the scalability, efficiencies, and economics those environments offer. …
Project Arctic Means VMware Doesn’t Get Left Out In the Hybrid Cold was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Apache Druid Takes Its Place In The Pantheon Of Databases
A decade ago, Fangjin “FJ” Yang was a software architect at startup Metamarkets, a company that was building a user-facing analytics engine that a lot of developers simultaneously could go to, click on a UI, and very quickly get answers to their questions. …
Apache Druid Takes Its Place In The Pantheon Of Databases was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.