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Panasas Adapts To The Ebbs And Flows Of Enterprise HPC
With enterprises increasing embracing HPC environments to help manage the tidal wave of data that’s washing over them and the rise of AI and machine learning workloads, tech vendors selling into the market need to demonstrate both flexibility and adaptability. …
Panasas Adapts To The Ebbs And Flows Of Enterprise HPC was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Automagically Moving Legacy Hadoop To The Cloud
Always on the lookout for the kernel of a new platform, we chronicled the steady rise and sharp fall of Hadoop as the go-to open source analytics platform. …
Automagically Moving Legacy Hadoop To The Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Neuromorphic Computing Will Need Partners To Break Into The Datacenter
The emerging field of neuromorphic processing isn’t an easy one to navigate. …
Neuromorphic Computing Will Need Partners To Break Into The Datacenter was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Rethinking The Edge In A Multicloud World
For the past decade or so, unless enterprises wanted to build more of their own datacenters, the cloud providers were the only game in town to tackle new workloads at massive scale. …
Rethinking The Edge In A Multicloud World was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Embracing The Inevitable Move From Hardware To Services
When Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and other hyperscale public cloud providers started becoming a force in IT almost a decade ago, questions arose about what the future looked like for traditional datacenter hardware providers like Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. …
Embracing The Inevitable Move From Hardware To Services was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
HPE Creates Its Own AI Stack For Large Enterprises
While the hyperscalers have been running AI workloads against vast datasets in production for a decade and a half, many large enterprises have lots of data they think is relevant but they are not at all experiences with AI and the system requirements it has. …
HPE Creates Its Own AI Stack For Large Enterprises was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
China Stretches Another AI Framework To Exascale
The nexus of traditional high performance computing and artificial intelligence is a fact, not a theory, and the exascale-class machinery installed in the United States, Europe, China, and Japan will be a showcase for how these two powerful simulation and analytical prediction techniques can be brought together in many different ways. …
China Stretches Another AI Framework To Exascale was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Oil And Gas Industry To Get Its Own Stencil Tensor Accelerator
In a post Moore’s Law world, domain specific hardware is becoming more common. …
Oil And Gas Industry To Get Its Own Stencil Tensor Accelerator was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Weaving Infrastructure Islands Into A Cloudy Pangea
For most enterprises, the future of IT is infrastructure and systems software that spans multiple clouds, a combination of both disparate public clouds and their own private clouds. …
Weaving Infrastructure Islands Into A Cloudy Pangea was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The Performance Of MLPerf As A Ubiquitous Benchmark Is Lacking
Industry benchmarks are important because, no matter that comparisons are odious, IT organizations nonetheless have to make them to plot out the architectures of their future systems. …
The Performance Of MLPerf As A Ubiquitous Benchmark Is Lacking was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Google BigLake Stretches BigQuery Across All Data
To Gerrit Kazmaier, the distinction between managed databases and data lakes has never made much sense, and it makes even less sense today as data is piling up like soaring mountains being pushed up by tectonic forces. …
Google BigLake Stretches BigQuery Across All Data was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
AMD Makes A Big DPU Move With $1.9 Billion Bid For Pensando
Lisa Su has had the datacenter in her sights since taking over as president and chief executive officer of AMD in 2014, charting a course that would allow the processor to once again become a factor in the global server market after a decade or so in the wilderness following its brief but high-profile breakthrough with its first Opteron processor in 2003. …
AMD Makes A Big DPU Move With $1.9 Billion Bid For Pensando was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Putting Composability Through The Paces On HPC Systems
With HPC and AI workloads only getting larger and demanding more compute power and bandwidth capabilities, system architects are trying to map out the best ways to feed the beast as they ponder future systems. …
Putting Composability Through The Paces On HPC Systems was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Revving Up Relational Databases For Scorching Native AI Performance
There may not be as much structured data in the world as there is unstructured data, but one could easily argue that the structured data – mostly purchasing transactions and other kinds of historical data data stored in systems of record – is at least of equal value. …
Revving Up Relational Databases For Scorching Native AI Performance was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Cisco Rolls Out New Systems As It Pushes Its Own Kubernetes Stack
There are no shortage of options for enterprises when it comes to Kubernetes platforms. …
Cisco Rolls Out New Systems As It Pushes Its Own Kubernetes Stack was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Red Hat Stacks Up Software To Contain AI On Nvidia Platforms
Nvidia and VMware have forged a tight partnership when it comes to bringing AI to the enterprise, which stands to reason given the prevalence of VMware’s ESXi hypervisor and vSphere management tools across more than 300,000 companies worldwide. …
Red Hat Stacks Up Software To Contain AI On Nvidia Platforms was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
HPE Focuses On Networking, HPC, Storage With GreenLake Expansion
Hewlett Packard Enterprise was a bit ahead of the curve when it announced in 2019 that by this year it would be offering its entire product portfolio as a service and that its GreenLake hybrid cloud platform would be the foundation of the effort. …
HPE Focuses On Networking, HPC, Storage With GreenLake Expansion was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Luminous Shines A Light On Optical Architecture For Future AI Supercomputer
It is not every day when we hear about a new supercomputer maker with a new architecture, but it is looking like Luminous Computing, a silicon photonics startup that has been pretty secretive about what it was up to, is going to be throwing its homegrown architecture into the ring. …
Luminous Shines A Light On Optical Architecture For Future AI Supercomputer was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Architecting Memory Pools For HPC And AI Applications Using CXL
Over the past decade, much of the focus with machine learning has been on CPUs and accelerators, primarily GPUs but also custom ASICs, with advances in the chip architecture aimed at boosting parallel math performance. …
Architecting Memory Pools For HPC And AI Applications Using CXL was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Looking For A Singularity Event For Scientific Computing
There are people who build big machines and then there are people who create the algorithms, libraries, and applications that harness them. …
Looking For A Singularity Event For Scientific Computing was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.