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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.
Controlling The Network When You Don’t Own All Of It
Like others in the datacenter infrastructure space, Cisco Systems has had a front-row seat to the rapid changes in enterprise tech, from the accelerating adoption of the multicloud model to the increasing decentralization of the IT environment, rippling out to the network edge. …
Controlling The Network When You Don’t Own All Of It was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Putting More Flex Into Flash Storage Arrays
In a cloud-based, highly distributed, and data-centric world, flexibility in what a piece of hardware and its systems software can do, where it can run, and how it can be configured is a critical differentiator for picky enterprises. …
Putting More Flex Into Flash Storage Arrays was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Neural Networks Are Only As Good As The Data They Are Fed
Like other kinds of computing, if you put garbage data into a machine learning training run and then pour new data through it, what comes out as the answer is puréed garbage. …
Neural Networks Are Only As Good As The Data They Are Fed was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Switchless Network Steers COSMA7 Supercomputer Down Congested Pathways
Scientists at the Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC) in England spend most of their time trying to unravel the secrets held in the deepest parts of space, from the Big Bang and the origins of the universe to mysteries like dark matter. …
Switchless Network Steers COSMA7 Supercomputer Down Congested Pathways was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
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.