Intel Smells Neuromorphic Opportunity

Neuromorphic computing has a rather long way to go before it becomes an accepted part of systems. …

Intel Smells Neuromorphic Opportunity was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Next Platform Radio for March, 2020

Next Platform Radio for the month of March, 2020.

Join The Next Platform for interviews and analysis around each day’s events. …

Next Platform Radio for March, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Software Evolution on ORNL’s Summit Supercomputer

Yesterday with the announcement of the forthcoming El Capitan supercomputer, which is set to be more powerful than the top 200 supercomputers combined, we got to thinking about a critical issue that is far less attention-capturing than big performance numbers. …

Software Evolution on ORNL’s Summit Supercomputer was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Next Platform Radio: 3/2/20 Edition

Supply Chain Impacts, HPC Investments, Event Disruptions

It is difficult to ignore the mounting impacts of supply chain disruption worldwide with the coronavirus crisis. …

Next Platform Radio: 3/2/20 Edition was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Full Agenda for The Next AI Platform: 2020 Edition

We are just 18 days away from The Next AI Platform event on March 10, 2020 at The Glasshouse in San Jose. …

Full Agenda for The Next AI Platform: 2020 Edition was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Quantum Control: More Than Meets the Eye

It is not difficult to oversimplify, even with something as complex and diverse as quantum computing, but these systems go far beyond mere qubits in deep freeze. …

Quantum Control: More Than Meets the Eye was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Where Portable AI Training Makes Sense

It is rare to find a story here at The Next Platform that does not focus on systems for large-scale use cases. …

Where Portable AI Training Makes Sense was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Where Will Quantum Systems Succeed in AI Training?

Quantum computers will continue to fit in the “emerging technologies” category for some time, at least in terms of their ability to handle a large enough number of real-world applications. …

Where Will Quantum Systems Succeed in AI Training? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

The Next AI Platform: 2020 Edition

Much of what sets The Next Platform apart from other tech publications is depth and analysis. …

The Next AI Platform: 2020 Edition was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Time in the Sun Coming for Cloud FPGAs

Keeping an eye on how the largest cloud providers choose to invest in hardware is always interesting but it does not often shed much light on how emerging workloads are driving new investments. …

Time in the Sun Coming for Cloud FPGAs was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Could FPGAs Outweigh CPUs In Compute Share?

Over a decade ago we would not have expected accelerators to have be commonplace in the datacenter. …

Could FPGAs Outweigh CPUs In Compute Share? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

AI Is Driving Storage Down New Avenues

Storage systems are inherently data intensive. But the rapid emergence of artificial intelligence as a standard datacenter workload has storage vendors scrambling to design platforms that better meet the more stringent performance needs of these applications. …

AI Is Driving Storage Down New Avenues was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

How HPC, AI, and IoT Drive the Future of Smarter Vehicles

When many think of the Internet of Things (IoT) and connected vehicles from a compute perspective, the first thing that springs to mind is likely the small processors that are hard at work sensing, analyzing, and feeding data to remote systems. …

How HPC, AI, and IoT Drive the Future of Smarter Vehicles was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Bringing Objects and Files Under One Roof

One of the biggest storage decisions being considered by customers nowadays is how they want to manage their data: as cloud-like objects or as traditional files. …

Bringing Objects and Files Under One Roof was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Has Arm Discovered the Ecosystem Keys?

Arm server development is a reality and a growing one at that. …

Has Arm Discovered the Ecosystem Keys? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Speeding I/O for Multi-GPU Clusters

As GPU-accelerated servers go, Nvidia’s DGX-2 box is hard to beat. …

Speeding I/O for Multi-GPU Clusters was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

What is The Next FPGA Platform?

The Next Platform has been tracking momentum with FPGAs over the last several years with particular emphasis on the role programmable devices will continue to play in application acceleration as well as in computational storage and modern datacenter networks. …

What is The Next FPGA Platform? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

MLPerf Inference Results Offer Glimpse into AI Chip Performance

There is much at stake in the world of datacenter inference and while the market has not yet decided its winners, there are finally some new metrics in the bucket to aid decision-making. …

MLPerf Inference Results Offer Glimpse into AI Chip Performance was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Deep Divides Between AI Chip Startups, Developers

It’s par for the course for AI chip startups to focus on peak performance on outdated benchmarks to appeal to the hardware folks who might give their gear a go for deep learning training or inference. …

Deep Divides Between AI Chip Startups, Developers was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Why Micron is Getting into the AI Accelerator Business

Micron has a habit of building interesting research prototypes that offer a vague hope of commercialization for the sheer purpose of learning how to make its own memory and storage subsystem approaches more tuned to next generation applications. …

Why Micron is Getting into the AI Accelerator Business was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.