Author Archives: Nicole Hemsoth
Author Archives: Nicole Hemsoth
If we could take the Fugaku supercomputer out of the HPC market equation and while we were at it, pretend the pandemic never happened, the supercomputing market would be much easier to pin down. …
Exascale Machines Skew HPC Growth Projections was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Like its U.S. counterpart, Google, Baidu has made significant investments to build robust, large-scale systems to support global advertising programs. …
A Look at Baidu’s Industrial-Scale GPU Training Architecture was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Current custom AI hardware devices are built around super-efficient, high performance matrix multiplication. …
What Happens When Multipliers No Longer Define AI Accelerators? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The era of vector supercomputing might sound like ancient history to some but it’s still deeply rooted in major commercial and government institutions. …
U.S. Military Looks to NEC to Salvage (Way) Legacy Codes was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The Fugaku supercomputer, based on the Arm-driven A64FX processor and custom Fujitsu Tofu-D fabric, has been proven architecturally on a number of HPC and large-scale AI benchmarks and has drawn considerable attention among the supercomputing set. …
U.S. Institutions Put Fujitsu A64FX Through the Paces was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center (EPPC) is up and running with its Cerebras CS-1 waferscale system and is already working with European companies in biomedical and cybersecurity arenas in addition to its own research into different programming and AI models and projects in natural language processing and genome-wide association studies. …
EPCC Kicking Tires on New CS-1 AI System was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
There’s an AI unicorn startup you might not have even heard of. …
Preferred Networks Becoming Japan’s Industrial AI Powerhouse was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
There are some unique developments afoot at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), which stands to reason for the only HPC site to be housed in a former church. …
Cortus Hopes to Stake Early RISC-V HPC Claim was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Moore’s Law is not just a simple rule of thumb about transistor counts, it’s an economic, technical, and developmental force—and one strong enough to push some of the largest chipmakers to future-proof architectural approaches. …
AMD on Why Chiplets—And Why Now was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
If the workload-specific datacenter dominates in the near term, it could be RISC-V’s time to shine. …
AI Is RISC-V’s Trojan Horse into the Datacenter was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Last week, we introduced the Perlmutter supercomputer, the next-gen system at NERSC that will likely secure the #5 spot on the Top 500 list of the world’s most powerful machines. …
A 35 Petabyte All-Flash Balancing Act was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Amber Huffman and Peter Onufryk never could have imagined the little 100-page specification they worked on a decade ago would become a wide standard from phones and tables up to the largest datacenters in the world. …
NVMe 2.0 Firms Foundation for Future Storage Shifts was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
While the pandemic provided a funding boost to research supercomputing and life sciences HPC, the next wave of investments in HPC systems and simulation software might come from the rapidly evolving hypersonics space. …
Hypersonics Could Fuel Next Wave of HPC Investment was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
While there are not many neuromorphic hardware makers, those on the market (or in the research device sphere) are still looking for ways to run more mainstream workloads. …
MPI on Neuromorphic Hardware Shows Greater Promise was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Data movement is the king of all challenges for supercomputing sites to hyperscale datacenters. …
Testing the Limits of the BlueField-2 SmartNIC was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
It’s a cliché that the pandemic has changed the way we work forever, but it has certainly turned the spotlight on technologies, processes and practices that have reached the end of their useful life. …
Making Datacenter Networking as Consumable as Compute was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Oak Ridge National Lab’s forthcoming “Frontier” supercomputer will be blazing a multitude of new trails when it goes live in 2022. …
First Look at “Frontier” Supercomputer’s Storage Infrastructure was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
At this nascent stage of quantum computing, each of the limited hardware/device makers have their own software stacks. …
Coiling Python Around Hybrid Quantum Systems was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Covering developments in neuromorphic computing has been something of a piecemeal experience, as happens with all novel architectures. …
Neuromorphic Computing Innovation Favors the Edge was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Imagine a platform that hits a database with over a trillion online signals in a 100ms window and scores ML models over one million times per second to deliver near-real time results across over 100 million destinations. …
How Quantcast Navigated the Cloud TCO Conundrum was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.