Author Archives: Timothy Prickett Morgan
Author Archives: Timothy Prickett Morgan
When any new abstraction layer comes to compute, it can only think in integers at first, and then it learns to do fractions and finally, if we are lucky – and we are not always lucky – that abstraction layer learns to do multiplication and scale out across multiple nodes as well as scaling in – slicing itself into pieces – within a single node. …
Teaching Kubernetes To Do Fractions And Multiplication On GPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Whenever demand exceeds supply, inflation is inevitable. And it is not at all surprising to find that in certain sectors of the networking space, the cost of bandwidth is flattening out instead of decreasing and in some cases is on the rise. …
Ethernet Switching Keeps Rising Despite Supply Chain Woes was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you need any proof that it doesn’t take the most advanced chip manufacturing processes to create an exascale-class supercomputer, you need look no further than the Sunway “OceanLight” system housed at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, China. …
How China Made An Exascale Supercomputer Out Of Old 14 Nanometer Tech was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There is a lot of chatter this week about optical communications with the OFC2022 conference being held in San Diego. …
Talking Silicon Photonics Signal And Noise With Andy Bechtolsheim was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Some of the most important luminaries in the HPC sector have spoken from on high, and their conclusions about the future of the HPC market are probably going to shock a lot of people. …
Will HPC Be Eaten By Hyperscalers And Clouds? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When it comes to memory for compute engines, FPGAs – or rather what we have started calling hybrid FPGAs because they have all kinds of hard coded logic as well as the FPGA programmable logic on a single package – have the broadest selection of memory types of any kind of device out there. …
A Cornucopia Of Memory And Bandwidth In The Agilex-M FPGA was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Paid Feature Great hardware is the foundation of any compute platform. …
With ROCm Software And Instinct MI200 GPUs, AMD Has Ecosystem Critical Mass was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In case it is not immediately obvious, over the past decade Nvidia has been transforming itself from a component supplier into a complete platform provider. …
With Excelero Storage, Nvidia Owns A Nearly Complete HPC/AI Stack was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is a tough environment for a lot of enterprises right now, and has been since the advent of the coronavirus pandemic more than two years ago. …
With Systems, HPE Walks The Line Between Demand And Supply was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The 3D stacking of chips has been the subject of much speculation and innovation in the past decade, and we will be the first to admit that we have been mostly thinking about this as a way to cram more capacity into a given compute engine while at the same time getting components closer together along the Z axis and not just working in 2D anymore down on the X and Y axes. …
GraphCore Goes 3D With AI Chips, Architects 10 Exaflops Ultra-Intelligent Machine was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Historically, the largest organizations in the world – the Global 2000 plus the biggest national government and academic research institutions – have always had the most complex data processing needs. …
Cerebras Shows Off Scale Up AI Performance For Big Pharma And Big Oil was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When the hyperscalers, the major datacenter compute engine suppliers, and the three remaining foundries with advanced node manufacturing capabilities launch a standard together on Day One, this is an unusual, significant, and pleasant surprise. …
Industry Behemoths Back Intel’s Universal Chiplet Interconnect was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When it comes to application acceleration, having a deep understanding of the complex algorithms that underly most HPC and AI applications is perhaps the most important thing that can be brought to bear. …
Groq Buys Maxeler For Its HPC And AI Dataflow Expertise was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We are still chewing through some of the announcements that came out of Intel Investor Day and the ISSCC 2022 chip conference, and one of the things we want to circle back on is the “Falcon Shores” hybrid CPU-GPU that Intel is working on for future servers. …
Aurora In A Socket: What Intel’s “Falcon Shores” XPU Might Do was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
What is the most important product that comes out of the semiconductor industry? …
SysMoore: The Next 10 Years, The Next 1,000X In Performance was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There are so many barriers to capacity increases in high performance computing systems that it would take a long time to rattle them off. …
HPE Taps Ayar Labs To Add Silicon Photonics To Slingshot Interconnect was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The datacenter server has been the center of gravity for compute for decades. …
Xeon D Refresh: The Little Hyperscale Engine That Could was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When people think of supercomputers, they think of a couple of different performance vectors (pun intended), but usually the first thing they think of is the performance of a big, parallel machine as it runs one massive job scaling across tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of cores working in concert. …
NCAR Pits Azure Cloud Against Its Own Big Iron For Climate Models was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We were complaining a few weeks ago that Intel had not put out a server processor roadmap of any substance in a long time, and instead of just leaving it at that, we created our own Xeon SP roadmap based on rumors, speculation, hunches, and desires. …
Intel Unfolds Xeon Roadmap With More Cores, Denser Transistors was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Next year, with the launch of the “Grace” Arm server processors, Nvidia will have all of the compute and networking bases it cares about in the datacenter covered, and it will be selling its technology at a rapid pace. …
Can Nvidia Be The Biggest Chip Maker In The Datacenter? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.