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HPE GreenLake: The HPC Cloud That Comes To You
Sponsored By its very nature, high performance computing is an expensive proposition compared to other kinds of computing. …
HPE GreenLake: The HPC Cloud That Comes To You was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Many Other High Costs Cloud Users Pay
Isn’t it funny how the same hyperscalers who are maniacal about building everything themselves – and who are making a fortune selling access to their infrastructure as cloud services – want you to use their Seriously Hard Information Technology and stop using your own? …
The Many Other High Costs Cloud Users Pay was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Enfabrica Takes On Hyperdistributed I/O Bottlenecks
Not so very long ago, distributed computing meant clustering together a bunch of cheap X86 servers and equipping them with some form of middleware that allowed for work to be distributed across hundreds to thousands to sometimes tens of thousands of nodes. …
Enfabrica Takes On Hyperdistributed I/O Bottlenecks was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Intel Reorg Puts Gelsinger Firmly In Control Of The Datacenter
Whenever something is not working, you change it. Sometimes, you glue things together to create some sort of synergy and then you pull them apart to get some sort of necessary focus. …
Intel Reorg Puts Gelsinger Firmly In Control Of The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Nvidia Expands AI Stack, Stretches From Cloud To Co-Location
Everybody wants to build a platform, hence the name of this publication. …
Nvidia Expands AI Stack, Stretches From Cloud To Co-Location was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Google Does The Server Math With Tau Cloud Instances
In a world where Moore’s Law is slowing and hardware has to be increasingly co-designed with the system software stack and the applications that run above it, the matrix of possible combinations of hardware is getting wider and deeper. …
Google Does The Server Math With Tau Cloud Instances was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Forget Mesos And OpenStack, Hashi Stack Is The New Next Platform
While a lot of software for creating and managing scale comes out of supercomputing centers, hyperscalers, and the largest public cloud builders, there is still plenty of innovation being done by people who need to tackle scale outside of these upper echelon organizations. …
Forget Mesos And OpenStack, Hashi Stack Is The New Next Platform was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Intel Braces For DPU Hit, Awaits Jevon’s Paradox Bounce
We said this a long time ago, and we are going to say it again now. …
Intel Braces For DPU Hit, Awaits Jevon’s Paradox Bounce was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Server Budgets On The Mend As Pandemic Tries To End
Businesses are judged quarter on quarter and year on year, but you have to look at the long haul and the flow of all business over time to really judge properly. …
Server Budgets On The Mend As Pandemic Tries To End was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Why IBM Is Suing GlobalFoundries Over Chip Roadmap Failures
The tight linkage between chip designs and chip manufacturing processes has caused its shared of havoc in the IT sector, and it is getting worse as Moore’s Law has slowed and Dennard scaling died a decade ago. …
Why IBM Is Suing GlobalFoundries Over Chip Roadmap Failures was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Why Cloudera Might Be Worth $5.3 Billion After All
What is a legacy data management and data analytics platform with 1,800 large enterprise customers worth? …
Why Cloudera Might Be Worth $5.3 Billion After All was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A Tale Of Two Enterprise IT Beasties
The so-called “Magnificent 7” or “Super 8” hyperscalers and cloud builders of the world may comprise a substantial slice of worldwide sales of servers, storage, and networking, and the cloud capacity and hyperscale services they provide may in turn represent a significant – but nowhere near dominant – chunk of overall IT spending. …
A Tale Of Two Enterprise IT Beasties was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AMD Wants To Put Together The Complete Package
Designing a great CPU or GPU, or even an FPGA or a custom ASIC like a switch or router chip, is an important aspect of creating ever-more-powerful systems. …
AMD Wants To Put Together The Complete Package was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When The Chips Are Down And Prices Go Up
And you thought toilet paper shortages were bad in the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, or board and plywood prices are high and getting insane at the local hardware depot that you already spent too much money at. …
When The Chips Are Down And Prices Go Up was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Ampere Arm Server Chip Roadmap May Lead Beyond Hyperscalers
Any tech startup that wants to live beyond is seed and venture funding rounds and make it to either an initial public offering or an acquisition by a company threatened by their very existence has to do two things. …
The Ampere Arm Server Chip Roadmap May Lead Beyond Hyperscalers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Google Hints About Its Homegrown TPUv4 AI Engines
Google may be buying heavens only knows how many GPUs to run HPC and AI workloads on its eponymous public cloud, and it may have talked recently about how it is committed to the idea of pushing the industry to innovate at the SoC level and staying out of designing its own compute engines, but the company is still building its own Tensor Processing Units, or TPUs for short, to support its TensorFlow machine learning framework and the applications it drives within Google and as a service for Google Cloud customers. …
Google Hints About Its Homegrown TPUv4 AI Engines was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Some Precise Data About Cloudy Infrastructure
The things we like best about watching the high end of the IT sector are seeing new technologies come out that have the potential to change the IT landscape and then seeing some market data that proves a technology either did or did not foment the expected change. …
Some Precise Data About Cloudy Infrastructure was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Talking Chip With Ampere Computing CEO Renee James
Outside of the HPC market where there are a number of companies that have delivered or are working on Arm-based server processors, Ampere Computing is the main independent supplier of Arm-based server chips with its current 80-core Altra chips and its impending 128-core Altra Max chips, which are sampling now and will start shipping in the third quarter. …
Talking Chip With Ampere Computing CEO Renee James was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Crazy Move #1486: Intel Buys VMware
Does Michael Dell want to be Intel’s largest shareholder? Maybe, just maybe. …
Crazy Move #1486: Intel Buys VMware was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Microsoft Does The Math On Azure Datacenter Switch Failures
As supercomputer centers have long known and as hyperscalers and cloud builders eventually learned, the larger the cluster, the greater the chance that on of the many components in the system will fail at any particular time. …
Microsoft Does The Math On Azure Datacenter Switch Failures was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.