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Arista Networks Brings The Battle For Routing To Cisco
It’s a great thing when an upstart supplier of hardware or software lands one of the hyperscalers or large public cloud builders on Earth as a customer. …
Arista Networks Brings The Battle For Routing To Cisco was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Founder Of CentOS Is Building The Next Platform
Greg Kurtzer, one of the co-founders of the CentOS Linux distribution, the creator of the Singularity container environment for HPC workloads, the founder of the new Rocky Linux distribution that seeks to replace the now defunct CentOS, and an HPC guru in his own right, is on a mission. …
The Founder Of CentOS Is Building The Next Platform was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Citadel That Is Still Cisco Systems
The hyperscalers and cloud builders can be split into two camps, but a third one might be emerging. …
The Citadel That Is Still Cisco Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Czech Republic Sticks With NEC Vector Engines For Weather Modeling
There are two different Auroras right now in supercomputing. There is the shape-shifting, legendary, and maybe even mythical “Aurora” and now “Aurora A21” exascale supercomputer that was being built by Intel with “Knights” many core processors and now, if Intel can get them out the door, with a combination of “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon SP processors and “Ponte Vecchio” Xe GPU accelerators, for Argonne National Laboratory. …
Czech Republic Sticks With NEC Vector Engines For Weather Modeling was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A First Peek At China’s Sunway Exascale Supercomputer
The trade war between the United States and China is not just a top-down political and economic one, but also a technical one. …
A First Peek At China’s Sunway Exascale Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AMD Takes Down Another Supercomputer Deal In Europe
The Dutch national supercomputer, called “Cartesius,” which is used for HPC education and research, is getting rather long in the tooth with some of its components being installed as far back as 2013. …
AMD Takes Down Another Supercomputer Deal In Europe was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Most Volatile IT Spending Year Is In The Rear View Mirror
The future has a nasty habit of being very hard to predict. …
The Most Volatile IT Spending Year Is In The Rear View Mirror was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
US Air Force Spends $100 Million To Accelerate Data Warehouses
We talk about big money being spent on GPU-accelerated HPC and AI systems all the time here at The Next Platform, and we have been clear that we think another area where such acceleration will take off is with databases and related analytics, and particularly with data warehouses that have trillions of rows of data. …
US Air Force Spends $100 Million To Accelerate Data Warehouses was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
PCI-Express 5.0: The Unintended But Formidable Datacenter Interconnect
If the datacenter has been taken over by InfiniBand, as was originally intended back in the late 1990s, then PCI-Express peripheral buses and certainly PCI-Express switching – and maybe even Ethernet switching itself – would not have been necessary at all. …
PCI-Express 5.0: The Unintended But Formidable Datacenter Interconnect was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Arc That Networks On-Prem, Multi-Cloud, And The Edge
We are in the midst of numerous foundational technological shifts in communications infrastructure that represents a generational opportunity for consumers, businesses, and providers alike. …
The Arc That Networks On-Prem, Multi-Cloud, And The Edge was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Even The World’s Largest Multiuser System Has Its Financial Limits
Watching Amazon Web Services explode on the scene and grow to ginormous size has been a thing to behold. …
Even The World’s Largest Multiuser System Has Its Financial Limits was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Why There’s Hard, Cold Cash For Soft, Disaggregated Routing
No matter if you are talking about compute or networking, there are two opposing forces that are constantly at interplay on a field of green money. …
Why There’s Hard, Cold Cash For Soft, Disaggregated Routing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Lay Of The FPGA Financial Land
As one of the four key engines of compute and networking, we like to keep an eye on what is happening with field programmable gate arrays and the SoCs that incorporate them and have a mix of network and CPU and other accelerator circuits increasingly embedded on them. …
The Lay Of The FPGA Financial Land was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AMD Rides The High Performance Computing Megacycle
Server buyers have longer memories and perhaps deeper disappointment of AMD’s exit from the X86 server processor business than consumers who buy PCs, and a manufacturing constrained Intel has clearly sacrificed some Core PC chip market share to maintain some Xeon SP server market share over the past two years. …
AMD Rides The High Performance Computing Megacycle was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Nvidia Gets Certifiable About Systems
If the emergence of Nvidia in datacenter compute shows anything, it is the value of controlling the software stack as you come to dominate the compute – and the revenue and profits – in the hardware stack. …
Nvidia Gets Certifiable About Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
After Three Decades, You Can Finally Have A Distributed SQL Database
Without good technology, all the marketing in the world won’t get a company off the ground and keep it in the air, and conversely, without good marketing and sales, all of the technology in the world won’t do it, either. …
After Three Decades, You Can Finally Have A Distributed SQL Database was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Horizontal And Vertical Platforms Of Big Blue
At its heart, and until the day it dies, if a corporation ever really dies, International Business Machines will be a platform company, no matter how much it tries to bamboozle itself or Wall Street or Main Street otherwise. …
The Horizontal And Vertical Platforms Of Big Blue was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Intel’s Datacenter Decline Not As Bad As Expected
Incoming chief executive officer and long-time Intel employee Pat Gelsinger is talking the helm of a chip company that has plenty of issues to sort out, but there is some good news as Intel reports its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2020 and Gelsinger gets ready to take over. …
Intel’s Datacenter Decline Not As Bad As Expected was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Storage Can’t Be An Afterthought With AI Systems
It is a given that high performance computing systems of any kind are going to need high performance storage to keep them fed. …
Storage Can’t Be An Afterthought With AI Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
What Gelsinger Can Do To Unscrew Intel
A little more than a week ago, Intel announced that Pat Gelsinger, its former chief technology officer and former manager of the predecessor of its Data Center Group as well as the current chief executive officer at server virtualization juggernaut VMware, would be returning to the world’s biggest chip maker to be its CEO and to take on the task of rescuing the company from itself and its competition. …
What Gelsinger Can Do To Unscrew Intel was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.