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Blazing The Trail For Exascale Storage
When it comes to advanced technologies at the high end of compute, networking, and storage, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is one of the world’s pathfinding testbeds. …
Blazing The Trail For Exascale Storage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Only Way To Predict The HPC Future Is To Live It
It is just plain weird to be attending an SC20 supercomputing conference virtually and to not be going to the IDC – now Hyperion Research – morning breakfast speed forecast just a little bit hungover. …
The Only Way To Predict The HPC Future Is To Live It was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
InfiniBand Is Still Setting The Network Pace For HPC And AI
If this is the middle of November, even during a global pandemic, this must be the SC20 supercomputing conference and there either must be a speed bump that is being previewed for the InfiniBand interconnect commonly used for HPC and AI or it is actually shipping in systems. …
InfiniBand Is Still Setting The Network Pace For HPC And AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Counting The Cost Of Under-Utilized GPUs – And Doing Something About It
The compute engines keep changing as the decades pass, but the same old problems keep cropping up in slightly different form. …
Counting The Cost Of Under-Utilized GPUs – And Doing Something About It was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Many Facets Of Hybrid Supercomputing As Exascale Dawns
There may not be a lot of new systems on the November 2020 edition of the Top500 rankings of supercomputers, but there has been a bunch of upgrades and system tunings of machines that have been recently added, expanding their performance, as well as a handful of new machines that are interesting in their own right. …
The Many Facets Of Hybrid Supercomputing As Exascale Dawns was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AMD At A Tipping Point With Instinct MI100 GPU Accelerators
It is hard enough to chase one competitor. Imagine how hard it is to chase two different ones in different but complementary markets while at the same time those two competitors are thinking about fighting each other in those two different markets and thus bringing even more intense competitive pressure on both fronts. …
AMD At A Tipping Point With Instinct MI100 GPU Accelerators was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Intel’s First Discrete Xe Server GPU Aimed At Hyperscalers
We have been waiting for years to see the first discrete Xe GPU from Intel that is aimed at the datacenter, and as it turns out, the first one is not the heavy compute engine we have been anticipating, but rather a souped up version of the Iris Xe LP and Iris Max Xe LP graphics cards that were launch at the end of October, which themselves are essentially the GPU extracted from the hybrid CPU-GPU “Tiger Lake” Core i9 processors for PC clients. …
Intel’s First Discrete Xe Server GPU Aimed At Hyperscalers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
176 Steps Closer To The Mythical All-Flash Datacenter
We have nothing against disk drives. Seriously. And in fact, we are amazed at the amount of innovation that continues to go into the last electromechanical device still in use in computing, which from a commercial standpoint started out with the tabulating machines created by Herman Hollerith in 1884 and used to process the 1890 census in the United States, thus laying the foundation of International Machines Machines. …
176 Steps Closer To The Mythical All-Flash Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Switching Back Into A Higher Gear
If you want to get a sense of what is happening in the high-end of the Ethernet switch and routing market, it is Arista Networks, formerly an upstart and now just one of the bigger vendors taking on the hegemony of Cisco Systems in networking in the datacenter and now on the campus and at the edge, is probably the best bellwether there is. …
Switching Back Into A Higher Gear was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sometimes HPC Means Big Memory, Not Big Compute
Not every HPC or analytics workload – meaning an algorithmic solver and the data that it chews on – fits nicely in a 128 GB or 256 GB or even a 512 GB memory space, and sometimes the dataset is quite large and runs best with a larger memory space rather than carving it up into smaller pieces and distributing across nodes with the same amount of raw compute. …
Sometimes HPC Means Big Memory, Not Big Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Where Latency Is Key And Throughput Is Of Value
If hardware doesn’t scale well, either up into a more capacious shared memory system or out across a network of modestly powered nodes, there isn’t much you can do about it. …
Where Latency Is Key And Throughput Is Of Value was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For HPC And AI, Composability Might Trump Cheap Flops
Maximizing the aggregate amount of compute that can be brought to bear for any given pile of money is what traditional high performance computing is all about. …
For HPC And AI, Composability Might Trump Cheap Flops was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AMD Girds For Compute War With Xilinx Deal
The rumors were right, and AMD president and chief executive officer Lisa Su is indeed printing out a tower of stock to acquire FPGA maker Xilinx for what amounts to about $35 billion and, as it turns out, she is relinquishing her position as president to Victor Peng, chief executive at Xilinx, to close the deal. …
AMD Girds For Compute War With Xilinx Deal was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Intel Needs To Engineer Its Financial Future
Somewhere nearly a decade ago, we made a joke when looking at the rise of the hyperscalers and cloud builders. …
Intel Needs To Engineer Its Financial Future was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Resurrection Of Cray And AMD In A Trifurcating HPC Space
Success in any endeavor is not just about having the right idea, but having that idea at the right time and then executing well against that plan. …
The Resurrection Of Cray And AMD In A Trifurcating HPC Space was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
At Its Heart, IBM Remains A Systems Company
We have argued, even a decade and a half before The Next Platform was founded, that no one would ever move all of their IT infrastructure to a utility, what we now call a public cloud. …
At Its Heart, IBM Remains A Systems Company was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
HPE And AMD Bag The Big Supercomputer Deal Down Under
Speaking very generally, investment in capability-class supercomputers by national governments tends to scale with gross domestic product. …
HPE And AMD Bag The Big Supercomputer Deal Down Under was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Intel Networking: Not Just A Bag Of Parts
What is the hardest job at Intel, excepting whoever is in charge of the development of chip etching processes and the foundries that implement it? …
Intel Networking: Not Just A Bag Of Parts was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Intel To Amp Up Security With “Ice Lake” Xeon SP Servers
Security is one of those necessary things that should not be an afterthought, but often is, and ideally is so invisible that it doesn’t get in the way of applications and the infrastructure it runs on. …
Intel To Amp Up Security With “Ice Lake” Xeon SP Servers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It Takes Geological Patience To Change Datacenter Storage
Moving from an HPC center or a hyperscaler to work on enterprise software has to be a frustrating experience. …
It Takes Geological Patience To Change Datacenter Storage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.