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The Ever-Embiggening Humongous Document Database
Moving its eponymous NoSQL document database to the cloud and running it as a managed service has been a watershed event for MongoDB, which like a number of its peers in the broader database market are growing at the expense of relational databases that can’t scale as well for certain workloads. …
The Ever-Embiggening Humongous Document Database was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Server Spending Measures Aspiration As Much As Oomph
Sometimes, to get the proper perspective, you have to take the long view. …
Server Spending Measures Aspiration As Much As Oomph was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A New Era In High Performance Computing
Long gone are the days when high performance computing was limited solely to traditional simulation and modeling at academic and government research labs. …
A New Era In High Performance Computing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Presto Is The Third Time Charm For Federated Databases
Users of relational database management systems are accustomed to sub-second response for relatively simple online transaction processing, and have been able to enjoy those zippy responses for decades. …
Presto Is The Third Time Charm For Federated Databases was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Not All FPGAs Need To Be Discrete
While Xilinx and Intel are the dominant suppliers of discrete FPGAs and related system on chip designs that have FPGAs at their heart, they are by no means the only providers of programmable logic in the datacenter. …
Not All FPGAs Need To Be Discrete was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Avoiding The Missing Middle With AI
It is common knowledge in the manufacturing sector of the economy that many of the companies that should have deployed HPC simulation and modeling applications one or two decades ago to help with product design, among other tasks, did not do so. …
Avoiding The Missing Middle With AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
OpenPower Puts Open Source Software Guru In Charge
If you want to build a successful hardware ecosystem around a chip architecture that has recently been open sources, as the Power chip instruction set was last August, then it probably makes a lot of sense to put someone at the help of the project who has deep and broad experience participating in the open source software ecosystem. …
OpenPower Puts Open Source Software Guru In Charge was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Diving Deep Into The Nvidia Ampere GPU Architecture
When you have 54.2 billion transistors to play with, you can pack a lot of different functionality into a computing device, and this is precisely what Nvidia has done with vigor and enthusiasm with the new “Ampere” GA100 GPU aimed at acceleration in the datacenter. …
Diving Deep Into The Nvidia Ampere GPU Architecture was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The GPU Database Evolves Into An Analytics Platform
As the name of this publication suggests, we are system thinkers and we like to watch the evolution of a collection of tools into a platform. …
The GPU Database Evolves Into An Analytics Platform was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Still Open For Business After All These Years
Open source hardware is something that is intellectually satisfying as well as economically rewarding, but it is clearly now something for everyone. …
Still Open For Business After All These Years was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Before Long, Datacenter Will Be Nvidia’s Biggest Business
It is hard to remember sometimes way back when, in 2008, when Nvidia first took a stab at GPU compute in the datacenter with the original Tesla GPU accelerators and a very rudimentary CUDA programming environment for offloading parallel algorithms from CPUs to GPUs. …
Before Long, Datacenter Will Be Nvidia’s Biggest Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
With Fugaku Supercomputer Installed, RIKEN Takes On Coronavirus
Supercomputers are designed for a number of big jobs that can only be done by massively powerful machinery, and one of those jobs has been the modeling of chemical compounds and biological systems, often in concert to model diseases and to help find cures for them. …
With Fugaku Supercomputer Installed, RIKEN Takes On Coronavirus was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Inside Facebook’s Future Rack And Microserver Iron
The hyperscalers and cloud builders have been setting the pace for innovation in the server arena for the past decade or so, particularly and publicly since Facebook set up the Open Compute Project in April 2011 and ramping up as Microsoft joined up in early 2014 and basically created a whole new server innovation stream that was unique from – and largely incompatible with – the designs put out by Facebook. …
Inside Facebook’s Future Rack And Microserver Iron was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Ampere DGX Servers Pack A Wallop, Including AMD Epyc CPUs
A new CPU or GPU compute engine is always an exciting time for the datacenter because we get to see the results of years of work and clever thinking by hardware and software engineers who are trying to break through barriers with both their Dennard scaling and their Moore’s Law arms tied behind their backs. …
Ampere DGX Servers Pack A Wallop, Including AMD Epyc CPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Nvidia Unifies AI Compute With “Ampere” GPU
The in-person GPU Technical Conference held annually in San Jose may have been canceled in March thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, but behind the scenes Nvidia kept on pace with the rollout of its much-awaited “Ampere” GA100 GPU, which is finally being unveiled today. …
Nvidia Unifies AI Compute With “Ampere” GPU was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
This Switcheroo Doesn’t Get Old
Any company that holds more than a quarter of a market – by money or shipments – is doing pretty well. …
This Switcheroo Doesn’t Get Old was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Hot On The Heels Of Mellanox, Nvidia Snaps Up Cumulus Networks
Last week, when we talked to Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer, Jensen Huang, about how the datacenter was becoming the unit of compute and in such a world networking was critical, it was obvious that acquiring Mellanox Technologies for $6.9 …
Hot On The Heels Of Mellanox, Nvidia Snaps Up Cumulus Networks was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AWS Weathers The Coronavirus Storm
With much of the world in lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic, it is not a surprise that much of the attention that is being paid to Amazon’s financial results for the first quarter of 2020 focused on its online retail operation, which is literally a lifeline to many in the United States, and the massive warehousing and shipping infrastructure behind it. …
AWS Weathers The Coronavirus Storm was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Mainstreaming Fast Flash Clusters For Fun And Profit
One of the common themes – and one could say even the main theme – of The Next Platform is that some of technologies developed by the high performance supercomputing centers (usually in conjunction with governments and academia), the hyperscalers, the big cloud builders, and a handful of big and innovative large enterprises eventually get hardened, commercialized, and pushed out into the larger mainstream of information technology. …
Mainstreaming Fast Flash Clusters For Fun And Profit was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Steady Patience Of AMD In The Datacenter
We have said more than once in recent weeks that recessions accelerate technology transitions but they do not cause them. …
The Steady Patience Of AMD In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.