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Public Cloud Giants Fight For HPC Supremacy
Microsoft Azure has been able to put actual Cray XC series supercomputers and CS Storm clusters in the public cloud for more than two years now, and it is unclear how many companies have commissioned Cray, now part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, to do so. …
Public Cloud Giants Fight For HPC Supremacy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Nvidia Arms Up Server OEMs And ODMs For Hybrid Compute
The one thing that AMD’s return to the CPU market and its more aggressive moves in the GPU compute arena have done, as well as Intel’s plan to create a line of discrete Xe GPUs that can be used as companions to its Xeon processors, has done is push Nvidia and Arm closer together. …
Nvidia Arms Up Server OEMs And ODMs For Hybrid Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Four Workhorses Of The Data Apocalypse
The days when the X86 processor could do just about every kind of processing in the datacenter are gone. …
The Four Workhorses Of The Data Apocalypse was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Datacenter Starts To Perk Up For Nvidia
The datacenter business at Nvidia hit a rough patch a little less than a year ago, but it is starting to pick up again after a few quarters of declines and may soon be in positive growth territory. …
The Datacenter Starts To Perk Up For Nvidia was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It Takes Liquidity To Make Infrastructure Fluid
Stranded capacity has always been the biggest waste in the datacenter, and over the years, we have added more and more clever kinds of virtualization – hardware partitions, virtual machines and their hypervisors, and containers – as well as the systems management tools that exploit them. …
It Takes Liquidity To Make Infrastructure Fluid was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Intel Throws Down AI Gauntlet With Neural Network Chips
At this year’s Intel AI Summit, the chipmaker demonstrated its first-generation Neural Network Processors (NNP): NNP-T for training and NNP-I for inference. …
Intel Throws Down AI Gauntlet With Neural Network Chips was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A64FX Arm Chip Gets A Big Push From Cray
There are many good processors out there, but there are few that are excellent and elegant inasmuch as they are co-designed for specific workloads and then do them very well. …
A64FX Arm Chip Gets A Big Push From Cray was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Oil And Gas Giants Build Up Their Strategic GPU Reserves
When you are always looking for what platform architecture will be mainstream, you have to look at what those on the bleeding edge are doing to see what the leading edge might do, which in turn tells you what everyone else might eventually do. …
Oil And Gas Giants Build Up Their Strategic GPU Reserves was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The HPC Community Should Lead In Composability
It is a rare HPC cluster that is actually upgraded – meaning some of the components in the servers or the networks or the storage that comprise the system are swapped out somewhere about halfway through its lifecycle and replaced with cheaper, faster, or more capacious components. …
The HPC Community Should Lead In Composability was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Hypercalers Lead The Way To The Future With SmartNICs
The consensus is growing among the big datacenter operators of the world that CPU cores are such a precious commodity that they should never do network, storage, or hypervisor housekeeping work but rather focus on the core computation that they are really acquired to do. …
Hypercalers Lead The Way To The Future With SmartNICs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AMD’s Datacenter Business Breaks Through $1 Billion Run Rate
At some point, when the Epyc server CPU and Radeon Instinct GPU accelerator businesses are more substantial, AMD will probably be a lot less opaque about how its datacenter business is doing. …
AMD’s Datacenter Business Breaks Through $1 Billion Run Rate was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Reining In And Optimizing Cloud Spending
The fundamental advantage of using cloud services to deliver IT resources needed to support daily business operations is the flexibility they allow: on demand applications and instant infrastructure that can be ordered, provisioned, and delivered in minutes without the delays often involved in submitting equivalent requests to internal IT departments or waiting for suitable on-premise architecture to be implemented and configured. …
Reining In And Optimizing Cloud Spending was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AWS Invests In Iron And People To Court Enterprises
In the early years of Amazon Web Services, the collection of compute, storage, networking, and platform services (database, analytics, and such) were so good that Amazon, its parent company, did not have to spend a lot of money on sales and marketing to get startups to flock in droves to this public cloud to use it as their computing platform. …
AWS Invests In Iron And People To Court Enterprises was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Hyperscalers And Cloud Builders Resume Their Spending Spree
After two and a half quarters of tightening the purse strings, the world’s largest consumers of infrastructure – the eight major hyperscalers and cloud builders – plus their peers in the adjacent communications service provider space all started spending money on servers and storage again, and Intel can breathe a sigh of relief as it works to get its 10 nanometer manufacturing on track for the delivery of “Ice Lake” Xeon SP processors sometime in the second half of next year. …
Hyperscalers And Cloud Builders Resume Their Spending Spree was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Ma Bell, Not Google, Creates The Real Open Source Borg
True to its name, Google’s famous Borg cluster controller has absorbed a lot of different ideas about how to manage server clusters and the applications that run atop them at the search engine and now cloud computing giant. …
Ma Bell, Not Google, Creates The Real Open Source Borg was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Who Is In Charge Of The Datacenter Network?
Stanford University doesn’t own software defined networking. But it sure does feel that way some days. …
Who Is In Charge Of The Datacenter Network? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Cheering On The Optical I/O Inflection Point
In the past five years or so, we have had a remarkably good – and predictable – run of increases in aggregate switching bandwidth out of the major ASIC suppliers, and it has been a boon that underpins the massive expansion in datacenters among the hyperscalers. …
Cheering On The Optical I/O Inflection Point was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Substrate To Bind Datacenter Switching And Routing
The appliance model, where the hardware and software were tightly controlled by a single vendor, held sway in the datacenter for decades. …
The Substrate To Bind Datacenter Switching And Routing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Understanding And Balancing HPC On-Premises And In The Cloud
HPC shops are used to doing math – it is what they do for a living, after all – and as they evaluate their hybrid computing and storage strategies, they will be doing a lot of math. …
Understanding And Balancing HPC On-Premises And In The Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Potential Of Red Hat Plus Power Is Larger Than Exascale
Red Hat is coming onto IBM’s books at just the right time, and to be honest, it might have been better for Big Blue if the deal to acquire the world’s largest supplier of support and packaging services for open source software had closed maybe one or two quarters ago. …
The Potential Of Red Hat Plus Power Is Larger Than Exascale was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.