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Supercomputing Coiled To Spring To Exascale
If you want to rank in the world of supercomputing – as national and state governments as well as academic and research institutions most certainly do to prove their worth for research and development – then you need to have at least a petaflops ante now to play the game. …
Supercomputing Coiled To Spring To Exascale was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The Challenge Machine Learning Brings To Storage
Given our focus on the systems-level of AI machine building, storage was a big topic of discussion at the sold-out Next AI Platform event we hosted in May. …
The Challenge Machine Learning Brings To Storage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Intel Finally Serious About Switching with Barefoot Networks Buy
In one fell swoop, Intel has finally filled a giant hole in its switching product line by acquiring upstart Barefoot Networks, the creator of the P4 programming language for networking devices and the “Tofino” family of Ethernet switch ASICs that make use of it. …
Intel Finally Serious About Switching with Barefoot Networks Buy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Future Kubernetes Will Mimic What Facebook Already Does
If you want to see what the future of the Kubernetes container management system will look like, then the closed source, homegrown Tupperware container control system that Facebook has been using and evolving since 2011 – before Docker containers and Kubernetes were around – might be a good place to find inspiration. …
Future Kubernetes Will Mimic What Facebook Already Does was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
A New Era In Servers Is Starting Now
You know the world is a different place when shipping 2.58 million servers in a quarter feels like a slowdown, a disappointment, and perhaps a leading indicator of an overall economic slowdown in the world. …
A New Era In Servers Is Starting Now was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Where Does Nvidia Go In The Datacenter From Here?
We have to admit that it is often a lot more fun watching an upstart carve out whole new slices of business, or create them out of what appears to be thin air, in the datacenter than it is to watch how it will respond to intense competitive pressures and somehow manage to keep growing despite that. …
Where Does Nvidia Go In The Datacenter From Here? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
CockroachDB Wants To Take A Bite Out Of Oracle
Cockroach Labs has created a clone of Google’s Spanner geographically distributed database, and it looks like adoption of the CockroachDB database is starting to ride up the blade of the proverbial hockey stick and is moving quickly towards the much steeper handle. …
CockroachDB Wants To Take A Bite Out Of Oracle was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Selling Distributed Public Cloud, One Rack At A Time
The most interesting thing about Hewlett Packard Enterprise has nothing to do with its many products in compute, storage, and networking, or even its recent $1.3 billion deal to acquire supercomputer maker Cray. …
Selling Distributed Public Cloud, One Rack At A Time was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Those Without Persistent Memory Are Fated To Repeat It
We have published a number of stories lately that talk about the innovative uses of Intel’s 3D XPoint Optane persistent memory modules, which are a key component of the company’s “Cascade Lake” Xeon SP systems and which are also becoming a foundational technology in clustered storage based on NVM-Express over Fabrics interconnects from a number of storage upstarts. …
Those Without Persistent Memory Are Fated To Repeat It was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
With Cray Deal, HPE Finally Enters The HPC Big Leagues
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has reached the top of the HPC sector in an unconventional way, but one that could prove truly transformative for its new acquisition, legendary supercomputer maker Cray. …
With Cray Deal, HPE Finally Enters The HPC Big Leagues was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
DUG Sets Foundation For Exascale HPC Utility With Xeon Phi
While exascale systems, even at the single precision computational capability commonly used in the oil and gas industry, will cost on the order of $250 million, that cost pales in comparison to the capital outlay of drilling exploratory deep water wells, which can cost $100 million a pop. …
DUG Sets Foundation For Exascale HPC Utility With Xeon Phi was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The CPU Still Matters In The AI Stack
The CPU does not rule the computing roost when it comes to machine learning training, but it still has a role when it comes to machine learning inference and for other kinds of data analytics related to machine learning. …
The CPU Still Matters In The AI Stack was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Cray, AMD Tag Team On 1.5 Exaflops “Frontier” Supercomputer
The competition for the compute engines in hybrid HPC and AI supercomputer systems is heating up, and it is beginning to look a bit like back to the future with Cray on the rise and AMD also revitalized. …
Cray, AMD Tag Team On 1.5 Exaflops “Frontier” Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Starting Thinking About AI Workflows, Not Just AI Platforms
Hardware is the most tangible part of any system, and it is the aspect of the system that tends to get the most attention. …
Starting Thinking About AI Workflows, Not Just AI Platforms was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
AWS Is Now The Largest Systems Business In The World
Considering all of the hundreds of different moving parts, as gauged by different types of features and services, that Amazon Web Services delivers on its public cloud, and the ever-increasing complexity of the AWS platform, it is pretty amazing that the cloud juggernaut can delivery pretty consistently growing revenue growth. …
AWS Is Now The Largest Systems Business In The World was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Common Componentry Is The Key to Edge Architectures
The edge has caught the imagination of IT vendors, who envision a place well outside of the confines of the central datacenter but not quite in the cloud where the vast amounts of data that are being generated by billions of devices, systems and sensors can be quickly captured, stored, processed and analyzed in as close to real time as possible. …
Common Componentry Is The Key to Edge Architectures was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Is That Canary In The Datacenter Feeling Dizzy?
The market for servers used to be a lot more predictable in the past, with a portion of the tens millions of companies worldwide buying machinery in their own cycles that more or less coincided with the global gross domestic product. …
Is That Canary In The Datacenter Feeling Dizzy? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Stacking Up Cascade Lake Xeons Against AMD Epyc For HPC
In theory, customers running HPC simulation and modeling applications want to cram as much compute in as small of a space as they can. …
Stacking Up Cascade Lake Xeons Against AMD Epyc For HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The Long View On The Intel Xeon Architecture
Incremental change is the secret to the success of the human race, and it is also its most difficult aspect in some regards. …
The Long View On The Intel Xeon Architecture was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Big Data In Little Spaces: Hadoop And Spark At The Edge
The advent of scalable analytics in the form of Hadoop and Spark seems to be moving to the end of the Technology Hype Cycle. …
Big Data In Little Spaces: Hadoop And Spark At The Edge was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .