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Get The Picture With Video Acceleration In The Datacenter
With all of us now learning to live, work, and learn from home, it is becoming apparent how critical video streaming is as a tool to support our new normal. …
Get The Picture With Video Acceleration In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Puffing Up Computational Fluid Dynamics On The Cloud
Huge dataset sizes and computationally intense demands of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) workloads are motivating some organizations to seek highly elastic HPC solutions with enormous memory volumes. …
Puffing Up Computational Fluid Dynamics On The Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Big Blue Open Sources The Core Inside BlueGene/Q Supercomputers
Earlier this month, we were talking to the James Kulina, the new executive director of the OpenPower Foundation, which is the organization created by IBM and Google back in the summer of 2013 to create a community around the Power architecture. …
Big Blue Open Sources The Core Inside BlueGene/Q Supercomputers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The New General And New Purpose In Computing
The term “general purpose” in regards to compute is an evolving one. …
The New General And New Purpose In Computing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Battle For Enterprise Compute Begins In The Cloud
If the hyperscalers are a crystal ball in which we see the far-off future of compute, storage, and networking writ large and ahead of the mainstream, then the public cloud builders are a mirror in which we see the more immediate needs and desires of enterprises. …
The Battle For Enterprise Compute Begins In The Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Accelerated Databases In The Fast Lane
Hardware accelerated databases are not new things. More than twenty years ago, Netezza was founded and created a hybrid hardware architecture that ran PostgreSQL on a big, wonking NUMA server running Linux and accelerated certain functions with adjunct accelerators that were themselves hybrid CPU-FPGA server blades that also stored the data. …
Accelerated Databases In The Fast Lane was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Ampere Reveals “Quicksilver” Altra Lineup, 128-Core “Mystique” Kicker
There are two Amperes in datacenter compute right now, and they are both gunning for Xeons. …
Ampere Reveals “Quicksilver” Altra Lineup, 128-Core “Mystique” Kicker was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Arm And Japan Get Their Day In The HPC Sun
There is a constant push and pull between budget and architecture in supercomputing, and the passing of time has not made anyone’s arms tired as yet on both sides of the bargaining table. …
Arm And Japan Get Their Day In The HPC Sun was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Conductor That Sets The Pace For Science At Oak Ridge
Every orchestra needs a conductor to keep everyone playing together on pace, and while a good conductor doesn’t need to know how to play every instrument well, they have to know how to play many instruments and also to understand how it all comes together to create a symphony. …
The Conductor That Sets The Pace For Science At Oak Ridge was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Taking A Deep Dive Into “Cooper Lake” Xeon SP Processors
Even before the coronavirus pandemic hit, Intel, the dominant maker of processors for servers on the planet, was rejiggering its product roadmaps behind the scenes in conjunction with its largest OEM partners as well the hyperscalers and large public cloud builders that drive about a third of its revenues these days. …
Taking A Deep Dive Into “Cooper Lake” Xeon SP Processors was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Great Scott: Spanning Supercomputing And Clouds
System architects that live in the Seattle area who don’t want to uproot their lives and move to California or Texas or New York or maybe possibly Illinois or Oregon or even overseas to Japan or China have a fairly small number of job opportunities. …
Great Scott: Spanning Supercomputing And Clouds was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
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.