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Operating A Campus-Wide HPC Center Like An Enterprise
For those involved with large-scale system planning, design, and procurement for campus-wide supercomputers, the target is balance. …
Operating A Campus-Wide HPC Center Like An Enterprise was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Everybody Has Big Data – How To Cope With It
Enterprises are awash in data, and though many are tempted to save it all for later analysis – after all it worked for Google for many years – the store then analyze approach is poorly suited to environments with data sources that never stop. …
Everybody Has Big Data – How To Cope With It was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Looking Ahead To Marvell’s Future ThunderX Processors
If you are going to take on Intel in server processors, you have to play the same kind of long game that Intel itself played as it jumped from the desktop to the datacenter. …
Looking Ahead To Marvell’s Future ThunderX Processors was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Datacenters Are Hungry For Servers Again
Server consumption is a pretty good proxy for how enterprises of all shapes and sizes feel about their particular business. …
Datacenters Are Hungry For Servers Again was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Time Is Always Money, Especially With HPC On The Cloud
Systems management has always been in a race to catch up with the innovation in systems, and it is always nipping at the heels. …
Time Is Always Money, Especially With HPC On The Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Finally: AWS Gives Servers A Real Shot In The Arm
Finally, we get to test out how well or poorly a well-designed Arm server chip will do in the datacenter. …
Finally: AWS Gives Servers A Real Shot In The Arm was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Taking The PCI Express To Malleable Systems
It took decades for server virtualization to go mainstream, making their way from hardware and software partitions on mainframes three decades ago down to proprietary and Unix systems two decades ago to X86 servers with VMware, XenServer, Microsoft, and Red Hat all doing their part. …
Taking The PCI Express To Malleable Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Bending The Supercomputing Cost Curve Down
One of the recurring themes at the recent HPC Day event that we hosted ahead of the SC19 supercomputing conference in Denver was that capability class supercomputers are getting more and more expensive. …
Bending The Supercomputing Cost Curve Down was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Holding The Line In The Enterprise
The profit pools in datacenter infrastructure are a bit like oases in the desert: There are a lot of miles between them, and some of them turn out to be mirages. …
Holding The Line In The Enterprise was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Talking System Architecture With AMD CTO Mark Papermaster
It is funny to think that in a certain light, AMD has Big Blue to thank for its resurgence in the datacenter. …
Talking System Architecture With AMD CTO Mark Papermaster was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Doing The Math On Future Exascale Supercomputers
We are not shy of playing guessing games here at The Next Platform, as you all well know. …
Doing The Math On Future Exascale Supercomputers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
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.