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The Computing Needs Of Earth Are Not Yet Satisfied
To a certain way of looking at it, Nvidia has always been engaged in the high performance computing business and it has always been subject to the same kinds of cyclical waves that affect makers of supercomputers and enterprise systems. …
The Computing Needs Of Earth Are Not Yet Satisfied was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
IBM Mashes Up PowerAI And Watson Machine Learning Stacks
Earlier in this decade, when the hyperscalers and the academics that run with them were building machine learning frameworks to transpose all kinds of data from one format to another – speech to text, text to speech, image to text, video to text, and so on – they were doing so not just for scientific curiosity. …
IBM Mashes Up PowerAI And Watson Machine Learning Stacks was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Shasta Sets Up Cray For Commercial HPC And Supercomputing Expansion
If you look at the very long history of Cray, the company has done a remarkable job expanding its market, not just participating in it. …
Shasta Sets Up Cray For Commercial HPC And Supercomputing Expansion was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
IBM Puffs Up Power Iron On Its Public Cloud
IBM, which arguably has the largest remaining big iron server business in the world, is one step closer to making systems based on its own Power processors peers to the Xeon-based machinery that utterly dominates its IBM Cloud public cloud. …
IBM Puffs Up Power Iron On Its Public Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
PCI-Express Lends Server Composability A Hand
Applications do not need to use all elements of a system all the time, and usually not all at the same time for that matter. …
PCI-Express Lends Server Composability A Hand was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Will The Harmonic Convergence Of HPC And AI Last?
History and economics – as if you could separate the two – are burgeoning with examples of products being developed for one task and then being used, perhaps after some tweaking, for an entirely new and usually unexpected task. …
Will The Harmonic Convergence Of HPC And AI Last? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
When Does AWS Break Through $100 Billion?
While there is no question that Amazon Web Services is the largest and most profitable public cloud on planet earth, and that it provides the best subsidy imaginable for a cut-throat online retail business that is its parent company, AWS has not taken over the entire IT world any more than Amazon has become the sole place to buy stuff. …
When Does AWS Break Through $100 Billion? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Acquisition Rumors Abound As Mellanox Rings Up Record Sales
There hardly seems to be a month that doesn’t go by without a different IT supplier being rumored to want to acquire network chip and system provider Mellanox Technologies, which has an intense focus on the high end, scale out, low latency segment of the datacenter switching market. …
Acquisition Rumors Abound As Mellanox Rings Up Record Sales was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Hyperscaler And Cloud Server Feeding Frenzy Abates
For the first time in a very long time, and even including the Great Recession, chip maker Intel booked less revenue in the fourth quarter of the year than it did in the third quarter of that same year. …
Hyperscaler And Cloud Server Feeding Frenzy Abates was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Aspiring To Be The Windows, Not The Linux, Of Networks
Anyone operating at network at scale almost has to, by definition, hack together their own network operating system. …
Aspiring To Be The Windows, Not The Linux, Of Networks was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Unified Memory: The Final Piece Of The GPU Programming Puzzle
Support for unified memory across CPUs and GPUs in accelerated computing systems is the final piece of a programming puzzle that we have been assembling for about ten years now. …
Unified Memory: The Final Piece Of The GPU Programming Puzzle was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Playing The Long Game In Systems
The secret to the longevity of any big corporation is a nearly constant process of reinvention. …
Playing The Long Game In Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
DOE’s E4S Software Stack Takes An Extreme Step Towards Exascale
For exascale hardware to be useful, systems software is going to have to be stacked up and optimized to bend that hardware to the will of applications. …
DOE’s E4S Software Stack Takes An Extreme Step Towards Exascale was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Peering Into The Future Of Machine Learning Hardware
If you want to see what the future of iron to support machine learning looks like, then perhaps the best place to look at what the hyperscalers and cloud builders who account for the vast majority of processing and applications in this field are deploying. …
Peering Into The Future Of Machine Learning Hardware was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Burying The OpenMP Versus OpenACC Hatchet
I have been frequently asked when the OpenMP and OpenACC directive APIs for parallel programming will merge, or when will one of them (usually OpenMP) will replace the other. …
Burying The OpenMP Versus OpenACC Hatchet was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Spanning The Database World With Google
If relational databases had just worked at scale to begin with, the IT sector would be a whole lot more boring and we wouldn’t be having conversation a conversation with Andrew Fikes, the vice president and Engineering Fellow at search engine, application, and cloud computing giant Google who has been instrumental in the creation of many of its databases and datastores since joining the company in 2001. …
Spanning The Database World With Google was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The Slow But Inevitable Shift To Cloudy Infrastructure
Architectural transitions for layers in the IT stack at hyperscalers can happen in a matter of years, and cloud builders and HPC centers can move at almost the same speed. …
The Slow But Inevitable Shift To Cloudy Infrastructure was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Two Thirds of The Way Home With Exascale Programming
To effectively make use of the level of concurrency in forthcoming exascale systems – hundreds of thousands of compute elements with millions of threads – requires some new thinking, both by programmers and in development tools. …
Two Thirds of The Way Home With Exascale Programming was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Huawei Jumps Into The Arm Server Chip Fray
Arm chip designers who make processors for mobile devices, such as Apple, Samsung, and Qualcomm, that do not have pre-existing server businesses have been skittish about entering the server fray with heftier versions of their Arm chips for datacenter compute. …
Huawei Jumps Into The Arm Server Chip Fray was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
IBM Bets On Samsung Fabs For Power10 Chips
When Globalfoundries decided to stop its development and rollout of both immersion lithography and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography at the 7 nanometer process node back in August, it looked as if IBM, second only to AMD as a server chip customer for its most advanced fab in Malta, New York, would be left in a lurch with its future Power processors. …
IBM Bets On Samsung Fabs For Power10 Chips was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .