After almost two years with data storage giant Western Digital, Ashley Gorakhpurwalla is getting used to the questions. …
Hard Drives Are The Mark Twain Of Technology was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Perhaps Janet Jackson should be the official spokesperson of the supercomputing industry. …
So, You Think You Can Design A 20 Exaflops Supercomputer? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Both Hewlett-Packard and Compaq, which also included parallel database system maker Tandem and minicomputer innovator Digital Equipment Corp when HP bought Compaq for $25 billion back in September 2001, had histories as platform providers but the combined companies were not able to create on the X86 platform the kinds of venerable platforms such as the HP 3000 and DEC VAX and AlphaServer minicomputers, the HP 9000 Unix systems, or the Tandem NonStop systems. …
GreenLake: Finally, A Platform That HPE Utterly Controls was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has been an early and enthusiastic supporter of alternate processor architectures outside of the standard Xeon X86 CPUs that comprise the vast majority of its revenues and shipments, particularly with Arm server chips starting in 2011. …
HPE Is The First Big OEM To Adopt Ampere Computing Arm Chips was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Until exascale supercomputers get a lot cheaper, which will allow weather forecasting models to run at a much smaller resolution – and more frequently – to deliver hyper-local weather forecasts, the actual weather forecasting is still going to be done by people. …
NOAA Gets 3X More Oomph For Weather Forecasting; It Needs 3,300X was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Enterprises have been shifting many of their workloads into the cloud to take advantage of the scalability, efficiencies, and economics those environments offer. …
Project Arctic Means VMware Doesn’t Get Left Out In the Hybrid Cold was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
It may have taken a while for the transition to 200 Gb/sec and 400 Gb/sec networking to take off in the datacenter, but this higher gear to switching is finally kicking in and delivering unprecedented bang for the buck in networks, and in fairly short order at least compared to sluggish pace that 100 Gb/sec Ethernet took getting into the datacenter. …
The Faster The Switch, The Cheaper Bit Flits was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In the past several decades, data processing and storage systems could be architected from best of breed components, and the market could – and did – sustain multiple suppliers of competing technologies in each of the categories of compute, networking, and storage. …
AMD Needs To Complete The Datacenter Set With Switching was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The ink is barely dry on the PCI-Express 6.0 specification, which was released after years of development in January 2022, we hardly have PCI-Express 5.0 peripherals in the market, and the PCI-SIG organization that controls the PCI-Express standard for peripheral interconnects already has us all coveting the bandwidth that will come later in the decade with PCI-Express 7.0 interconnects. …
The Path Is Set For PCI-Express 7.0 In 2025 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In March 2020, when Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced the exascale “El Capitan” supercomputer contract had been awarded to system builder Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which was also kicking in its “Rosetta” Slingshot 11 interconnect and which was tapping future CPU and GPU compute engines from AMD, the HPC center was very clear that it would be using off-the-shelf, commodity parts from AMD, not custom compute engines. …
Lawrence Livermore’s “El Capitan” To Take AMD’s Instinct APU Mainstream was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Decades of cloud collaborations and optimizations have brought solid performance and cost efficiencies to cloud. …
For HPC Cloud, The Underlying Hardware Will Always Matter was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
It is relatively easy to get a group of people that creates a new database management system or new data store. …
Bridging The Gap Between Open Source Database And Database Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A decade ago, Fangjin “FJ” Yang was a software architect at startup Metamarkets, a company that was building a user-facing analytics engine that a lot of developers simultaneously could go to, click on a UI, and very quickly get answers to their questions. …
Apache Druid Takes Its Place In The Pantheon Of Databases was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
We have been excited about the possibilities of adding tiers of memory to systems, particularly persistent memories that are less expensive than DRAM but offer similar-enough performance and functionality to be useful. …
Meta Platforms Hacks CXL Memory Tier Into Linux was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, which is steering the development and funding for pre-exascale and exascale supercomputing in the European Union, has had a busy week. …
Atos Wins MareNostrum 5 Deal At Barcelona Supercomputing Center was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Exascale supercomputing is just as important to Europe as it is to the United States and China, but each of these geopolitical regions on Earth has its own way of developing architectures, funding their development and production, and figuring out where the best HPC centers are to host such machines to maximize their effectiveness. …
Who Will Build Europe’s First Exascale Supercomputer – And With What, And Why? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
After its acquisitions of ATI in 2006 and the maturation of its discrete GPUs with the Instinct line from the past few years and the acquisitions of Xilinx and Pensando here in 2022, AMD is not just a second source of X86 processors. …
Chip Roadmaps Unfold, Crisscrossing And Interconnecting, At AMD was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Like others in the datacenter infrastructure space, Cisco Systems has had a front-row seat to the rapid changes in enterprise tech, from the accelerating adoption of the multicloud model to the increasing decentralization of the IT environment, rippling out to the network edge. …
Controlling The Network When You Don’t Own All Of It was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Marvell Technology is the latest chipmaker to join the emerging Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCI-Express) consortium, which is working toward an open interconnect standard for chiplet architectures. …
Marvell Throws Hat Into Intel’s Universal Chiplet Interconnect Ring was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.
IT organizations, especially the key hyperscalers and cloud builders, don’t buy point products, they buy roadmaps. …
AMD Roadmaps Lead To Mountains Of Money was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.