There is some chatter – some might call it well-informed speculation – going on out there on the Intertubes that Japanese system maker NEC is shutting down its “Aurora” Vector Engine vector processor business. …
Is This The End Of The Line For NEC Vector Supercomputers? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Every year, a fairly large portion of the several tens of millions of servers running in the world needs to be replaced because the cost of using the old machinery can be higher than buying in the new machinery – and this can be true even if the old kit is entirely paid for and completely depreciated. …
More Power To You – Energy Efficiently was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If quantum computers are going to become a commercial thing sometime down the road – and there’s a lot of money and time going into the effort to make them viable for use by HPC organizations and enterprises – it’s increasingly likely that it will be in combination with classical computers. …
Preparing For Upcoming Hybrid Classical-Quantum Compute was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Last May, after we had done a deep dive on the “Hopper” H100 GPU accelerator architecture and as we were trying to reckon what Nvidia could charge for the PCI-Express and SXM5 variants of the GH100, we said that Nvidia needed to launch a Hopper-Hopper superchip. …
Nvidia’s Four Workhorses Of The AI Inference Revolution was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Nvidia is not rich enough – or dumb enough – to build a cloud to rival the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud. …
Nvidia Bends The Clouds To Its Own Financial Will was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Like the rest of the world, we have been watching Microsoft’s increasing use of foundation models as it transforms its services and software. …
Inside The Infrastructure That Microsoft Builds To Run AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For many years, and quite a long time ago in computer time, Hadoop was seen as the best way to store and analyze mountains of unstructured data. …
Taking Another Stab At Massively Parallel Data Analytics was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
HOT SEAT INTERVIEW: Will your smartphone break if you drop it? …
HPC in the cloud for FEA was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
Sponsored Post: As in so many other aspects of life, not all compute workloads are created equal – they need a more subtle approach to getting the best out of them which brings a more potent balance of hardware and software into the mix. …
The workload-first approach to CPU innovation was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
High performance computing workloads simulating all manner of things can produce a veritable mountain of data that has to be sifted through. …
Los Alamos Taps Seagate To Put Compute On Spinning Rust was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.
When it comes to chips, there is a big difference between a kicker and a fork. …
Fujitsu To Fork Arm Server Chip Line To Chase Clouds was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We talk about scale a lot here at The Next Platform, but there are many different aspects to this beyond lashing a bunch of nodes together and counting aggregate peak flops. …
DOE Wants A Hub And Spoke System Of HPC Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The years-long run-up to the first exascale supercomputers was really a story about the ongoing competition between the United States and China. …
Who’s Going To Build The UK’s Homegrown Exascale Supercomputer? was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Sponsored Feature: High performance computing continually sharpens the cutting edge of technology. …
Queuing For Time On A Supercomputer Shouldn’t Be An Engineering Problem was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
With each passing year, the phrase “The network is the computer,” coined in 1984 by John Gage, director of research and co-founder of Sun Microsystems, becomes more and more true. …
A Bumper Crop Of Ethernet Switches Harvested In Q4 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
About half as much. This is the pattern we have been seeing as many growing tech companies close out their 2022 or fiscal 2023 years and look ahead to their 2023 or fiscal 2024 years. …
Hashi Stack To Break $1 Billion, With Profits, In Two Years was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
ADVERTORIAL: The increasing need for more accurate weather modelling rears its head on an almost daily basis, as the changing global climate proves to be one of humanity’s greatest challenges. …
Faster and more accurate weather forecasting with HPC in the cloud was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
There is something weird about storage companies that were started around the same time as the Great Recession. …
The Tough Climb To Profitability For MongoDB was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We know, as you do, that artificial intelligence is driving a lot of spending at IT organizations and is probably the fundamental driver of spending by the hyperscalers and cloud builders that have, thus far, benefitted most from the machine learning revolution. …
Software Eats The World, And AI Eats Software was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Marvell has had a large and profitable I/O and networking silicon business for a long time, but with the acquisitions of Inphi in October 2020 and of Innovium in August 2021, the company is building a credible networking stack that can take on Broadcom, Cisco Systems, and Nvidia for the $1.3 billion or so in switch chips sold into the datacenter each year, which is growing at about 15 percent a year to more than $2 billion by 2026. …
Setting The Stage For 1.6T Ethernet, And Driving 800G Now was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.