There is a likelihood that we could see both British chip designer Arm Holdings and one of its server-focused startup adherents, Ampere Computing, go public this year, as indicated by recent rumors of the first and news from Ampere itself this morning that it has confidentially filed for an initial public offering. …
Ampere’s IPO Filing Signals More Arm Cash And More Arm Scrutiny was written by Dylan Martin at The Next Platform.
The hyperscalers have taught us many lessons in the past two decades, and one of them is that everything that can be defined in software should be so that it can be controlled automatically and programmatically – and that goes double for hardware, which has required so much human babysitting over the decades. …
Expanding DevOps With Infrastructure As Code was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Let the era of 3D V-Cache in HPC begin.
Inspired by the idea of AMD’s “Milan-X” Epyc 7003 processors with their 3D V-Cache stacked L3 cache memory and then propelled by actual benchmark tests pitting regular Milan CPUs against Milan-X processors using real-world and synthetic HPC applications, researchers at RIKEN Lab in Japan, where the “Fugaku” supercomputer based on Fujitsu’s impressive A64FX vectorized Arm server chip, have fired up a simulation of a hypothetical A64FX follow-on that could, in theory, be built in 2028 and provide nearly an order of magnitude more performance than the current A64FX. …
Stacking Up L2 Cache, RIKEN Shows 10X Speedup For A64FX By 2028 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Industry benchmarks are important because, no matter that comparisons are odious, IT organizations nonetheless have to make them to plot out the architectures of their future systems. …
The Performance Of MLPerf As A Ubiquitous Benchmark Is Lacking was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
To a certain extent, the only thing that really matters in a computing system is what changes in its memory, and to that extent, this is what makes computers like us. …
The HBM3 Roadmap Is Just Getting Started was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
To Gerrit Kazmaier, the distinction between managed databases and data lakes has never made much sense, and it makes even less sense today as data is piling up like soaring mountains being pushed up by tectonic forces. …
Google BigLake Stretches BigQuery Across All Data was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
For those looking to try out Fujitsu’s Arm-based PRIMEHPC FX1000 system, the company is opening up the same capabilities via its own cloud service. …
Fujitsu Cloud Service to Put Fugaku Supercomputer in Reach was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Wouldn’t it be funny if Google ends up being the stalwart supporter of the X86 architecture among the hyperscalers and cloud builders? …
The Looming Arm Server Battle Between AWS And Microsoft was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
At some point, if Microsoft has its way, a substantial amount of computing that enterprise end users do on PCs could end up running in the cloud, and that could have a dramatic effect on the depth and breadth of the Azure cloud. …
How Much Will Windows 365 PCs Drive Azure Infrastructure? was written by Brandon Vigliarolo at The Next Platform.
Fresh off a record revenue quarter, Lenovo plans to add 12,000 R&D staff members to their global ranks over the next three years, according to the company’s Chairman and CEO, Yuanqing Yang. …
Lenovo Pushes Record Revenue into New R&D was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Lisa Su has had the datacenter in her sights since taking over as president and chief executive officer of AMD in 2014, charting a course that would allow the processor to once again become a factor in the global server market after a decade or so in the wilderness following its brief but high-profile breakthrough with its first Opteron processor in 2003. …
AMD Makes A Big DPU Move With $1.9 Billion Bid For Pensando was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
When Nvidia announced a deal to buy Mellanox Technologies for $6.9 billion in March 2019, everyone spent a lot of time thinking about the synergies between the two companies and how networking was going to become an increasingly important part of the distributed systems that run HPC and AI workloads. …
Spectrum-4 Ethernet Leaps To 800G With Nvidia Circuits was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
With HPC and AI workloads only getting larger and demanding more compute power and bandwidth capabilities, system architects are trying to map out the best ways to feed the beast as they ponder future systems. …
Putting Composability Through The Paces On HPC Systems was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
With each passing generation of GPU accelerator engines from Nvidia, machine learning drives more and more of the architectural choices and changes and traditional HPC simulation and modeling drives less and less. …
Deep Dive Into Nvidia’s “Hopper” GPU Architecture was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Virtualization has been an engine of efficiency in the IT industry over the past two decades, decoupling workloads from the underlying hardware and thus allowing multiple workloads to be consolidated into a single physical system as well as moved around relatively easily with live migration of virtual machines. …
Will Open Compute Backing Drive SIOV Adoption? was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.
There may not be as much structured data in the world as there is unstructured data, but one could easily argue that the structured data – mostly purchasing transactions and other kinds of historical data data stored in systems of record – is at least of equal value. …
Revving Up Relational Databases For Scorching Native AI Performance was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Paid Feature Over the last several years, the limiting factors to large-scale AI/ML were first hardware capabilities, followed by the scalability of complex software frameworks. …
Liquid Cooling Is The Next Key To Future AI Growth was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
Remember when only a couple of variations of processors were available for servers in any given generation of server CPUs? …
The Mass Customization Wave Is Starting For Servers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is the nature of capability class supercomputers to try to push the envelope on as many different architectural fronts as possible. …
Early Frontier Supercomputer Tests Show Decent Performance Leaps was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Within a year or so, with the launch of the “Grace” Arm server CPUs, it will not be heresy for anyone at Nvidia to believe, or to say out loud, that not every workload in the datacenter needs to have GPU acceleration. …
Nvidia Embraces The CPU World With “Grace” Arm Server Chip was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.