If you need any proof that it doesn’t take the most advanced chip manufacturing processes to create an exascale-class supercomputer, you need look no further than the Sunway “OceanLight” system housed at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, China. …
How China Made An Exascale Supercomputer Out Of Old 14 Nanometer Tech was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There are people who build big machines and then there are people who create the algorithms, libraries, and applications that harness them. …
Looking For A Singularity Event For Scientific Computing was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
There is a lot of chatter this week about optical communications with the OFC2022 conference being held in San Diego. …
Talking Silicon Photonics Signal And Noise With Andy Bechtolsheim was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Some of the most important luminaries in the HPC sector have spoken from on high, and their conclusions about the future of the HPC market are probably going to shock a lot of people. …
Will HPC Be Eaten By Hyperscalers And Clouds? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When it comes to memory for compute engines, FPGAs – or rather what we have started calling hybrid FPGAs because they have all kinds of hard coded logic as well as the FPGA programmable logic on a single package – have the broadest selection of memory types of any kind of device out there. …
A Cornucopia Of Memory And Bandwidth In The Agilex-M FPGA was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
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With ROCm Software And Instinct MI200 GPUs, AMD Has Ecosystem Critical Mass was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In case it is not immediately obvious, over the past decade Nvidia has been transforming itself from a component supplier into a complete platform provider. …
With Excelero Storage, Nvidia Owns A Nearly Complete HPC/AI Stack was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Voltron Data officially launched last month with a mission to make Apache Arrow easier to use for big data analytics projects, and in particular to focus on improving interoperability with other systems. …
Breaking Data Silos Open With An Apache Arrow Platform was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.
It is a tough environment for a lot of enterprises right now, and has been since the advent of the coronavirus pandemic more than two years ago. …
With Systems, HPE Walks The Line Between Demand And Supply was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Since modern machine learning came onto the scene, the push has been on to make workloads leveraging the technologies as efficient as possible. …
More Efficient AI Training With A Systolic Neural CPU was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The 3D stacking of chips has been the subject of much speculation and innovation in the past decade, and we will be the first to admit that we have been mostly thinking about this as a way to cram more capacity into a given compute engine while at the same time getting components closer together along the Z axis and not just working in 2D anymore down on the X and Y axes. …
GraphCore Goes 3D With AI Chips, Architects 10 Exaflops Ultra-Intelligent Machine was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
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Driving Towards An Automated Network Future? Make Sure You’ve Packed Your Business Case was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
Object storage has been drawing an increasing level of interest from organizations over the past several years as a convenient way to store and manage the growing quantities of data they are accumulating, especially when that may be a mix of structured and unstructured data and a lot of machine-generated telemetry. …
Australia’s NCI Adds Ceph Object Storage To Lustre File Systems was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.
Historically, the largest organizations in the world – the Global 2000 plus the biggest national government and academic research institutions – have always had the most complex data processing needs. …
Cerebras Shows Off Scale Up AI Performance For Big Pharma And Big Oil was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When the hyperscalers, the major datacenter compute engine suppliers, and the three remaining foundries with advanced node manufacturing capabilities launch a standard together on Day One, this is an unusual, significant, and pleasant surprise. …
Industry Behemoths Back Intel’s Universal Chiplet Interconnect was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When it comes to application acceleration, having a deep understanding of the complex algorithms that underly most HPC and AI applications is perhaps the most important thing that can be brought to bear. …
Groq Buys Maxeler For Its HPC And AI Dataflow Expertise was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Renee James knows about processors and she knows about the cloud. …
Designing Chips With The Cloud And Edge In Mind was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
We are still chewing through some of the announcements that came out of Intel Investor Day and the ISSCC 2022 chip conference, and one of the things we want to circle back on is the “Falcon Shores” hybrid CPU-GPU that Intel is working on for future servers. …
Aurora In A Socket: What Intel’s “Falcon Shores” XPU Might Do was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
What is the most important product that comes out of the semiconductor industry? …
SysMoore: The Next 10 Years, The Next 1,000X In Performance was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There are so many barriers to capacity increases in high performance computing systems that it would take a long time to rattle them off. …
HPE Taps Ayar Labs To Add Silicon Photonics To Slingshot Interconnect was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.