Arm-based servers have had a somewhat checkered history that has seen many abortive attempts to challenge the X86 processor hegemony, but the firm appears bullish about its chances in the high performance computing (HPC) sector, where it believes its licensing model and the energy efficiency of its architecture give it an edge. …
Arm CPUs To Take A Bite Out Of The HPC Market was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.
The “Everest” family of hybrid compute engines made by Xilinx, which have lots of programmable logic surrounded by hardened transistor blocks and which are sold under the Versal brand, have been known for so long that we sometimes forget – or can’t believe – that Versal chips are not yet available as standalone products in the datacenter or within the Alveo line of PCI-Express cards from the chip maker. …
Xilinx Works From The Edge Towards Datacenters With Versal FPGA Hybrids was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In a relatively few short years, Kubernetes has become the de facto orchestration platform for managing software containers, besting a lineup that included such contenders as Docker Swarm and Mesosphere. …
As Kubernetes Matures, The Edge Needs Containment was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Only two quarters ago, AMD’s datacenter business – meaning sales of Epyc CPUs plus Instinct GPU accelerators – broke through $1 billion. …
AMD “Dimensions For Success” In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Server virtualization has been around a long time, has come to different classes of machines and architectures over the decades to drive efficiency increases, and has seemingly reached a level of maturity that means we don’t have to give it a lot of thought. …
A Complete Rethinking Of Server Virtualization Hypervisors was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
All of the commercial platform creators in the world, since the dawn of time, which arguably started in the enterprise in April 1964 with the advent of the System/360 mainframe, wants the same things. …
For IBM, AI Inference Is The Most Important HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Whenever one company buys another, every product line, every research project, and every employee is ultimately in play. …
Cray’s Slingshot Interconnect Is At The Heart Of HPE’s HPC And AI Ambitions was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The IT industry is at the doorstep of the long-awaited exascale era, which promises massive systems that can run at least one exaflops, or a quintillion (a billion billion) calculations per second, at 64-bit precision and a lot more than that at lower precision and even more using low-precision integer data pumped through their vector and matrix engines. …
HPC As A Service Comes Full Circle And Will Help Take HPC Mainstream was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There is a new tick–tock at work at chip maker Intel, and one that overlays the normal metronome cadence of manufacturing process shrinks and architecture advancement. …
Enterprises Fill In The Hyperscaler Gap For Intel’s Datacenter Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The company was named International Business Machines for a reason, and over the several decades that IBM concentrated on peddling managed services and consulting services to the largest corporations on Earth, with its Global Services behemoth representing two-thirds of its revenues, the company lost touch with, and took for granted, the machine part of its rich and long heritage. …
Can A Leaner IBM Be Mean Enough To Grow In The Datacenter? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For nearly two years, the world has been coping with the coronavirus pandemic and it has had obvious and consequential effects on the market for hardware, software, and services in the datacenter. …
The Future Comes Back Into The Equation For IT Spending was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you thought it took a lot of compute and storage to build Facebook’s social network, you ain’t seen nothing yet. …
Meta Buys, Rather Than Builds And Opens, Its Massive AI Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
PAID FEATURE In October 2021, in an incident lasting more than six hours, Facebook disappeared from the Internet. …
Why global DDoS protection is essential for Anycast networks was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
One of the oldest adages in the systems business is that customers don’t buy processors, but rather they buy roadmaps. …
In The Absence Of A Xeon Roadmap, Intel Makes Us Draw One was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The gradual trend of IT organizations spending more on dedicated or shared cloud infrastructure than they do on non-cloudy gear continues its inevitable, glacial transformation. …
As 2021 Wound Down, Big Clouds Did Record Spending On Infrastructure was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Most of the large companies and institutions we cover here at The Next Platform have already been in the AI/ML trenches, particularly the hyperscale web and media companies (where much of this work began) and in high performance computing. …
Aspiration Versus Action for Enterprise AI was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
In its short lifetime, Vast Data has been able to put its stamp on a fast-changing data storage market. …
Vast Data Eyes A Role In The Datacenter Beyond Storage was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Not every manufacturing node comes out perfectly and not every one comes out on time, but in the past decade and a half, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the world’s largest and most technologically advanced etcher of chips in the world, has done far better than any of its few remaining peers to push the chip manufacturing envelope while also maintaining consistent and profitable production of older nodes. …
The Money Printing Press That Is Chip Maker TSMC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Paid Feature There are many ways to scale up and scale out systems, and that is a problem as much as it is a solution for distributed systems architects. …
Composing The Impossible Server was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The big three clouds – Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud – are all addressing the same issues of scale, performance, and economics and are also trying to attract the same workloads from the same pool of enterprise, government, and academic customers. …
Sacrificing Some Performance To Make Cloud Data Analytics Portable was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.