There was an outside chance that China might pull a surprise on the HPC community and launch the first true exascale system – meaning capable of more than 1 exaflops of peak theoretical 64-bit floating point performance if you want to be generous, and 1 exaflops sustained on the High Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark if you don’t – but that didn’t happen. …
Waiting – Not Precisely Patiently – For Exascale was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If we could take the Fugaku supercomputer out of the HPC market equation and while we were at it, pretend the pandemic never happened, the supercomputing market would be much easier to pin down. …
Exascale Machines Skew HPC Growth Projections was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Almost three years ago, we wrote about Dell Technologies’ efforts to reassert itself into the HPC and supercomputing arena in a big way. …
Dell’s Omnia HPC Software Play was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Sponsored By its very nature, high performance computing is an expensive proposition compared to other kinds of computing. …
HPE GreenLake: The HPC Cloud That Comes To You was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Isn’t it funny how the same hyperscalers who are maniacal about building everything themselves – and who are making a fortune selling access to their infrastructure as cloud services – want you to use their Seriously Hard Information Technology and stop using your own? …
The Many Other High Costs Cloud Users Pay was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Like its U.S. counterpart, Google, Baidu has made significant investments to build robust, large-scale systems to support global advertising programs. …
A Look at Baidu’s Industrial-Scale GPU Training Architecture was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Not so very long ago, distributed computing meant clustering together a bunch of cheap X86 servers and equipping them with some form of middleware that allowed for work to be distributed across hundreds to thousands to sometimes tens of thousands of nodes. …
Enfabrica Takes On Hyperdistributed I/O Bottlenecks was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Current custom AI hardware devices are built around super-efficient, high performance matrix multiplication. …
What Happens When Multipliers No Longer Define AI Accelerators? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Whenever something is not working, you change it. Sometimes, you glue things together to create some sort of synergy and then you pull them apart to get some sort of necessary focus. …
Intel Reorg Puts Gelsinger Firmly In Control Of The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Everybody wants to build a platform, hence the name of this publication. …
Nvidia Expands AI Stack, Stretches From Cloud To Co-Location was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The era of vector supercomputing might sound like ancient history to some but it’s still deeply rooted in major commercial and government institutions. …
U.S. Military Looks to NEC to Salvage (Way) Legacy Codes was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The hybrid cloud is convincing established players that they need to play on both sides of the net, in the cloud (as well as the edge) and on premises. …
HPE Builds Lighthouse Platform On GreenLake Services was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The Fugaku supercomputer, based on the Arm-driven A64FX processor and custom Fujitsu Tofu-D fabric, has been proven architecturally on a number of HPC and large-scale AI benchmarks and has drawn considerable attention among the supercomputing set. …
U.S. Institutions Put Fujitsu A64FX Through the Paces was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
In a world where Moore’s Law is slowing and hardware has to be increasingly co-designed with the system software stack and the applications that run above it, the matrix of possible combinations of hardware is getting wider and deeper. …
Google Does The Server Math With Tau Cloud Instances was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Lenovo became a powerhouse in the HPC and supercomputer spaces back in 2014, when it bought IBM’s System x server division for $2.1 billion in a deal that also saw it license storage and system management software from Big Blue. …
Lenovo Gives SuperMUC-NG Supercomputer An Upgrade was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The amount of data being created is continuing to rise exponentially and it’s coming in all shapes and sizes and from myriad locations. …
Think Locally About Data Management, But Act Globally was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center (EPPC) is up and running with its Cerebras CS-1 waferscale system and is already working with European companies in biomedical and cybersecurity arenas in addition to its own research into different programming and AI models and projects in natural language processing and genome-wide association studies. …
EPCC Kicking Tires on New CS-1 AI System was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
There’s an AI unicorn startup you might not have even heard of. …
Preferred Networks Becoming Japan’s Industrial AI Powerhouse was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
While a lot of software for creating and managing scale comes out of supercomputing centers, hyperscalers, and the largest public cloud builders, there is still plenty of innovation being done by people who need to tackle scale outside of these upper echelon organizations. …
Forget Mesos And OpenStack, Hashi Stack Is The New Next Platform was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We said this a long time ago, and we are going to say it again now. …
Intel Braces For DPU Hit, Awaits Jevon’s Paradox Bounce was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.