Deepak Patil knows all about the cloud. For the last third of his more than 15 years with Microsoft, Patil was one of the key figures behind the launch of Azure, the enterprise software giant’s public cloud. …
Dell: Living On The Edge With Its Head In The Clouds was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
There are some unique developments afoot at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), which stands to reason for the only HPC site to be housed in a former church. …
Cortus Hopes to Stake Early RISC-V HPC Claim was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Businesses are judged quarter on quarter and year on year, but you have to look at the long haul and the flow of all business over time to really judge properly. …
Server Budgets On The Mend As Pandemic Tries To End was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
PROMO Today’s AI and HPC systems can encompass 1,000s of CPUs and GPUs, all drawing on vast amounts of memory and storage. …
Flaky I/O Getting You Down? This Panel Promises Some Light Relief was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
The tight linkage between chip designs and chip manufacturing processes has caused its shared of havoc in the IT sector, and it is getting worse as Moore’s Law has slowed and Dennard scaling died a decade ago. …
Why IBM Is Suing GlobalFoundries Over Chip Roadmap Failures was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Moore’s Law is not just a simple rule of thumb about transistor counts, it’s an economic, technical, and developmental force—and one strong enough to push some of the largest chipmakers to future-proof architectural approaches. …
AMD on Why Chiplets—And Why Now was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
If the workload-specific datacenter dominates in the near term, it could be RISC-V’s time to shine. …
AI Is RISC-V’s Trojan Horse into the Datacenter was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Last week, we introduced the Perlmutter supercomputer, the next-gen system at NERSC that will likely secure the #5 spot on the Top 500 list of the world’s most powerful machines. …
A 35 Petabyte All-Flash Balancing Act was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
When Gajen Kandiah took over as CEO of Hitachi Vantara a year ago after almost 15 years with IT services company Cognizant, he found a company with a deep history in the data storage space, growing strength in services and a presence in the fast-growing edge computing realm. …
Pulling All The Pieces Together at Hitachi Vantara was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Amber Huffman and Peter Onufryk never could have imagined the little 100-page specification they worked on a decade ago would become a wide standard from phones and tables up to the largest datacenters in the world. …
NVMe 2.0 Firms Foundation for Future Storage Shifts was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
What is a legacy data management and data analytics platform with 1,800 large enterprise customers worth? …
Why Cloudera Might Be Worth $5.3 Billion After All was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Back in its earliest days, hyperconverged infrastructure was seen primarily as a consolidation play, a way to bring together compute, storage, networking and management together into a single package and offset some of the rising costs and complexities in enterprise datacenters. …
Separating Compute And Storage In Hyperconverged Infrastructure was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The so-called “Magnificent 7” or “Super 8” hyperscalers and cloud builders of the world may comprise a substantial slice of worldwide sales of servers, storage, and networking, and the cloud capacity and hyperscale services they provide may in turn represent a significant – but nowhere near dominant – chunk of overall IT spending. …
A Tale Of Two Enterprise IT Beasties was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
While the pandemic provided a funding boost to research supercomputing and life sciences HPC, the next wave of investments in HPC systems and simulation software might come from the rapidly evolving hypersonics space. …
Hypersonics Could Fuel Next Wave of HPC Investment was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
While there are not many neuromorphic hardware makers, those on the market (or in the research device sphere) are still looking for ways to run more mainstream workloads. …
MPI on Neuromorphic Hardware Shows Greater Promise was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Designing a great CPU or GPU, or even an FPGA or a custom ASIC like a switch or router chip, is an important aspect of creating ever-more-powerful systems. …
AMD Wants To Put Together The Complete Package was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
And you thought toilet paper shortages were bad in the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, or board and plywood prices are high and getting insane at the local hardware depot that you already spent too much money at. …
When The Chips Are Down And Prices Go Up was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Any tech startup that wants to live beyond is seed and venture funding rounds and make it to either an initial public offering or an acquisition by a company threatened by their very existence has to do two things. …
The Ampere Arm Server Chip Roadmap May Lead Beyond Hyperscalers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Data movement is the king of all challenges for supercomputing sites to hyperscale datacenters. …
Testing the Limits of the BlueField-2 SmartNIC was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
It’s a cliché that the pandemic has changed the way we work forever, but it has certainly turned the spotlight on technologies, processes and practices that have reached the end of their useful life. …
Making Datacenter Networking as Consumable as Compute was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.