While a lot of ideas are ancient, some are relatively new and can come from only a modern context. …
One On One With Jensen Huang: Nvidia, The Platform Company was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
“Times were simpler not so long ago” is an understatement these days, but when it comes to supercomputing, this has yet another meaning. …
Porting to AMD GPUs in the Corona Age was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
If you are fairly new to the IT racket, you might be under the impression that the waves of integration and disaggregation in compute, networking, and storage that swept over the datacenter in recent decades were all new, that somehow the issues of complexity and cost did not plague systems of the past. …
Why The DPU Is More Important Than The CPU For Nvidia was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When it comes to novel computing architectures, whether in quantum, deep learning, or neuromorphic, it can be tricky to get a handle on how incremental improvements in processor counts translate to real world improvements since these bumps in element counts often don’t have perfect parallels to CPUs or even GPUs. …
On the Fringes of Useful Neuromorphic Scalability was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
When you come to the crossroads and make a big decision about selling your soul to the devil to get what you want, it is supposed to be a dramatic event, the stuff that legends are made of. …
With “Crossroads” Supercomputer, HPE Notches Another DOE Win was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
People in the modern era sometimes forget that networking predates the rise of Cisco Systems and the commercialization of the Internet. …
It’s Back To The Future For Omni-Path InfiniBand was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AI is too hard for most enterprises to adopt, just like HPC was and continues to be. …
VMware Embraces Nvidia GPUs, DPUs To Drive Enterprise AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
D-Wave today announced another milestone in its quest to keep adding qubits, jumping from the previous generation 2000 qubit device to one with 5000. …
Testing the Limits of a Quantum Hardware Market was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
If you wanted to wrest control of datacenter compute as embodied mainly in the Xeon SP processor away from Intel, there are a number of approaches that you might take. …
Betting On Mass Customization In A Post Moore’s Law World was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Back in October 2019 when the world was normal and it felt perfectly reasonable to look forward to a slew of AI events that would showcase the newest developments from the chip startup world, we talked about Groq and its inference-oriented chip. …
Groq Shares Recipe for TSP Nodes, Systems was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Few of the AI hardware startups that have made it through the first round of reality (roughly 2016 until the present) have managed to navigate the choppy waters without shifting course, sometimes wildly. …
Another Strange Shift for the AI Chip Startup Segment was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
For those who have followed the evolution of supercomputing over the years, the Earth Simulator series of systems has represented the state of the art in workload-oriented design. …
Pure Vector Engines Get GPU Math Help for Next Earth Simulator was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
For Karan Batta, the much-talked-about wide adoption of cloud computing in the HPC space is really like a game of dominos. …
Oracle Makes Its Prognostications For HPC In The Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
If you reduce systems down to their bare essentials, everything exists in those systems to manipulate data in memory, and like human beings, all that really exists for any of us is what is in memory. …
The Era Of Big Memory Is Upon Us was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Can Nvidia jump the regulatory hurdles to capture Arm—and how?; OpenCAPI is the right answer for memory and I/O—so what’s missing?; …
Next Platform TV for September 22, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
When Arm began its pursuit of the datacenter a decade ago, the idea behind offering a low-power architecture as an alternative to Intel and is Xeon product line made sense. …
Arm Expands Its Server Universe With Updated Neoverse Roadmap was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
On today’s program we landed a couple of unplanned themes; namely silicon photonics and its role in both quantum and AI architectures. …
Next Platform TV for September 17, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
On today’s program, some kickoff analysis of the Nvidia/Arm deal; a look at geospatial AI and what it requires in terms of future hardware and frameworks; physics-informed AI and what it means for future simulations and use cases; the Summit supercomputer and the “right” architecture for large-scale, multidisciplinary COVID-19 research; the elements of a hyperconverged data platform; infrastructure as code; much more in today’s interview lineup. …
Next Platform TV for September 15, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
For more than two decades, VMware has made its money sensing the direction that enterprise IT is going and getting there before they do with products to addressing their needs. …
VMware Bets On Enterprises Wanting Kubernetes And Virtualization Mashup was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Companies with high stock valuations are a bit like the central banks of major countries. …
Now Nvidia Is Armed To The Teeth was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.