While the related topics of fault tolerance and resiliency do not garner the same attention as performance and efficiency, being able to recover from and work around failures, especially as applications take over ever-large and increasingly heterogenous machines, is more important than ever. …
Who Shoulders the Supercomputing Resiliency Burden? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Software may be eating the world, as Marc Andreessen correctly asserted nearly a decade ago, but some parts of the world are crunchier than others and take some time for the hardware to be smashed open and for software to flow in and out of it. …
Software Is Eating Every Layer Of The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Medical imaging technologies are invaluable tools in the diagnosis and treatment of patients, allowing healthcare professionals to non-invasively see what lies deep inside the body, identify any disease and/or abnormalities, and determine appropriate treatments. …
The Power of AR and AI in Medical Context was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Unless you work at an IT-sophisticated HPC or enterprise shop with a long-term view on high performance storage, you probably well understand the “just in time” nature of storage procurement. …
The Right Hammer for “Cobbled Storage” was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
There could be a new era of codesign dawning for machine learning, one that moves away from the training and inference separations and toward far less dense networks with highly sparse weights and activations. …
Reimagining Accelerators with Sparsity at the Core was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Although there are now well-engineered systems that tightly package compute, acceleration, and data movement for deep learning training, for some users, working on time-critical AI training (and constant retraining), the backend applications and frameworks require a different way of thinking. …
Evolving GPUs Power Content Recommendation at Scale was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Global positioning systems (GPS) are in the crosshairs for quantum computing investment from the U.S. …
U.S. Air Force Research Locates Possibilities in Quantum at the Edge was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Don’t expect big on-prem HPC hardware investments from biotech companies given COVID drivers.
What COVID Means for Biotech Compute Investments in 2021 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Computing has become more complex as the digital age has progressed. …
Hybrid Computing Sharpens Its Edge was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In the IT sector, there is a constant flow of little changes to hardware and software that culminate in progress. …
The Tectonic Shift To Virtual Distributed Routing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
No matter how established any market is, there is always the churning and burning of change happening and there is always an opportunity for new players to carve out a place for themselves in new niches. …
The Serendipitous AI System And Cloud Builder was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The rapid adoption by enterprises of hybrid cloud and multicloud environments along with the rise of the Internet of Things, a much more remote workforce and other trends that have contributed to the increasingly distributed nature of modern IT has put the vast amounts of data that is being generated in a precarious position. …
IBM Leverages Cloud To Push The Encryption Envelope was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The recent announcement by the CentOS project to discontinue mirroring Red Hat releases, which The Next Platform has already reported on, has hit some sectors hard. …
CentOS And HPC: It’s Okay, We Are Moving On was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Intel in October clarified its memory plans moving forward when it announced it is selling its NAND memory business to SK Hynix in a two-step acquisition that is worth $9 billion and will take until 2025 to be completed. …
Being Persistent With Persistent Memory was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
There are many different schools of thought when it comes to databases, which is one of the reasons that we launch our inaugural event focused solely on database technologies this year. …
The Once And Future Federated Database was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
IBM knows how to adapt to an ever-changing enterprise tech landscape. …
Big Blue Shines A Light On The Future Of Tape Storage was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
About 15 years ago, as Swami Sivasubramanian was making his way from grad school back into the working world, he saw that developers and builders at enterprises were being held back not by their skills or their ideas, but by their inability to access the technology needed to bring those ideas to the fore. …
Learning To Make The Machine Part Of AI Invisible And Easy was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
There is nothing quite like the open source community to demonstrate the principles of freedom, democracy, and meritocracy – and the difficulties of bringing those principles to bear and keeping them pure when money is involved. …
Nobody Owns Linux, But You Can Pay For It – Or Not was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Since a big chunk of the IBM HPC team moved over to Lenovo as part of the System x division being acquired by Lenovo back in late 2014, which coincided when we started The Next Platform, we have made a habit of talking to Scott Tease, executive director of high performance computing at Lenovo to take the pulse of the volume segment of the HPC space. …
Taking The Pulse Of The Core HPC Market was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Peter Ungaro, senior vice president and general manager of HPC and mission critical solutions at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and longtime CEO of supercomputer Cray before HPE bought the company for $1.3 billion in 2019, spoke with The Next Platform earlier this year about the dawning exascale era the world is about to step into. …
HPC Does A Cannonball Into HPE’s GreenLake was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.