Let’s leave aside all the questions about the long-term viability of AI ASICs and appliances and focus instead on the beauty of a good architecture. …
The Elegance (And Limitations Of) Precisely Engineered Accelerators was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
To Patricia Harris – like most people in the rapidly changing worlds of IT and business – data is central to what she does. …
Squeezing Every Drop Of Value Out Of Data was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
A wide-ranging program for you today with everything from neuromorphic hardware and software research; some impressive FPGA acceleration for Caffe from Samsung AI Research; why the datacenter industry is booming (the answers might surprise you); the state of Lustre and OpenSFS; and where some unique opportunities are in HPC on the pandemic modeling front. …
Next Platform TV for July 14, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
With all of us now learning to live, work, and learn from home, it is becoming apparent how critical video streaming is as a tool to support our new normal. …
Get The Picture With Video Acceleration In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As we’ve talked about in the past, the focus on data – how much is being generated, where it’s being created, the tools needed to take advantage of it, the shortage of skilled talent to manage it, and so on – is rapidly changing the way enterprises are operating both in the datacenter and in the cloud and dictating many of the product roadmaps being developed by tech vendors. …
An Architecture for Artificial Intelligence Storage was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
From Arm server chip market and technology momentum to the future of spin wave computing, as well as some insight about current situation and subsequent (too quick?) …
Next Platform TV for July 9, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Welcome to Next Platform TV for today, July 7, 2020.
We are featuring an in-depth interview with Dr. …
Next Platform TV for July 7, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Storage is perhaps one of the thorniest issues in computing, whether you are looking at an enterprise datacenter or an HPC environment. …
Bringing The Enterprise SAN Into The Cloud Era was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.
Huge dataset sizes and computationally intense demands of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) workloads are motivating some organizations to seek highly elastic HPC solutions with enormous memory volumes. …
Puffing Up Computational Fluid Dynamics On The Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Thanks for tuning into Next Platform TV for today, July 1. …
Next Platform TV for July 1, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Earlier this month, we were talking to the James Kulina, the new executive director of the OpenPower Foundation, which is the organization created by IBM and Google back in the summer of 2013 to create a community around the Power architecture. …
Big Blue Open Sources The Core Inside BlueGene/Q Supercomputers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The term “general purpose” in regards to compute is an evolving one. …
The New General And New Purpose In Computing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If the hyperscalers are a crystal ball in which we see the far-off future of compute, storage, and networking writ large and ahead of the mainstream, then the public cloud builders are a mirror in which we see the more immediate needs and desires of enterprises. …
The Battle For Enterprise Compute Begins In The Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Today we look at an evaluation of AMD versus Nvidia GPUs for HPC applications, we also consider infrastructure for AI in production drug discovery, and in a completely different direction, we talk to Danny Shapiro, head of automotive at Nvidia about the datacenter requirements for future autonomous vehicles. …
Next Platform TV for Monday, June 28 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Hardware accelerated databases are not new things. More than twenty years ago, Netezza was founded and created a hybrid hardware architecture that ran PostgreSQL on a big, wonking NUMA server running Linux and accelerated certain functions with adjunct accelerators that were themselves hybrid CPU-FPGA server blades that also stored the data. …
Accelerated Databases In The Fast Lane was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
On today’s show we talk to Dr. Jack Dongarra, co-founder of the Top 500 supercomputer list and creator of several companion benchmarks, including HPCG. …
Next Platform TV for Wednesday, June 24 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
There are two Amperes in datacenter compute right now, and they are both gunning for Xeons. …
Ampere Reveals “Quicksilver” Altra Lineup, 128-Core “Mystique” Kicker was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise in January created its Transformation Office with an eye toward accelerating its move to become a platform provider – complete with hardware, software, services and other components – with a reach from the datacenter out through the cloud and to the fast-growing edge computing environment. …
HPE Builds Out GreenLake Utility, Creates Ezmeral Software was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Bioinformatics research that targets infectious diseases is more important now than ever. …
Bioinformatics To CLIMB Higher With AI was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Today on Next Platform TV, we take a distinct look at the world of HPC with the release of the annual Top 500 list of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. …
Next Platform TV for June 22, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.