As the hyperscalers and cloud builders go, so goes the enterprise. …
A Flare For SmartNICs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
At this point in the history of information technology, there is no way to introduce a new processor that does not appeal to the hyperscalers and cloud builders. …
Ampere Aims For The Clouds With Altra Arm Server Chip was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Supply Chain Impacts, HPC Investments, Event Disruptions
It is difficult to ignore the mounting impacts of supply chain disruption worldwide with the coronavirus crisis. …
Next Platform Radio: 3/2/20 Edition was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The best technology companies have always taken something that was complex and done a whole lot of engineering or in many cases re-engineering of it to make it usable and consumable – with the right pricing – so it can go mainstream. …
Sticking With Both The Pure And The Storage Strategy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There is a seismic shift that is about to reshape enterprise IT. …
The Birth Of The Distributed Cloud was written by Ankur Singla at The Next Platform.
Enterprises are said to be awash in data, and one of the problems posed by all this data is not just storing it, but processing it. …
Computational Storage Winds Its Way Towards The Mainstream was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.
In the past year or so, watching supercomputer maker Cray, which is now part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, has been a bit like playing a country and western song backwards on the record player. …
Weathering Heights: Of Resolutions And Ensembles was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
At The Next FPGA Platform event in January there were several conversations about what roles reconfigurable hardware will play in the future of deep learning. …
FPGA Inroads to Convolutional Neural Networks was written by Josh Gibson at The Next Platform.
Whatever is going on with its competitive positioning against revitalized X86 server chip rival AMD, Intel clearly felt that it could not wait for the launch of its 14 nanometer “Cooper Lake” and 10 nanometer “Ice Lake” Xeon SP processors to address it. …
Intel Reacts To The Competitive Heat On Its Xeons was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If it wasn’t bad enough that Moore’s Law improvements in the density and cost of transistors is slowing. …
Google Teaches AI To Play The Game Of Chip Design was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We are just 18 days away from The Next AI Platform event on March 10, 2020 at The Glasshouse in San Jose. …
Full Agenda for The Next AI Platform: 2020 Edition was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The growing number of and installations for all-flash storage arrays is hard to ignore. …
Sticking With Disks In An Increasingly All-Flash World was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
At The Next FPGA Platform event in San Jose, California on January 22, Jose Alvarez, Intel PSG CTO, Jose Alvarez outlined the three levels of heterogeneous integration. …
The Three Levels of Heterogeneous Integration was written by Josh Gibson at The Next Platform.
With the ramping of volumes, the maturing of the manufacturing process, and the widening number of use cases in the field, there is always an opportunity for the lineup of every type and generation of compute engine to get some tweaks here and there. …
AMD Tweaks Rome Epyc Server Chip Lineup was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Enterprise IT continues to cast its attentions – and sometimes its aspersions – out to the edge, that place outside of traditional datacenters and beyond that cloud where data is increasingly being generated and processed. …
The Continuum From Edges To Datacenters was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
It is not difficult to oversimplify, even with something as complex and diverse as quantum computing, but these systems go far beyond mere qubits in deep freeze. …
Quantum Control: More Than Meets the Eye was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
If you want inspiration for a hyperscale, resilient distributed block storage service, apparently a jellyfish is a good place to start looking for architectural features. …
The Jellyfish-Inspired Database Under AWS Block Storage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is rare to find a story here at The Next Platform that does not focus on systems for large-scale use cases. …
Where Portable AI Training Makes Sense was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
It is not inconceivable, but probably also not very likely, that the datacenter business at GPU juggernaut Nvidia could at some point in the next one, two, or three years equal that of the core and foundational gaming sector. …
The Datacenter Has An Appetite For GPU Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When talking about high-end HPC systems in the world, much of the attention often is paid to the massive supercomputers that are being developed by the likes of system makers Cray (now part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the main contractor on two exascale systems), Fujitsu, Atos, IBM, and others along with component makers Intel (which is a primary contractor on one exascale system), AMD, and Nvidia. …
The Softer Side Of Exascale was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.