It wasn’t so long ago that only supercomputing centers had to resort to fancy cooling technology to keep their systems running smoothly and at peak performance. … “Dealing With Density In The Datacenter And Beyond”
Dealing With Density In The Datacenter And Beyond was written by Michael Feldman at .
As one of the dominant hyperscalers in the world, Microsoft is out there on the cutting edge, driving efficiencies on every front it can in server, storage, switching, software, and datacenter design. … “On The Hot Seat In The Hyperscale Datacenter”
On The Hot Seat In The Hyperscale Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
In the modern distributed computing world, which is getting ever more disaggregated and some might say discombobulated, as every day passes, the architecture of the network in the datacenter is arguably the most important factor in determining if applications will perform well or not. … “How To Benefit From Facebook’s New Network Fabric”
How To Benefit From Facebook’s New Network Fabric was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
When Facebook open sourced the hardware and datacenter designs of its very first homegrown datacenter in Prineville, Oregon nearly eight years ago, creating the Open Compute Project, it was an act of enlightened self-interest. …
Open Compute Takes Root Outside Of Hypercalers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
In a wide-ranging keynote address that ran nearly three hours at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang talked up the company’s successes and new products across its graphics, robotics, and AI and HPC lineups. …
Data Science Sparks The Gap Between HPC And Hyperscale was written by Michael Feldman at .
As expected, Intel will be the prime contractor for the first exascale supercomputer in the United States, which Argonne National Laboratory expects to be operational and capable of sustained exaflops performance by the end of 2021. …
Intel To Take On OpenPower For Exascale Dominance With Aurora was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
To understand how far natural language processing (NLP) has progressed in the past decade and how fast it is evolving now, we need to update Alan Turing’s thought experiment on how to test an AI for conversational intelligence to a 21st Century context and methodology. …
Modernizing The Turing Test For 21st Century AI was written by Paul Teich at .
When Intel starts shipping its “Cascade Lake” Xeons in volume soon, it will mark a turning point in the server space. …
Researchers Scrutinize Optane Memory Performance was written by Michael Feldman at .
This week Intel unveiled Compute Express Link (CXL), the chipmaker’s own cache coherent accelerator interconnect that it is grooming to become the industry standard. …
Intel Offers Up Yet Another Accelerator Interconnect Technology was written by Michael Feldman at .
The hyperscalers and cloud builders of the world build things that often look and feel like supercomputers if you squint your eyes a little, but if you look closely, you can often see some pretty big differences. …
Inside Facebook’s Future Machine Learning Platforms was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
If we are talking about infrastructure it might seem obvious to take a systems-level view. …
AI Infrastructure Needs Systems Level Thinkers was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
At the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, Professor Joe Oefelein, from the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech, is heading up a team of researchers working to solve the multifaceted grand challenge of simulating turbulent reactive flows in propulsion and power systems. …
Summit Simulations to Change How we Drive and Explore Space was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The edge is getting a lot of attention these days, given the fast-growing amount of data that is being generated by the proliferation of devices and systems located outside of the traditional core datacenter. …
The Evolving Infrastructure at the Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Among the emerging themes for 2019 in the datacenter, one of them is that NVM-Express is finding its place in the storage hierarchy. …
NVM-Express Storage Goes Mainstream Over Ethernet Fabrics was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The hyperscalers and cloud builders of the world put a third of their installed base into the trash compactor every year because it is much less costly for them to keep upgrading machinery than it is to operate older stuff that eats space and burns power and cooling less efficiently. …
Voracious Appetite For Compute Is The New Normal was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The related but distinct HPC and AI markets gave Nvidia a taste for building systems, and it looks like the company wants to control more of the hardware and systems software stack than it currently does given that it is willing to shell out $6.9 billion – just about all of the cash it has on hand – to acquire high-end networking equipment provider and long-time partner Mellanox Technologies. …
Connecting The Dots On Why Nvidia Is Buying Mellanox was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Optalysys, a startup based in the United Kingdom, has introduced an entry-level optical coprocessor, the first such system of its kind on the market. …
Startup Sheds Some Light On Optical Processing was written by Michael Feldman at .
IBM has announced that it has achieved a new high-water mark in “quantum volume,” a metric the company is using to assess the capability of its quantum computers. …
IBM Pumps Up The Volume On Its Quantum Computing Effort was written by Michael Feldman at .
As server racks become more thermally dense, the costs and logistics of conventional cooling becomes ever-more challenging. …
Lighting a Fire Under Liquid Immersion Cooling was written by Michael Feldman at .
When it comes to making swift pivots to keep pace with the newest architectural innovations, organizations like weather and climate prediction-focused NOAA have major constraints. …
NOAA Faces Winds of Architectural Change was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .