The cloud has been helping lower the cost and improve the quality of technology infrastructures and business practices for more than a decade, but implementation of cloud technologies can still pose challenges. …
Supermicro, Intel Tackle Next Wave of Cloud Demand was written by Daniel Robinson at .
The year ahead for high performance computing promises some interesting twists and turns. …
CPU Wars and Exascale Clarity: HPC in 2019 was written by Michael Feldman at .
We spent some time at the end of 2018 getting a handle on how parallel file systems in HPC need to evolve to meet the shifting demands in workloads driven by machine learning. …
Re-Architecting Parallel File Systems in the Post-Disk Era was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Sharing data via remote direct memory access (RDMA) has typically been a local affair, restricted to a single server or tightly bound clusters of servers. …
Startup Sees Potential for Long-Distance RDMA on Horizon was written by Michael Feldman at .
We predict new enterprise application development will pass a tipping point in 2019 and shift away from legacy virtual machines (VMs) and strongly toward containers and Kubernetes container orchestration. …
Containers Killed The Virtual Machine Star was written by Paul Teich at .
To effectively make use of the level of concurrency in forthcoming exascale systems – hundreds of thousands of compute elements with millions of threads – requires some new thinking, both by programmers and in development tools. …
Two Thirds of The Way Home With Exascale Programming was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
A few months ago, we took an in-depth look at Intel’s quantum hardware strategy—from qubits to device manufacturability and commercial viability. …
Intel’s Quantum Efforts Tied to Next-Gen Materials Applications was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Arm chip designers who make processors for mobile devices, such as Apple, Samsung, and Qualcomm, that do not have pre-existing server businesses have been skittish about entering the server fray with heftier versions of their Arm chips for datacenter compute. …
Huawei Jumps Into The Arm Server Chip Fray was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
IBM has come up with its newest and most advanced quantum computer to date, which the company claims is “the world’s first integrated universal approximate quantum computing system designed for scientific and commercial use.” The system, known as IBM Q System One, was unveiled at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) taking place in Las Vegas, Nevada this week. …
IBM Refines Hardware for Commercial Quantum Computing was written by Michael Feldman at .
As the list of the most powerful supercomputers on the planet reveal, GPU accelerated high performance computing is alive in well across many technical and scientific domains. …
GPUs Gather Force in Large-Scale Weather Forecasting was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
After 12 years of working in the high performance computing sector as both an industry analyst and journalist, I’m delighted to join The Next Platform as a senior editor. …
HPC Industry Expert Michael Feldman Joins The Next Platform was written by Michael Feldman at .
When Globalfoundries decided to stop its development and rollout of both immersion lithography and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography at the 7 nanometer process node back in August, it looked as if IBM, second only to AMD as a server chip customer for its most advanced fab in Malta, New York, would be left in a lurch with its future Power processors. …
IBM Bets On Samsung Fabs For Power10 Chips was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
It would not have been an Architecture Day, as it was earlier this week at the former estate of Intel co-founder Robert Noyce, if the chip giant did not unfold a few pages in the roadmaps for its future CPUs and GPUs. …
Intel Unfolds Roadmaps For Future CPUs And GPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Hyperconverged infrastructure has been with us for a while now, and it looks like the technology is still a growing market, if analyst figures can be believed. …
Red Hat Takes On VMware, Nutanix For Hyperconverged Storage was written by Daniel Robinson at .
Every important benchmark needs to start somewhere.
The first round of MLperf results are in and while they might not deliver on what we would have expected in terms of processor diversity and a complete view into scalability and performance, they do shed light on some developments that go beyond sheer hardware when it comes to deep learning training. …
Reading Between the MLPerf Lines was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
It took a very, very long time, but if current conditions persist, we could see a server market that rakes in more than $100 billion next year. …
The Vital Engines Of Commerce was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Innovation requires motivation, and there is nothing quite like a competitor trying to each your lunch to wake you up every morning to the reality of the situation. …
Intel Bets Heavily On Chip Stacking For The Future Of Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The list of technologies that has been created because of the limitations of traditional, enterprise-grade relational databases is quite long, and yet these tried and true technologies persist at the heart of the modern enterprise. …
Talking Databases With Hadoop Creator Doug Cutting was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The history of digital computing is to provide increasing levels of abstraction to get programmers further and further away from directly manipulating the ones and zeros. …
Red Hat, Google, IBM, And SAP Go Knative For Serverless was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
The husband and wife team of Abdurrahman and Tülay Ateşin are experimental scientists who unexpectedly became involved with supercomputers when they moved to Texas in 2013. …
Exploring The Frontiers of Chemistry With HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .