As the underdog in cloud computing, Google has to take a slightly different tack from industry pioneer and juggernaut Amazon Web Services, which simply believes that all applications should, in the fullness of time, move to the public cloud. …
Google Takes On Public Cloud Rivals With Private Kubernetes Service was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Despite some of the inherent complexities of using FPGAs for implementing deep neural networks, there is a strong efficiency case for using reprogrammable devices for both training and inference. …
Clearing the TensorFlow to FPGA Path was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
When it comes to building extreme scale computing platforms, there are plenty of system design options but in supercomputing, the only practical choice for an OS is Linux. …
Replacing Linux with a Database System was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Quantum systems will not replace traditional supercomputers anytime soon but for certain types of simulations, they will be far more efficient and scalable than classical machines, at least according to CEO of quantum computer maker D-Wave, Vern Brownell. …
D-Wave CEO on Future of Quantum Simulations was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Mellanox got its start as one of the several suppliers of ASICs for the low latency InfiniBand protocol that was originally conceived as a kind of universal fabric to connect all devices in the datacenter. …
Steady InfiniBand, Booming Ethernet Propel Mellanox Higher was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
This year at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) Dr. Keren Bergman from the Lightwave Research Lab at Columbia University detailed the road ahead for optical interconnects in supercomputing and what it means for exascale energy efficiency and beyond. …
Efficiency Gains of Optical Interconnects at Exascale was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Given the rollout of the “ZZ” and “Boston” variants of its Power9 systems, which are aimed at customers who are building clusters and at midrange enterprises that use a Power System server as their main back-end system, you might be expecting for the Power Systems line at IBM to have had a big bump in the second quarter of this year. …
Awaiting IBM’s Power Systems Growth Spurt was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
There is no way to predict which quantum system will garner system share in the next years, but most large chip, system, and software companies are hedging their bets and establishing a quantum research effort in the form of hardware, simulations, or software stacks. …
Microsoft Builds Quantum Strategy Around Q# was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
FPGA maker Xilinx has acquired Chinese deep learning chip startup DeePhi Tech for an undisclosed sum. …
FPGA Maker Snaps Up Deep Learning Chip Startup was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
It has been a year since Intel launched its “Skylake” Xeon SP processors, and even though the big cloud builders and hyperscalers had even earlier access to these chips, they are still only just now rolling out new hardware systems and related virtual machine instance types based on the Skylakes. …
AWS Chases HPC With Heftier Instances was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
No matter what language or techniques are being applied, there are enough similarities between data science approaches that some broad parallels can be drawn. …
Why an Active Ontology Matters for Data Science was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
The sign of a mature technology is not just how pervasive it is, but in how invisible and easy to use it is. …
When Does Kubernetes Become Invisible And Ubiquitous? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
If you really want to know what is going on in the HPC market, you have to be careful about using the Top 500 rankings of “supercomputers” as a yardstick. …
Teasing Out The Top 500 Truth Through Networking was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Containers have been getting a lot of attention in the enterprise over the past several years, thanks to them being an enabling technology for greater operational agility, especially in developing customer-facing applications and getting the code into production with greater speed. …
Microsoft’s Container Strategy Continues To Evolve was written by Daniel Robinson at .
The line between Intel’s high end desktop, midrange workstation, and low end servers has always been a blurry one, and changing the naming conventions on its products has not really changed the Intel strategy one bit. …
Intel Takes Entry Xeons Up To Coffee Lake was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
There are so many ironies in the hardware business that it is amazing that we aren’t covered in rust. …
Why Intel Must Respond To AMD’s Single Socket Threat was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
By its very nature, HPC isn’t exactly cheap to do. Even moderate sized systems ring in at many hundreds of thousands of dollars. …
The Practice Of Collaboration Between Industry And HPC Centers was written by James Cuff at .
For many enterprises these days, managing data has the feel of a three-ring circus. …
Object Storage Tiering In A Cloudy World was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
It is safe to say that VMware would have been perfectly happy if Docker containers had never been invented. …
A Tale Of Two – Well, Three Or Four – Kubernetes was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, big iron in datacenters started out with water cooling, which was a pain in the neck in terms of the system and facilities engineering. …
A Sea Change Coming For Water Cooling In Datacenters was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .