We have to admit that it is often a lot more fun watching an upstart carve out whole new slices of business, or create them out of what appears to be thin air, in the datacenter than it is to watch how it will respond to intense competitive pressures and somehow manage to keep growing despite that. …
Where Does Nvidia Go In The Datacenter From Here? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
At The Next AI Platform event in May, we brought together a few leading investors on the deep learning chip front to talk about how they consider architecture, software, competitiveness, and market potential from the various approaches for both training and inference. …
VCs Look Beyond Architecture for Next Chip Success Stories was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
When most people speak of exascale supercomputers, they tend to focus on the computational aspect of these systems. …
The Shape of Storage for the Exascale Era was written by Michael Feldman at .
As the era of exascale supercomputing approaches, Europe is making a concerted effort to become a first-class HPC power, on par with that of the United States, China, and Japan. …
Maintaining Europe’s Edge in Supercomputing Software was written by Michael Feldman at .
Cockroach Labs has created a clone of Google’s Spanner geographically distributed database, and it looks like adoption of the CockroachDB database is starting to ride up the blade of the proverbial hockey stick and is moving quickly towards the much steeper handle. …
CockroachDB Wants To Take A Bite Out Of Oracle was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
There is little question that storage and I/O are hot topics once again with the arrival of a host of new technologies that displaced the tried and true from decades past (disk, bulky parallel file systems, etc.). …
Existing Storage Infrastructure is the Bottleneck for AI was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Whether we want to term it HPC, AI, hyperscale, or something in between to apply to large-scale enterprise, there are fundamental changes afoot for big organizations with large clusters that are doing double (or quadruple) duty with production workloads and the new integration of machine learning. …
HPC or AI: Composability is Still King was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
It is no secret that the big three commercial Hadoop distributors have been running into headwinds in recent years as more workloads and data have made their way into the public cloud and that these Hadoop platform providers have spent a lot of money and time to expand their stacks beyond the basic open source Hadoop. …
Hadoop Pioneer MapR Faces An Uncertain Future was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Optical computing, a technology that traces its roots back to the 1930s, is enjoying something of a revival these days. …
Startup Looks To Light Up Machine Learning was written by Michael Feldman at .
It was a long time coming but AMD is finding its footing again in the high performance computing space. …
AMD Puts Epyc In The HPC Driver’s Seat was written by Michael Feldman at .
Earlier in May during The Next AI Platform event in San Jose, we conducted live, technical interviews with a broad range of experts in various areas of deep learning hardware. …
AI Chip Leads Debate Training, Inference Accelerator Trends was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
The quantum computing effort at Honeywell appears to be heating up. …
Honeywell One Step Closer To Universal Quantum Computer was written by Michael Feldman at .
The most interesting thing about Hewlett Packard Enterprise has nothing to do with its many products in compute, storage, and networking, or even its recent $1.3 billion deal to acquire supercomputer maker Cray. …
Selling Distributed Public Cloud, One Rack At A Time was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
At The Next AI Platform event on May 9 in San Jose, we brought together a wide range of people leading the charge throughout the AI infrastructure stack. …
I/O Bubbles to Top of AI Infrastructure Conversations was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Storage is no longer an afterthought when it comes to systems of any reasonable scale. …
In the Age of AI, Storage is No Longer an Afterthought was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Earlier this week we focused on the entry of FPGA maker, Achronix, and their strategy to tackle the high end of this market with a datacenter-focused, 7nm device expected to emerge later this year. …
Rerouting the Conventional Datacenter FPGA was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
When the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) is deployed in the next decade, along side it will be a supercomputer tasked to process the deluge of astronomical data that the instrument will collect from the skies. …
Designing the SKA Supercomputer Platform was written by Michael Feldman at .
The commercial realization of artificial intelligence has companies scrambling to develop the next big hardware technology breakthrough for this multi-billion dollar market. …
The Silicon Photonics Key to Building Better Neural Networks was written by Michael Feldman at .
When it comes to competition at the high end of the FPGA market, Xilinx and Altera (now part of Intel) are the two monolithic players, capturing the lions share of use cases. …
FPGA Upstart Takes Careful Aim at High-End Market was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
We have published a number of stories lately that talk about the innovative uses of Intel’s 3D XPoint Optane persistent memory modules, which are a key component of the company’s “Cascade Lake” Xeon SP systems and which are also becoming a foundational technology in clustered storage based on NVM-Express over Fabrics interconnects from a number of storage upstarts. …
Those Without Persistent Memory Are Fated To Repeat It was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .