The fleet of servers in the enterprise datacenters of the world – distinct from hyperscalers, cloud builders, and HPC centers – are getting a bit long in the tooth. …
Virtualization Is The Real Opportunity For Epyc was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
As one of the first hyperscalers in the world, Yahoo, part of the Oath conglomerate that also includes AOL and that is owned by telecom giant Verizon, knows a thing or two about running applications at extreme scale. …
How OpenStack Lassoes Yahoo’s 4 Million Server Cores was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
While deep learning models might not be able to simulate large-scale physical phenomena in the same way purpose-built supercomputers and their application stacks do, there is more research emerging that shows how traditional HPC simulations can be augmented, if not replaced in some parts, by neural networks. …
Deep Learning Infiltrating HPC Physics Domains was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
It is hard to say for sure, but a very substantial part of the hard work in buying supercomputers and creating simulations and models that tell us about the real world around us gets done in thousands of academic research institutions worldwide. …
Forging A Hybrid CPU-FPGA Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Intel is gearing up the FPGA user base it inherited from Altera for the release of Stratix 10 hardware and companion application acceleration stack. …
Intel Kicks FPGA Performance Up a Notch With Stratix 10 PAC was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
For any public cloud to succeed, it has to offer best of breed technologies reasonably close to the cutting edge and supporting the wide variety of compute that the enterprises of the world would otherwise acquire and run on premises. …
Microsoft Focuses Azure More Tightly On HPC And AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The refrigerators are on order and the lists of scientific applications are formed for another new quantum architecture to enter the quantum hardware space. …
Berkeley Lab Building Own Open Architecture Quantum Chips was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
If it isn’t obvious, we like hardware here at The Next Platform. …
The Shape Of Supermicro Machine Learning Iron To Come was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
It is no wonder that the quantum computing investments in the U.S., China, and elsewhere are ramping. …
Quantum Computers are the Future Nukes of the IT World was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Perhaps the most important decision that any company will ever make is how they intend to structure and store the information they will preserve to encapsulate the goods and services they provide to their customers. …
The Graph Database Poised To Pounce On The Mainstream was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
By definition, HPC is always at the cutting edge of computing, driving innovations in processor, system, and software design that eventually find their way into more mainstream computing systems. …
HPC And AI Can’t Compute Without Fast, Scalable Storage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
This week we have heard much about the inference side of the deep learning workload, with a range of startups emerging at the AI Hardware Summit. …
Google Rounds Out Insight into TPU Architecture and Inference was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
When this is all done, Intel might have wished it had kept Renee James as president and chief executive officer, because Ampere, an Arm server chip startup that James has been running since this spring, wants a big piece of the Xeon datacenter business and it has the financial backing to start a price war that others can win and only Intel can lose. …
Arm Upstart Ampere Starts Chipping Away At Intel Xeons was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
On the hardware side, the next frontier for deep learning innovation will be in getting the performance, efficiency, and accuracy needed for inference at scale. …
Self-Creating Neural Networks That Explain Themselves was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
If there is one rule of computing, is that it gets increasingly more expensive and more difficult to scale up performance within a single device or a single server node. …
The Microserver, Redux And Reconsidered was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The revelations by Google’s Project Zero team earlier this year of the Spectre and Meltdown speculative execution vulnerabilities in most of processors that have powered servers and PCs for the past couple of decades shook the industry as Intel and other chip makers scrambled to mitigate the risk of the threats in the short term and then implement plans to incorporate the mitigation techniques into future versions of the silicon. …
Trading Off Security And Performance Thanks To Spectre And Meltdown was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Fujitsu has given us a peek at the future A64FX Arm server processor that it has forged for the future “Post-K” supercomputer that is being built by the Japanese government for the RIKEN laboratory, arguably the hotbed of HPC in the Land of the Rising Sun. …
Slicing Into The Post-K Supercomputer’s Tofu D Interconnect was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Gentlemen (and women), start your inference engines.
One of the world’s largest buyers of systems is entering evaluation mode for deep learning accelerators to speed services based on trained models. …
Facebook Sounds Opening Bell for AI Inference Hardware Makers was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
When it comes to machine learning, a lot of the attention in the past six years has focused on the training of neural networks and how the GPU accelerator radically improved the accuracy of networks, thanks to its large memory bandwidth and parallel compute capacity relative to CPUs. …
Nvidia Takes On The Inference Hordes With Turing GPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
At the dawn of the mainframe era, Thomas Watson is said to have remarked that perhaps only five such systems would ever be sold in the world and that perhaps, just one machine would be needed to solve the most intractable problems. …
The Cloud is Where Quantum Competition Gets Real was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .