Many programs have a tough time spanning across high levels of concurrency, but if they are cleverly coded, databases can make great use of massively parallel compute based in hardware to radically speed up the time it takes to run complex queries against large datasets. …
In A Parallel Universe, Data Warehouses Run On GPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
European supercomputing centers are known for deploying innovative architectures and working on cutting-edge applications, but the sheer number of these systems lags rather far behind the U.S. …
Will a Billion Dollars Buy Europe Exascale Dominance? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Technologies often start out in one place and then find themselves in another. …
Inferring The Future Of The FPGA, And Then Making It was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
It is certainly true that no technology company can grow if they are not able to do business in China. …
Open Compute A Foot In the Datacenter Door For Inspur was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
A few years ago the market was rife with deep learning chip startups aiming at AI training. …
Boosting the Clock for High Performance FPGA Inference was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
We did not plan it, but today has become make-your-eyes-bleed-with-chip architecture-patent-applications day. …
A Rare Peek into IBM’s True North Neuromorphic Chip was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
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 .