We have talked at length about the complexity of software and systems in HPC, and many in the community agree that HPC and AI is hard work. …
Cloud HPC? There’s An App For That was written by James Cuff at .
If Andy Bechtolsheim, the chief technology officer at datacenter switching upstart Arista Networks, wanted to design ASICs to try to take a bigger piece of the switch pie – or more precisely, thought that this was a good idea at all – rest assured, Arista would be spending money engineering its own chips and fighting for capacity at the four remaining foundries that have advanced processes. …
Arista Runs Barefoot With Tofino Programmable Switch Chips was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
This year at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC18) our roaming camera crew was lucky enough to catch Dolly Wu, Inspur’s VP & GM of their Datacenter/Cloud division. …
A Closer Look: Inspur at the GPU Technology Conference was written by Dan Olds at .
The cost of servers keeps going up and up, thanks in large part to memory, flash, and GPU prices rising as too much demand chases too little supply and also due in part to the rising cost of processors. …
The Old Switcheroo was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The challenge with many of the complex modern technologies that are coming into datacenters is making them easy and cheap enough for enterprises to use at a their own scale, which is much more limited than that of hyperscalers and cloud builders, and employing their own skillsets, which are also more limited. …
Driving AI At Higher Speed Into The Enterprise was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
With Intel having significant difficulties in ramping up its 10 nanometer manufacturing processes and not really talking much about its plans for 7 nanometers, there has never been a better time for its few remaining rivals in chip manufacturing to give their respective CPU and GPU customers and edge to carve out some market share in the datacenter and on the desktop, which helps cover the cost of being in the datacenter because it helps ramp advanced processes. …
AMD Coils For 7 Nanometer Leap Over Intel And Nvidia was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
It is probably a myth that Bill Gates said “640 KB ought to be enough,” and whether or not he said it the truth is that it has never been enough. …
Thanks For The Memories was written by James Cuff at .
Like any emerging technology, artificial intelligence and various components like machine learning and deep learning are getting a lot of hype, with a continuous flow of analyst reports and news stories detailing how they all will change how business is done, research is conducted and operations are run. …
Cray Spreads The AI Word To The Masses was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
There are several competing processor efforts targeting deep learning training and inference but even for these specialized devices, the old performance ghosts found in other areas haunt machine learning as well. …
The Neuromorphic Memory Landscape for Deep Learning was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Three months ago, The Next Platform promised a three part conversation about practical computational balance with the final part focusing on software. …
Practical Computational Balance: The Challenges Of Software was written by James Cuff at .
One cloud was never going to be enough, no matter how much Amazon Web Services wants it to be otherwise. …
A Private Rackspace Still Embodies The Public Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Believe it or not, Cisco Systems has a bunch of customers for its UCS blade and rack servers that are in the gaming industry, which has its share of near-hyperscale players who have widely geographically distributed clusters spread around the globe so players can get very low latency access over the Internet to games running on that infrastructure. …
Cisco Gets Modular With Servers In Epyc Fashion was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
On the face of it, if you just look at the top level numbers, the server market is booming like we have not seen since the recovery in the wake of the Great Recession for a few quarters here and there between late 2009 and early 2011. …
The Server Boom Town Is Built On High Component Prices was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Nvidia got a little taste of hardware, and the company’s top brass have decided that they like having a lot of iron in their financial diet. …
Nvidia Takes More Control Of Its GPU Compute Platform was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
We recently considered how computing was often being called distributed even when it shouldn’t be, or being called something else when it really isn’t. …
All Things Decentralized was written by James Cuff at .
Hewlett Packard built up its conglomerate in the 2000s in good faith, trying to be a larger and more profitable supplier of IT products and services. …
We Fight, Get Beat, Rise, And Fight Again was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Last week at the Fujitsu Forum in Tokyo, Lisa Spelman, who is general manager of Xeon products and Data Center Marketing at Intel, did a soft announcement of the hybrid Xeon CPU-Arria 10 FPGA hybrid chip that the company has been talking about for years and that is now available to selected customers. …
A Peek Inside That Intel Xeon-FPGA Hybrid Chip was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson said that a week is a long time in politics. …
Making Sense Of Sensu was written by James Cuff at .
In the United Kingdom, there is a topical BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show called I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue. …
Intel AI VP Gadi Singer On One Song To The Tune Of Another was written by James Cuff at .
Any new and powerful technology always cuts both ways.
The rapid rise of the machine learning flavor of artificial intelligence is due to the fact that, unlike prior approaches, it actually works and therefore can be embraced by a wide swath of businesses, research and educational institutions, and technology companies. …
Making AI Users Accountable For Their Algorithms was written by Jeffrey Burt at .