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 .
It has been a long time since the Japan Meteorological Agency has deployed the kind of supercomputing oomph for weather forecasting that the island nation would seem to need to improve its forecasts. But JMA, like its peers in the United States, Europe, and India, is investing heavily in new supercomputers to get caught up, and specifically, has just done a deal with Cray to get a pair of XC50 systems that will have 18.2 petaflops of aggregate performance.
This is a lot more compute capacity than JMA has had available to do generic weather forecasting as well as do …
Weather Forecasting Gets A Big Lift In Japan was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
“Death and taxes” is a phrase that is usually attributed to Benjamin Franklin from a quote in a 1789 letter: “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Public cloud computing providers didn’t exist back in the days of Franklin, but if they did, they would have no doubt made the list. Here’s why. Public clouds for large data analysis, just like death and taxes, are clearly inevitable because of two things. One simple and now rather worn out cliché. That would be scale and the slightly more subtle data.
Nation states are racing …
The Inevitability Of Death, Taxes, And Clouds was written by James Cuff at The Next Platform.
Success can be its own kind of punishment in this world.
Since the dawn of modern computing 130 years ago with tabulating machines derived from looms, there have always been issues of scale when it comes to compute and storage. While all modern businesses worry about the IT infrastructure and how dependent they are on it, there are special classes of systems that are at organizations that have intense computing and storage demands, and usually also severe networking requirements, and they of necessity push the boundaries of what can be done simply because things need to be done.
They have …
It’s Called Distributed Computing, Even When It Shouldn’t Be was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.