The rise of public clouds, the Internet of Things, greater mobility, and the more devices connecting to corporate networks is creating highly distributed environments for enterprises where applications can come from a variety of places, workloads can run on-premises or somewhere in multiple public clouds and computing resources can be located anywhere from the datacenter through branch offices and the network edge and out in the cloud. …
Cisco Twists Open Its Intent Networking was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Linux has gradually grown in importance along with the Internet and now the hyperscalers that define the next generation of experience on that global network. …
Canonical Cuts Its Own Path To Put Linux In The Cloud was written by Daniel Robinson at .
There is no shortage of data in the life sciences. Every talk about bioinformatics and genomics has to include the now ubiquitous hockey stick growth graph of digital DNA. …
What Data Deluge In Life Sciences Means For Exascale And Clouds was written by James Cuff at .
For the past several years, Teuto.net, a small public and private cloud provider in Germany, has used the open source Ceph software as the backbone of its storage infrastructure. …
Cloud Provider Embraces NVMesh To Lower Storage Latencies was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center is one of the flagship HPC facilities in Europe and it arguably has the most elegant and spiritual of datacenters in the world, located inside of Torre Girona Chapel. …
BSC Fires Up Power9-V100 Hybrid Compute On MareNostrum 4 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
When it comes to deep learning chip startups, hype moves fast but crossing the finish line to real production silicon takes an incredibly long time. …
MIPS in Hand, AI Chip Startup Wave Computing Delivers First Silicon was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
As history reveals, building a thriving systems business in HPC is no simple task. …
Penguin Compute Gets Smart About Capital Needs In HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
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 .