Here at The Next Platform we are still casting a wary eye on how quantum computing will fit into the post-Moore landscape, especially in large-scale research and enterprise contexts. …
The post It’s Been a Noteworthy Week for Practical Quantum Computing first appeared on The Next Platform.
It’s Been a Noteworthy Week for Practical Quantum Computing was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.
Sometimes, especially with Intel in the past several years, the fact that the CPU roadmap doesn’t change is the news. …
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Intel Xeon Roadmap On Track, 288 Core “Sierra Forest” Coming Soon was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Heterogeneous computing is clearly here to stay but now’s the time to get down to brass tacks and start addressing standards, portability, and other elements common to maturing technologies. …
The post The New UXL Foundation’s Has a Bold Blueprint for Open Acceleration first appeared on The Next Platform.
The New UXL Foundation’s Has a Bold Blueprint for Open Acceleration was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.
Different workloads need different mixes of price, performance, thermals, and longevity in the field out there on the edge and in the datacenter, and that is why server CPU makers for years have had a mix of processors that deliver on these vectors that are different from each other. …
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AMD Finishes Out The Zen4 Server CPUs With Edgy “Siena” was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Association for Computing Machinery has just put out the finalists for the Gordon Bell Prize award that will be given out at the SC23 supercomputing conference in Denver, and as you might expect, some of the biggest iron assembled in the world are driving the advanced applications that have their eyes on the prize. …
The post China’s 1.5 Exaflops Supercomputer Chases Gordon Bell Prize – Again first appeared on The Next Platform.
China’s 1.5 Exaflops Supercomputer Chases Gordon Bell Prize – Again was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For the past decade or so, we have been convinced by quite a large number of IT suppliers that security functions, network and storage virtualization functions, and even the server virtualization hypervisor for carving up compute itself should be offloaded from servers to intermediaries somewhat illogically called data processing units, or DPUs. …
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Enfabrica Nabs $125 Million To Ramp Networking Godbox was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There are a lot of things going on in the datacenter and campus interconnect markets, but one of the weirder things we observe from the most recent market data coming out of IDC about the Ethernet portion of this market is that it is like a country music record being played backwards. …
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Supply Chain Easing Creates Ethernet Switching Boom was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We are still plowing through the many, many presentions from the Hot Interconnects, Hot Chips, Google Cloud Next, and Meta Networking @ Scale conferences that all happened recently and at essentially the same time. …
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Other Than Nvidia, Who Will Use Arm’s Neoverse V2 Core? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The history of computing teaches us that software always and necessarily lags hardware, and unfortunately that lag can stretch for many years when it comes to wringing the best performance out of iron by tweaking algorithms. …
The post Optimizing AI Inference Is As Vital As Building AI Training Beasts first appeared on The Next Platform.
Optimizing AI Inference Is As Vital As Building AI Training Beasts was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When Jim Keller talks about compute engines, you listen. And when Keller name drops a programming language and AI runtime environment, as he did in a recent interview with us, you do a little research and you also keep an eye out for developments. …
The post Is Mojo The Fortran For AI Programming, Or More? first appeared on The Next Platform.
Is Mojo The Fortran For AI Programming, Or More? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There is no question in our minds here at The Next Platform that quantum computing, in some fashion, will be part of the workflow for solving some of the peskiest computational problems the world can think of. …
The post Just How Big – Or Small – Is The Quantum Computing Racket? first appeared on The Next Platform.
Just How Big – Or Small – Is The Quantum Computing Racket? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is hard to make a living in the open source software business, although it is possible, through the contributions of many, to make great software. …
The post HashiCorp Retools Licenses And Software To Grow Its Business first appeared on The Next Platform.
HashiCorp Retools Licenses And Software To Grow Its Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you look back at it now, especially with the advent of massively parallel computing on GPUs, maybe the techies at Tera Computing and then Cray had the right idea with their “ThreadStorm” massively threaded processors and high bandwidth interconnects. …
The post What Would You Do With A 16.8 Million Core Graph Processing Beast? first appeared on The Next Platform.
What Would You Do With A 16.8 Million Core Graph Processing Beast? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In a world where Nvidia is allocating proportional shares of its GPU hotcakes to all of the OEMs and ODMs, companies like Dell, Hewlett Packard, Lenovo, and Supermicro get their shares and then they turn around and try to sell systems using them at the highest possible price. …
The post Dell Making The Most Of Its GPU Allocations, Like Everyone Else first appeared on The Next Platform.
Dell Making The Most Of Its GPU Allocations, Like Everyone Else was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It takes too long to get a new compute engine in the field, and everybody complains about it. …
The post Arm Gets Closer To Creating Full-Blown Server CPU Designs first appeared on The Next Platform.
Arm Gets Closer To Creating Full-Blown Server CPU Designs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Customers of Hewlett Packard Enterprise have one foot on the gas and one foot on the brakes at the same time that the company is transitioning from selling gear outright to customers to selling them subscriptions that spread the cost – and therefore HPE’s recognized revenues – out over time. …
The post The Edge Propels HPE While Datacenter Taps The Brakes first appeared on The Next Platform.
The Edge Propels HPE While Datacenter Taps The Brakes was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For those of us who like hardware and were hoping for a big reveal about the TPUv5e AI processor and surrounding system, interconnect, and software stack at the Hot Chips 2023 conference this week, the opening keynote by Jeff Dean and Amin Vahdat, the two most important techies at Google, was a bit of a disappointment. …
The post The Next 100X For AI Hardware Performance Will Be Harder first appeared on The Next Platform.
The Next 100X For AI Hardware Performance Will Be Harder was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Our choice of words in founding this publication nearly a decade ago were no accident. …
The post Everybody Tries To Leverage VMware To Their Advantage first appeared on The Next Platform.
Everybody Tries To Leverage VMware To Their Advantage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As we are fond of pointing out, when it comes to high performance, low latency InfiniBand-style networks, Nvidia is not the only choice in town and has not been since the advent of InfiniBand interconnects back in the late 1990s. …
The post Cornelis Unveils Ambitious Omni-Path Interconnect Roadmap first appeared on The Next Platform.
Cornelis Unveils Ambitious Omni-Path Interconnect Roadmap was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Unless you were born sometime during World War II, you have never seen anything like this before from a computing system manufacturer. …
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Nvidia: There’s A New Kid In Datacenter Town was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.