Some patterns are very hard to break. From the very early days of the systems business as we know it, which started six decades ago, the fourth quarter of the calendar year has been the money maker for companies like IBM, and the second quarter has been a relatively big one for those who could not get their budgets together before the end of the prior year. …
Big Blue Bucks The Datacenter Server Recession was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The big oil and gas companies of the world were among the earliest and most enthusiastic users of advanced machinery to do HPC simulation and modeling. …
Energy Giant Eni Boosts Its HPC Oomph By An Order Of Magnitude was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED: DevOps has matured to the point in its evolution where its practitioners are often expected to play a full part in helping to make IT operations more agile. …
The Age Of Edge Ops Is Upon Us was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There is no question that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co is one of the best bellwethers of the IT industry. …
TSMC Is A Bellwether For IT, But It Is Not The Weather Of All IT was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The datacenter industry today looks very different than it did a decade ago. …
Expect Datacenters To Get Denser, Hotter, And Smarter was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED: MemCon 2024 is billed as a one stop shop for emerging technologies in the memory and storage domain, and a hub for efficient data movement and management. …
How To Get Over The Memory Wall was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
Change may be inevitable, but it is also a pain in the neck. …
IT Spending In 2024 Cools Thanks To “Change Fatigue” was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Here is how you know that the way chiplets are linked together to create what might have otherwise been a monolithic device is now more important than the way that the chiplets themselves are designed. …
Chip Packaging Trumps EDA: Why Synopsys Is Paying $35 Billion For Ansys was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
COMMISSIONED: Edge security is a growing headache. The attack surface is expanding as more operational functions migrate out of centralized locations and into distributed sites and devices. …
Locking Down The Edge was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The central tenets of cloud computing, which really ought to be called utility computing, is that you only pay for what you use and that you can turn compute, storage, and networking off when you are not actually using, thus freeing up capacity for those who need it. …
No More Roach Motels For Data In The Clouds was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The melding of low and high precision mathematics to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery has been a topic of discussion for some time now. …
Combining AI With HPC To Find Better Battery Designs was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.
We have five decades of very fine-grained analysis of CPU compute engines in the datacenter, and changes come at a steady but glacial pace when it comes to CPU serving. …
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The Datacenter GPU Gravy Train That No One Will Derail was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Commissioned: After two years of collective confinement, the world’s population rushed outdoors with a passion. …
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Urban mobility transformation enhances the “Fast” but removes the “Furious” was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
For traditional HPC workloads, AMD’s MI250X is still a powerhouse when it comes to double precision floating point grunt. …
The post Sometimes The Best AI Accelerator Is The 37,888 GPUs You Already Have first appeared on The Next Platform.
Sometimes The Best AI Accelerator Is The 37,888 GPUs You Already Have was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED FEATURE: The next generation internet is all about experience. Hyperscalers like Google, Azure and Facebook epitomize the importance of both technological and customer experience. …
The post Why hyperscale networks have been decades in the making first appeared on The Next Platform.
Why hyperscale networks have been decades in the making was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
It looks like Hewlett Packard Enterprise might be having a datacenter networking revival. …
The post Why Would HPE Buy Juniper Networks? first appeared on The Next Platform.
Why Would HPE Buy Juniper Networks? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Investment in supercomputing and related HPC technologies is not just a sign of how much we are willing to bet on the future with someone else’s money, but how much we believe in it ourselves, and more importantly, how much we believe in the core idea that we can predict and therefore shape the future of the world. …
The post The Future We Simulate Is The One We Create first appeared on The Next Platform.
The Future We Simulate Is The One We Create was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Without question, the biggest bottleneck in artificial intelligence and for a lot of HPC workloads today is bandwidth. …
The post How Lightmatter Breaks Bandwidth Bottlenecks With Silicon Photonics first appeared on The Next Platform.
How Lightmatter Breaks Bandwidth Bottlenecks With Silicon Photonics was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.
The end of Moore’s Law – the real Moore’s Law where transistors get cheaper and faster with every process shrink – is making chip makers crazy. …
The post With “Big Chip,” China Lays Out Aspirations For Waferscale first appeared on The Next Platform.
With “Big Chip,” China Lays Out Aspirations For Waferscale was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
You might be thinking that with all of the investment in AI systems these days that the boom in InfiniBand interconnect sales would be eating into sales of high-end Ethernet interconnects in the datacenter. …
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Ethernet Switching Bucks The Server Recession Trend was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.