When it comes to chips, there is a big difference between a kicker and a fork. …
Fujitsu To Fork Arm Server Chip Line To Chase Clouds was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We talk about scale a lot here at The Next Platform, but there are many different aspects to this beyond lashing a bunch of nodes together and counting aggregate peak flops. …
DOE Wants A Hub And Spoke System Of HPC Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The years-long run-up to the first exascale supercomputers was really a story about the ongoing competition between the United States and China. …
Who’s Going To Build The UK’s Homegrown Exascale Supercomputer? was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Sponsored Feature: High performance computing continually sharpens the cutting edge of technology. …
Queuing For Time On A Supercomputer Shouldn’t Be An Engineering Problem was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
With each passing year, the phrase “The network is the computer,” coined in 1984 by John Gage, director of research and co-founder of Sun Microsystems, becomes more and more true. …
A Bumper Crop Of Ethernet Switches Harvested In Q4 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
About half as much. This is the pattern we have been seeing as many growing tech companies close out their 2022 or fiscal 2023 years and look ahead to their 2023 or fiscal 2024 years. …
Hashi Stack To Break $1 Billion, With Profits, In Two Years was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
ADVERTORIAL: The increasing need for more accurate weather modelling rears its head on an almost daily basis, as the changing global climate proves to be one of humanity’s greatest challenges. …
Faster and more accurate weather forecasting with HPC in the cloud was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
There is something weird about storage companies that were started around the same time as the Great Recession. …
The Tough Climb To Profitability For MongoDB was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We know, as you do, that artificial intelligence is driving a lot of spending at IT organizations and is probably the fundamental driver of spending by the hyperscalers and cloud builders that have, thus far, benefitted most from the machine learning revolution. …
Software Eats The World, And AI Eats Software was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Marvell has had a large and profitable I/O and networking silicon business for a long time, but with the acquisitions of Inphi in October 2020 and of Innovium in August 2021, the company is building a credible networking stack that can take on Broadcom, Cisco Systems, and Nvidia for the $1.3 billion or so in switch chips sold into the datacenter each year, which is growing at about 15 percent a year to more than $2 billion by 2026. …
Setting The Stage For 1.6T Ethernet, And Driving 800G Now was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
One of the reasons why Intel can even think about entering the GPU compute space is that the IT market, and indeed just about any market we can think of, likes to have at least three competitors. …
Intel Pushes Out Hybrid CPU-GPU Compute Beyond 2025 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There’s no resting on your laurels in the HPC world, no time to sit back and bask in a hard-won accomplishment that was years in the making. …
Getting To Zettascale Without Needing Multiple Nuclear Power Plants was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The central banks of the world, led by the European Central Bank and the US Federal Reserve, want to curb inflation and they are willing to cause a small recession or at least get very close to one to shock us all into controlling the acquisitive habits we developed during the lockdowns of the early years of the coronavirus pandemic. …
Datacenter System Makers Leary But Not Weary was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The days of the disk drive have been numbered for so long that it is hard to take any prediction of its demise seriously. …
Flash To Kill Disk In The Datacenter – And This Time, For Good was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Large language models, also known as AI foundation models and part of a broader category of AI transformer models, have been growing at an exponential pace in terms of the number of parameters they can process and the amount of compute and memory bandwidth capacity they require. …
Move Over ChatGPT, Meta Platforms LLaMA Makes Some Drama was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sponsored Feature: It’s a universal and immutable truth that data volumes continue to ramp up at eye-wateringly high rates. …
The path to 800 Gigabit Ethernet revealed was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
You know that climate change is a problem when a supercomputer to do short-term prediction of the formation of linear rainbands and the torrential downpours that they cause is 3.4X as powerful as the machines that do the day-to-day weather forecasting in a country. …
Japan Buys Supercomputer Just To Predict Torrential Downpours was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Online retailing giant Amazon has so many “traveling salesman optimization” NP hard problems is it crazy. …
Amazon Opens Up Solver At The Heart Of Quantum Chip Effort was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
GPU computing platform maker Nvidia announced its financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter ended in January, which showed the same digestion of already acquired capacity by the hyperscalers and cloud builders and the same hesitation to spend by enterprises that other compute engine makers for datacenter computing are also seeing. …
Nvidia To Build DGX Complexes In Clouds To Better Capitalize On Generative AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The increasing cost of goods and services is making everyone a little crazy, and corporate IT departments are not immune from the effects of the dual concerns of rising inflation and the desire by central banks to use interest rates to curb our economic enthusiasm and slow that inflation to a much more sane level. …
Inflation Up, Economy Jittery, And IT Spending Consequentially Slows was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.