Cerebras Wants Its Piece Of An Increasingly Heterogenous HPC World
Changing the compute paradigm in the datacenter, or even extending it or augmenting it in some fashion, is no easy task. …
Cerebras Wants Its Piece Of An Increasingly Heterogenous HPC World was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Clouded thinking that could be costing us
Sponsored Post: It could be time to start examining our growing reliance on public cloud platforms. …
Clouded thinking that could be costing us was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
HBM Gives Xeon SPs A Big Boost On Bandwidth Bound Work
If there is one bright spot in the Xeon SP server chip line from Intel, it is the version of the “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon SP processor that has HBM memory welded to it. …
HBM Gives Xeon SPs A Big Boost On Bandwidth Bound Work was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Dell Wants To Put HPC And Quantum Into More Hands
The need for high-powered computing isn’t going away. Enterprises trying to corral the massive amounts of data they’re generating and adopting emerging technologies like machine learning are demanding the sort of HPC capabilities that not too long ago were reserved for research and educational institutions. …
Dell Wants To Put HPC And Quantum Into More Hands was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Testing The Mettle Of The Top Supercomputing Iron On Earth
It’s fall, so that means it is the annual Super Computing conference that has been held in the United States by the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society since 1989. …
Testing The Mettle Of The Top Supercomputing Iron On Earth was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Why AMD “Genoa” Epyc Server CPUs Take The Heavyweight Title
The server CPU racket is not an easy one. It would be tough to find a more difficult business, and it gets harder to compete each year as computing becomes more and more focused at the hyperscalers and cloud builders, who demand the best for the least money. …
Why AMD “Genoa” Epyc Server CPUs Take The Heavyweight Title was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Acute Role Reversal For AMD And Intel In Datacenter Compute
Everything looked normal. An audience of company executives and employees, journalists, and analysts staring at the brightly lit stage as the chief executive officer strode from one side to the other boasting of a chip’s performance and power efficiency, the advanced technologies that went into making it, and the marked advantages it held over the best the competition had to offer. …
The Acute Role Reversal For AMD And Intel In Datacenter Compute was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
With AI, You Need To See The Bigger Hardware And Software Picture
Sponsored Feature: It’s a decade and a half since researchers dazzled the tech world by demonstrating that GPUs could be used to dramatically accelerate key AI operations. …
With AI, You Need To See The Bigger Hardware And Software Picture was written by Joseph Martins at The Next Platform.
One New Feature For Intel’s HPC Compute Engines: Contrition
It is very rare for any of the major semiconductor suppliers of the world to ever admit that things are going wrong, even when we all know that they have been. …
One New Feature For Intel’s HPC Compute Engines: Contrition was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
HPC Follows The Enterprise Into The Cloud
It’s no secret that the hyperscalers and cloud builders are becoming the biggest drivers of the datacenter hardware portion of the IT market. …
HPC Follows The Enterprise Into The Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Co-Location Plays A Big Role In Hybrid Cloud, Too
In the ongoing discussions about the still-evolving world of hybrid cloud, the focus tends to be on what enterprises are doing within their own on-premises datacenters – and private clouds – and their work with public cloud players like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. …
Co-Location Plays A Big Role In Hybrid Cloud, Too was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Mashing Up CXL And OpenCAPI For Shared Disaggregated Memory
The industry is impatient for disaggregated and shared memory for a lot of reasons, and many system architects don’t want to wait until PCI-Express 6.0 or 7.0 transports are in the field and the CXL 3.0 and beyond protocols that ride on it to reach out to external memory have been tweaked to do proper sharing across servers. …
Mashing Up CXL And OpenCAPI For Shared Disaggregated Memory was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Economics And The Inevitability Of The DPU
The advent of the Data Processing Unit or the I/O Processing Unit, or whatever you want to call it, was driven as much by economics as it was by architectural necessity. …
Economics And The Inevitability Of The DPU was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Cutting To The Front Of The Server CPU Line
In case you haven’t figured it out yet, if you are not one of the hyperscalers or one of the biggest cloud builders, then you are a second class citizen, or maybe even third class, when it comes to the semiconductors that go into different part of the systems that run your organization. …
Cutting To The Front Of The Server CPU Line was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Hyperscalers And Clouds Lift Arista Networks Sky High
A massive buildout of infrastructure is happening within the datacenter walls of at least several of the hyperscalers and large clouds in the world if the financial results of Arista Networks, the upstart switch maker that has been taking on Cisco Systems in the datacenter with machines based on merchant silicon for more than a decade. …
Hyperscalers And Clouds Lift Arista Networks Sky High was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Only The Agile And Adaptable Survive
Red Hat is not just the top Linux software vendor and the driving force behind IBM’s hybrid cloud ambitions. …
Only The Agile And Adaptable Survive was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Mashing Up CXL And Gen-Z For Shared Disaggregated Memory
If you are impatient for not just memory pooling powered by the CXL protocol, but the much more difficult task of memory sharing by servers attached to giant blocks of external memory, you are not alone. …
Mashing Up CXL And Gen-Z For Shared Disaggregated Memory was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Lenovo And UConn Use HPC And AI To Predict The Weather
Sponsored Feature: Humans have wanted to know what the weather is going to do since first we understood how the forces of nature determined our expectations of survival. …
Lenovo And UConn Use HPC And AI To Predict The Weather was written by James Hayes at The Next Platform.
The Pax Chipzilla Is Over, And Intel Can’t Hold Back The Barbarians
It is the nature of big tech companies with near monopolies to start looking a bit like Rome in its Golden Age – the Pax Romana that held from when Augustus Caesar became emperor in 27 BC until Marcus Aurelius died in 180 AD. …
The Pax Chipzilla Is Over, And Intel Can’t Hold Back The Barbarians was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Datacenter Is The Hot Spot In IT Spending In 2022
If you follow the IT spending forecasts of IDC and Gartner, as we do with each revision, what you will notice is that spending forecasts are constantly changing as economic conditions change. …
Datacenter Is The Hot Spot In IT Spending In 2022 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.