There is a very interesting technical side to IT infrastructure, which we are obviously very keen on exploring here at The Next Platform. …
Server And Storage Spending Moves The Sticks Out Through 2026 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In emerging computing fields like quantum computing and neuromorphic computing, hardware usually grabs the lion’s share of attention. …
Software, Not Hardware, Will Drive Quantum and Neuromorphic Computing was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
After nearly six decades of getting smaller, faster, cooler, and cheaper, transistors are getting more and more expensive with each generation, and one could argue that this, more than any other factor, is going to drive system architecture choices for the foreseeable future. …
Where Amdahl’s Law And Gustafson’s Law Hit the Moore’s Law Wall was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Performance per watt is garnering increasing attention these days with efficiency and sustainability less of a PR point of pride and far more of a TCO concern. …
SPEC Gets Serious About Datacenter Energy Metrics was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Intel chief executive officer Pat Gelsinger came into this week’s Intel Innovation 2022 conference less than two years into his plans to reshape the giant chip maker to fit into an IT world that is rapidly becoming more open, more cooperative, and more software-driven. …
Gelsinger Is Still Trying To Build The Next Intel was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Back in 2015, when Intel was flush with cash thanks to a near-monopoly from X86 datacenter compute, it shelled out an incredible $16.7 billion to acquire FPGA maker Altera because a few hyperscalers and cloud builders were monkeying around with offloading whole chunks of CPU compute to FPGAs to create SmartNICs. …
Intel To Broaden FPGA Lineup And Make Them At Home was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It has been nearly four decades since the Chinese Academy of Sciences handed Liu Chuanzhi and Danny Lui $25,000 to help found Legend, originally a maker of TV sets that, in the wake of the success of the IBM PC and the Apple II computer, decided maybe becoming a maker of PCs was a better idea. …
Lenovo Plays The Long Game, Not The Wrong Game, In Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia has introduced the latest in its long-standing lineup of successive supercomputers with Shaheen III. …
KAUST Goes For Nvidia CPU-GPU, AMD CPU Combo In Shaheen-III Supercomputer was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Beijing-based hyperscale giant, ByteDance, owners of TikTok among other popular applications, have found that general purpose, open source recommendation engines fall far short of what is required for on-point real-time suggestions. …
China’s ByteDance Intros Different Approach to Recommendation at Scale was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
When computer architectures change in the datacenter, the attack always comes from the bottom. …
Arm Is The New RISC/Unix, RISC-V Is The New Arm was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In these modern IT days – where the rapidly-evolving environment stretches from the datacenter to the cloud and edge, with a range of hyperscale cloud providers and myriad clusters to choose from – what is increasingly important when creating and running workloads is portability. …
Building Software Bridges To Ensure Workload Portability was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Like everyone else on planet Earth, we were expecting for the next generation of graphics cards based on the “Ada Lovelace” architecture to be announced at the GTC fall 2022 conference this week, but we did not expect for the company to deliver a passively cooled, datacenter server friendly variant of the GeForce RTX 6000 series quite so fast. …
Nvidia’s “Lovelace” GPU Enters The Datacenter Through The Metaverse was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
You can’t be certain about a lot of things in the world these days, but one thing you can count on is the voracious appetite for parallel compute, high bandwidth memory, and high bandwidth networking for AI training workloads. …
The “Hopper” GPU Compute Ramp Finally Starts was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
While the COVID-19 pandemic still has a grip on the world –the global seven-day average number of deaths was at 1,660 this past week – the chaotic days of early 2020 seem to get smaller in the review mirror. …
The Pandemic Spawns Multi-Vendor Networks In Its Wake was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
One of the first tenets of machine learning, which is a very precise kind of data analytics and statistical analysis, is that more data beats a better algorithm every time. …
SambaNova Doubles Up Chips To Chase AI Foundation Models was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Let’s just say it right here at the beginning. The first wave of attempts at creating Arm server chips –Calxeda, Applied Micro, AMD, Marvell, Nvidia, and Samsung, among others – was disappointing. …
Arm Fills In Some Gaps – And Details – In Server Chip Roadmaps was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The hunger for more compute and storage capacity and for more bandwidth to shuffle and shuttle ever-increasing amounts of data is not insatiable among the hyperscalers and large cloud builders of the world. …
Hyperscalers And Clouds Switch Up To High Bandwidth Ethernet was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For decades, we have been using software to chop up servers with virtualization hypervisors to run many small workloads on a relatively big piece of iron. …
Why Aren’t There Software-Defined NUMA Servers Everywhere? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A lot of compute is moving to the edge, and that means that networking and storage has to follow it. …
Broadcom Secures The Edge By Beefing Up The Network Core was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Here is a simple algebraic equation that describes the relative computing oomph of two different CPU architectures over the past two decades: If Intel an X86 core is X, then an IBM Power core equals 2X. …
IBM Power10 Shreds Ice Lake Xeons For Transaction Processing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.