For the last few years, Graphcore has primarily been focused on slinging its IPU chips for training and inference systems of varying sizes, but that is changing now as the six-year-old British chip designer is joining the conversation about the convergence of AI and high-performance computing. …
Graphcore Thinks It Can Get An AI Piece Of The HPC Exascale Pie was written by Dylan Martin at The Next Platform.
Intel doesn’t want to just create a rival to the CUDA programming model and library stack so it can better compete against Nvidia in the GPU compute market. …
To Cure Iron Anemia With SYCL, Intel Buys Codeplay was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There are many interpretations of the word venado, which means deer or stag in Spanish, and this week it gets another one: A supercomputer based on future Nvidia CPU and GPU compute engines, and quite possibly if Los Alamos National Laboratory can convince Hewlett Packard Enterprise to support InfiniBand interconnects in its capability class “Shasta” Cray EX machines, Nvidia’s interconnect as well. …
Opening Up The Future “Venado” Grace-Hopper Supercomputer At Los Alamos was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Any time you build anything with more than 60 million parts, it is going to be a headache. …
Frontier: Step By Step, Over Decades, To Exascale was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Significant business and architectural changes can happen with 10X improvements, but the real milestones upon which we measure progress in computer science, whether it is for compute, storage, or networking, come at the 1,000X transitions. …
At Long Last, HPC Officially Breaks The Exascale Barrier was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
This time last year, Arm server CPU startup Ampere Computing provided a roadmap running out through 2023 describing its future products, aimed at demonstrating its commitment to the idea of Arm server chips. …
Ampere Roadmap Has Four Future Arm Server Chips was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Once Dell spun out VMware on Wall Street, it was only a matter of time before someone would put together enough money to acquire it. …
With VMware, Broadcom Has A Real Enterprise Software Stack was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Something that we have been waiting for a decade and a half to see has just happened: The datacenter is now the biggest business at Nvidia. …
Datacenter Becomes Nvidia’s Largest Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For a company that has been so enthusiastic about designing and building its own infrastructure and datacenters, Meta Platforms, the parent company to Facebook as well as WhatsApp and Instagram and one of the champions of the metaverse virtual reality a lot of us first read about in Burning Chrome, sure has not been building its own AI supercomputers lately. …
Once Again, Meta Buys Rather Than Builds A Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Scientists at the Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC) in England spend most of their time trying to unravel the secrets held in the deepest parts of space, from the Big Bang and the origins of the universe to mysteries like dark matter. …
Switchless Network Steers COSMA7 Supercomputer Down Congested Pathways was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Sponsored Feature Over the course of two decades, Intel drove the most important architectural change in the datacenter since the advent of the System/360 mainframe in the 1960s and the rise of RISC/Unix servers in the 1980s. …
Covering All The Hardware – And Software – Bases With IPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As is well known, we like feed and speeds and slots and watts metrics here at The Next Platform for any kind of gear that runs in the datacenter. …
The Value Proposition For Amazon’s Graviton3 Server Chip was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Not all cloud providers are the same, and even among the three cloud giants – Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud – there is some measure of differentiation. …
Vultr Slices Up GPUs On The Cloud To Democratize Acceleration was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.
The annual Computex computer expo in Taiwan is one of the places that IT vendors like to trot out some of their new wares, and most of the time they have to do with consumer electronics or maybe PCs and smartphones, but every now and then, we get some insight into future datacenter chippery or gear. …
Nvidia Adds Breadth And Depth To System Designs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Korean Meteorological Administration (KMA) operates 20+ numerical weather prediction (NWP) models, including Korean numerical models, for weather forecasting. …
Large-Scale Weather Modeling Shows What True HPC Networking Can Do was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
With enterprises increasing embracing HPC environments to help manage the tidal wave of data that’s washing over them and the rise of AI and machine learning workloads, tech vendors selling into the market need to demonstrate both flexibility and adaptability. …
Panasas Adapts To The Ebbs And Flows Of Enterprise HPC was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
After years of false starts and delays with various products, we are finally at a point where Intel will truly start to test the breadth of its heterogenous computing strategy, thanks to the release of new Gaudi2 machine learning chips from Intel and the upcoming launch of its much-anticipated “Ponte Vecchio” GPU that will power Argonne National Laboratory’s “Aurora” exascale supercomputer. …
Intel Takes The SYCL To Nvidia’s CUDA With Migration Tool was written by Dylan Martin at The Next Platform.
The good news, and we all need to be looking at the bright sides of things a bit these days is that the biggest IT shops in the world want to buy a lot of datacenter gear from Cisco Systems. …
Cisco: Datacenter Demand Strong, Supply Not So Much was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Et tu, Meta?
Of all of the world’s hyperscalers and large cloud builders, only Meta Platforms, dominated by its Facebook and related social network businesses like Instagram and WhatsApp, is a pure-play hyperscaler. …
The Most Obvious Hyperscaler To Do Custom Chips Was Always Facebook was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Why does Google need another database, and why in particular does it need to introduce a version of PostgreSQL highly tuned for Google’s datacenter-scale disaggregated compute and storage? …
Google Needs Another Database To Attack Oracle, DB2, And SQL Server Directly was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.