It has been almost two years since infrastructure software maker Progress Software spent $220 million to buy Chef, the open source automation tech vendor Chef that was helping to fuel the “infrastructure as code” trend. …
Making Progress With Infrastructure As Code was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Twelve months ago, Hewlett Packard Enterprise partnered with Dark Matter’s cloud anthropology unit to uncover the rapidly advancing culture and sub-cultures of cloud adoption. …
The Call For Reconsideration Of Cloud Strategies Has Arrived was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
The democratization of any effective technology happens automatically by virtue of its success, even if the complexity it presents initially overwhelms some of the smartest people who wield it. …
Making AI Accessible To One And All was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
How much is a pinch of sand worth? Well, that all depends on what you do with it. …
TSMC: Life’s A Beach, And Then You Make Dies was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If there is one job that system architects are always doing, it is to make highly complex data and the applications that chew on it easier to use, thus making that data more accessible to more people and more applications in an ever-expanding virtuous cycle. …
More People Using More Data Means Wrestling With Exponential Complexity was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
By all accounts, Big Blue had a pretty good quarter ending in June, with sales of its System z16 mainframes skyrocketing upwards as they do every couple of years at the beginning of a new cycle and sales of its high-end Power10 machines also getting some traction. …
Big Blue Turns In A Solid Quarter For Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Data science, AI/ML, and HPC have been influential in tackling complex issues like the coronavirus pandemic. …
Solving Society’s Big Problems Means Funding More Than Supercomputers was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.
The hyperscalers and cloud builders are not the only ones having fun with the CXL protocol and its ability to create tiered, disaggregated, and composable main memory for systems. …
KAIST Shows Off DirectCXL Disaggregated Memory Prototype was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A long time ago, when we first started The Next Platform, Urs Hölzle, then senior vice president of the Technical Infrastructure team at Google, told us that to gain a 20 percent improvement in price/performance it would absolutely change from the X86 architecture to Power architecture – or indeed any other architecture – and even for one generation of machines. …
Google Follows Suit With Microsoft On Ampere Arm Instances was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In Nvidia’s decade and a half push to make GPU acceleration core to all kinds of high performance computing, a key component has been the CUDA parallel computing platform that made it easier for developers to create applications that can leverage graphics chips for general purpose processing. …
As CUDA Is To GPU, QODA is To Quantum Compute was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The “Cirrus” Power10 processor from IBM, which we codenamed for Big Blue because it refused to do it publicly and because we understand the value of a synonym here at The Next Platform, shipped last September in the “Denali” Power E1080 big iron NUMA machine. …
Can IBM Get Back Into HPC With Power10? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The acquisitions last year of Nimbix, Visual BI, and Ideal GRP by Atos signaled a more aggressive push by the European HPC vendor into the cloud and tech services space and coincided with a plan to expand beyond its legacy business and into such new growth areas. …
Pulling All the Levers For HPC In The Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Dynamic allocation of resources inside of a system, within a cluster, and across clusters is a bin-packing nightmare for hyperscalers and cloud builders. …
Microsoft Azure Blazes The Disaggregated Memory Trail With zNUMA was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
From the moment the first rumors surfaced that AMD was thinking about acquiring FPGA maker Xilinx, we thought this deal was as much about software as it was about hardware. …
Now Comes The Hard Part, AMD: Software was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In March, Nvidia introduced its GH100, the first GPU based on the new “Hopper” architecture, which is aimed at both HPC and AI workloads, and importantly for the latter, supports an eight-bit FP8 floating point processing format. …
Chip Makers Press For Standardized FP8 Format For AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The people running Google Cloud can see the tides of HPC changing and know that, as we discussed only a few months ago, there is a fairly good chance that more HPC workloads will move to cloud builders over time as their sheer scale increasingly dictates future chip and system designs and the economics of processing. …
With Cloud HPC Toolkit, Google Pursues HPC, Intel Pushes OneAPI was written by Dylan Martin at The Next Platform.
When it comes to building any platform, the hardware is the easiest part and, for many of us, the fun part. …
Precision, Accuracy, Scale – And Experience – All Matter With AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
What is the most expensive component that hyperscalers and cloud builders put into their X86 servers? …
The Future Of System Memory Is Mostly CXL was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
After almost two years with data storage giant Western Digital, Ashley Gorakhpurwalla is getting used to the questions. …
Hard Drives Are The Mark Twain Of Technology was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Perhaps Janet Jackson should be the official spokesperson of the supercomputing industry. …
So, You Think You Can Design A 20 Exaflops Supercomputer? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.