Usually, innovation starts with the hyperscalers, HPC centers, and cloud builders of the world and spreads to the enterprise. …
Hyperscalers Start Taking Pure Storage Flash For A Spin was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Institutions supporting HPC applications are finding increased demand for heterogeneous infrastructures to support simulation and modeling, machine learning, high performance data analytics, collaborative computing and analytics, and data federation. …
HPC In The Cloud Enables Diverse Scientific Research was written by Ken Strandberg at The Next Platform.
While AWS is making it clear they will continue to innovate around GPUs for cloud-based machine learning, there was little doubt after today that their own Trainium devices are set to outdo what even the top-line Nvidia GPU instances have achieved. …
AWS Sizes Trainium for AI/ML Model Boom was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
It is always an exciting time when there is a new compute engine coming into the market, and interest is particularly keen with any new Arm server chip entry. …
AWS Goes Wide And Deep With Graviton3 Server Chip was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
At this point in supercomputing, it’s becoming an anomaly to see an upcoming double-digit petaflops system not using AMD for CPU and GPU but the National Renewable Energy Laboratory will be taking a more traditional route for the “Kestrel” machine. …
NREL Supercomputer Announce Hints at Future Nvidia GPUs was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
It may have taken the better part of a decade, but the Itanium platform has yielded the kinds of profits that Hewlett Packard Enterprise long sought and rarely attained. …
The Ghosts Of Itanium – And HPC – Give HPE Long Sought Profits was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Adam Selipsky spent 11 years helping Andy Jassy build Amazon Web Services from a fledgling compute and storage utility to the world’s largest public cloud services provider before leaving in 2016 to become CEO of analytics software maker Tableau Software. …
New AWS CEO Puts Greater Focus On Industry Verticals was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Supercomputers are expensive, and getting increasingly so. Even if they are delivering impressive performance gains over the past decade, modern HPC workloads require an incredible amount of performance, and this is particularly true of any workload that is going to blend together traditional HPC simulation and modeling with some sort of machine learning training and inference. …
In A Peer-To-Peer Datacenter, PCI-Express Fabrics Will Be Pervasive was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In the thirty years the Top 500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, Thailand has never had a system rank high enough to secure a spot. …
Thailand Set to Join Global Supercomputing Elite was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Few things sound more Intel than “StarLake” but in fact, AMD is at the heart of an announcement with Chinese hyperscale giant, Tencent. …
Tencent All In With Self-Styled AMD “Milan” Servers was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
When we analyzed the financial reports coming out of hyperconverged platform maker Nutanix thirteen weeks ago, we lamented the fact that while Nutanix defined a new market and is one of the leaders in that market, it has been unable to expand its market fast enough to become a profitable company even after being in the field for more than a decade. …
Should Nutanix And Citrix Systems Merge To Make A Better Platform? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The enterprise rush to embrace multicloud and hybrid cloud has not slowed over the past several years and, indeed, has only accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic as organizations rushed to leverage cloud services to adapt to their suddenly highly distributed IT environments, with most of their employees working remotely. …
Creating A Transit System For The Multicloud World was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
It is refreshing to find instances in the IT sector where competing groups with their own agendas work together for the common good and the improvement of systems everywhere. …
Finally, A Coherent Interconnect Strategy: CXL Absorbs Gen-Z was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Patience in a slow-growing market is tough, but supercomputing cloud startup, Rescale, is reaping rewards for its persistence. …
What Rescale’s $105M Funding Round Says About HPC Cloud was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
A key trend in the ever-changing IT world is bringing whatever is needed – processing, storage, analytics, networking – closer to where the data is. …
ScaleFlux Takes Computational Storage Up A Notch With Homegrown Chip, Software Tools was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
And actually, one could say it is also far more than it appears. …
China’s Exascale Quantum Simulation Not All It Appears was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Hold on a second. Nvidia’s sales of chips and systems to supercomputer centers is not as big as we might be thinking. …
AMD Is Beating Nvidia At Its 2017 Game, But The Game Has Moved On was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The world would be a simpler place for all processing engine makers if they just had to make one device to cover all use cases, thus maximizing volumes and minimizing per unit costs. …
Aiming At Hyperscalers And Edge, Nvidia Cuts Down To The A2 Accelerator was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
High performance computing hardware is really a software game, and the software we are referring to is at a very low level where deep expertise in libraries and solvers can make the difference between a capable device performing up to its specifications and, well, not so much. …
Xilinx Tunes Up FPGAs For HPC, Graph Analytics was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Paid Post Intel has been at the forefront of democratizing high performance computing (HPC) for the past three decades, and the HPC leader is taking its efforts up several more notches with the Aurora exascale HPC and AI supercomputer being designed and built by Intel and Hewlett Packard Enterprise for Argonne National Laboratory. …
Making Exascale Accessible To Everyone was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.