It is hard to imagine, but someday, IBM may not care much about its proprietary System z and Power Systems platforms. …
The Financial Longevity That Red Hat Gives IBM was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In a post Moore’s Law world, domain specific hardware is becoming more common. …
Oil And Gas Industry To Get Its Own Stencil Tensor Accelerator was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
When it comes to supercomputing in academia, the cost of a cluster is almost always an issue and this, coupled with the desire to drive as much compute as possible, drives architectural choices. …
NCSA Delta Supercomputer Adopts Slingshot But Forgoes Cray “Shasta” Design was written by Dylan Martin at The Next Platform.
Sponsored Feature. There are a lot of things that the HPC centers and hyperscalers of the world have in common, and one of them is their attitudes about software. …
Wanted: A Complete – And Heavily Customizable – HPC Software Stack was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you were going to build an electronic brain in 2022, it might look something like the Neocortex supercomputer at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center at Carnegie Mellon University. …
PSC Upgrades Neocortex AI Supercomputer With New Cerebras Engines was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Frustrated by the limitations of Ethernet, Google has taken the best ideas from InfiniBand and Cray’s “Aries” interconnect and created a new distributed switching architecture called Aquila and a new GNet protocol stack that delivers the kind of consistent and low latency that the search engine giant has been seeking for decades. …
With Aquila, Google Abandons Ethernet To Outdo InfiniBand was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For most enterprises, the future of IT is infrastructure and systems software that spans multiple clouds, a combination of both disparate public clouds and their own private clouds. …
Weaving Infrastructure Islands Into A Cloudy Pangea was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
There is a likelihood that we could see both British chip designer Arm Holdings and one of its server-focused startup adherents, Ampere Computing, go public this year, as indicated by recent rumors of the first and news from Ampere itself this morning that it has confidentially filed for an initial public offering. …
Ampere’s IPO Filing Signals More Arm Cash And More Arm Scrutiny was written by Dylan Martin at The Next Platform.
The hyperscalers have taught us many lessons in the past two decades, and one of them is that everything that can be defined in software should be so that it can be controlled automatically and programmatically – and that goes double for hardware, which has required so much human babysitting over the decades. …
Expanding DevOps With Infrastructure As Code was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Let the era of 3D V-Cache in HPC begin.
Inspired by the idea of AMD’s “Milan-X” Epyc 7003 processors with their 3D V-Cache stacked L3 cache memory and then propelled by actual benchmark tests pitting regular Milan CPUs against Milan-X processors using real-world and synthetic HPC applications, researchers at RIKEN Lab in Japan, where the “Fugaku” supercomputer based on Fujitsu’s impressive A64FX vectorized Arm server chip, have fired up a simulation of a hypothetical A64FX follow-on that could, in theory, be built in 2028 and provide nearly an order of magnitude more performance than the current A64FX. …
Stacking Up L2 Cache, RIKEN Shows 10X Speedup For A64FX By 2028 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Industry benchmarks are important because, no matter that comparisons are odious, IT organizations nonetheless have to make them to plot out the architectures of their future systems. …
The Performance Of MLPerf As A Ubiquitous Benchmark Is Lacking was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
To a certain extent, the only thing that really matters in a computing system is what changes in its memory, and to that extent, this is what makes computers like us. …
The HBM3 Roadmap Is Just Getting Started was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
To Gerrit Kazmaier, the distinction between managed databases and data lakes has never made much sense, and it makes even less sense today as data is piling up like soaring mountains being pushed up by tectonic forces. …
Google BigLake Stretches BigQuery Across All Data was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
For those looking to try out Fujitsu’s Arm-based PRIMEHPC FX1000 system, the company is opening up the same capabilities via its own cloud service. …
Fujitsu Cloud Service to Put Fugaku Supercomputer in Reach was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Wouldn’t it be funny if Google ends up being the stalwart supporter of the X86 architecture among the hyperscalers and cloud builders? …
The Looming Arm Server Battle Between AWS And Microsoft was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
At some point, if Microsoft has its way, a substantial amount of computing that enterprise end users do on PCs could end up running in the cloud, and that could have a dramatic effect on the depth and breadth of the Azure cloud. …
How Much Will Windows 365 PCs Drive Azure Infrastructure? was written by Brandon Vigliarolo at The Next Platform.
Fresh off a record revenue quarter, Lenovo plans to add 12,000 R&D staff members to their global ranks over the next three years, according to the company’s Chairman and CEO, Yuanqing Yang. …
Lenovo Pushes Record Revenue into New R&D was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Lisa Su has had the datacenter in her sights since taking over as president and chief executive officer of AMD in 2014, charting a course that would allow the processor to once again become a factor in the global server market after a decade or so in the wilderness following its brief but high-profile breakthrough with its first Opteron processor in 2003. …
AMD Makes A Big DPU Move With $1.9 Billion Bid For Pensando was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
When Nvidia announced a deal to buy Mellanox Technologies for $6.9 billion in March 2019, everyone spent a lot of time thinking about the synergies between the two companies and how networking was going to become an increasingly important part of the distributed systems that run HPC and AI workloads. …
Spectrum-4 Ethernet Leaps To 800G With Nvidia Circuits was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
With HPC and AI workloads only getting larger and demanding more compute power and bandwidth capabilities, system architects are trying to map out the best ways to feed the beast as they ponder future systems. …
Putting Composability Through The Paces On HPC Systems was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.