System architects are often impatient about the future, especially when they can see something good coming down the pike. …
CXL Borgs IBM’s OpenCAPI, Weaves Memory Fabrics With 3.0 Spec was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For the past four years, Nvidia’s datacenter business, which includes GPUs, networking, and servers, has been hot on the heels of its gaming GPU business. …
Datacenter Props Up Nvidia As Gaming Sales Collapse was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Chip design is as much of an art as it is an engineering feat. …
Using AI Chips To Design Better AI Chips was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
In recent years, when the economy became unstable, enterprises tended to look to the cloud as a safe haven. …
Cloud Builders Navigate A Sea Of Economic Uncertainty was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Software is not actually eating the world, but it is absolutely smashing out of appliance-style boxes and creating a massive, interconnected overlay atop aggregations of very shiny and powerful hardware. …
E Pluribus, Network – Arista Networks, That Is was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sometimes, competing for business means coming up with better products than your rivals. …
AMD Finally Reaps The Fortunes It Has Sown was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Amazon Web Services is not the largest IT supplier in the world, but it is well on its way to attaining that position as it has notched up another quarter of growth in what is a tough economic climate. …
Money Keeps Raining Down From The AWS Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
This day always comes. It is the nature of monopoly and hubris. …
Intel Let The Chips Fall Where They Might was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Natural language processing has been an easy fit for these relatively early days of artificial intelligence. …
Nvidia Speeds Up Large Language Modeling was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
If you are an HPC center in Europe, and particularly one that is funded by public funds, you are thinking about Arm-based CPUs in your supercomputers. …
Strong-Armed Into HPC, Like It Or Not was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Atos, for a long time a key IT services provider in Europe, stepped onto the HPC stage in a big way in 2014 when it bought systems maker Bull’s hardware business in $840 million, instantly making it a major supercomputer vendor on the continent. …
Atos Notches Up Another Win With “Pegaso” Supercomputer At Petrobras was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Back in early July, we covered the launch of IBM’s entry and midrange Power10 systems and mused about how Big Blue could use these systems to reinvigorate an HPC business rather than just satisfy the needs of the enterprise customers who run transaction processing systems and are looking to add AI inference to their applications through matrix math units on the Power10 chip. …
IBM Uses Power10 CPU As An I/O Switch was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
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.