All of the great technologists live in the future and then they bring it back to us with the help of countless engineers who derive the specifications from their vision and make ideas into reality and, ultimately, into money to repeat the process again. …
Nvidia CEO On Competition, Software, And The Omniverse was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Datacenters are notorious consumers of power but there is a revolution brewing. …
Carbon Negative Supercomputing is Closer than it Appears was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Per aspera, ad astra, an old Latin adage that means “through striving, to the stars,” is the root of the name for a hybrid HPC and AI supercomputer that the Grand Équipment National de Calcul Intensif (GENCI), working in conjunction with the Centre Informatique National de l’Enseignement Supérieur (CINES), one of three national HPC centers in France, will be building next year to bring a factor of 20X more compute power to bear on scientific applications. …
HPE Wins Another European HPC Center With Cray EX Plus AMD Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There are no greater bragging rights in supercomputing than those that come with top ten listing on the bi-annual list of the world’s most powerful systems—the Top 500. …
Why Did China Keep Its Exascale Supercomputers Quiet? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Let’s just cut right to the chase scene. The latest Top500 ranking of supercomputers, announced today at the SC21 supercomputing conference being held in St Louis, needed the excitement of an actual 1 exaflops sustained performance machine running the High Performance Linpack benchmark at 64-bit precision. …
Top500 Supercomputers: Hungry For The Exascale Feast was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sometimes, you do put new wine in old bottles. This is what it looks like Meta – well, really its Facebook social network group – is doing as it adds a microserver node based on a custom AMD “Milan” Epyc 7003 processor to its datacenter infrastructure. …
AMD Gets Inside Facebook’s Latest – And Most Powerful – Microserver was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you want to build the world’s largest social network, with 2.9 billion users, and the massive PHP stack that makes it into an application, you need a lot of infrastructure and you need it to arrive predictably. …
Getting Meta: Abstracting And Multisourcing The Network Like An FBOSS was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
While Hungarian banks with collective names like OTP Group might not have household recognition here in the U.S., …
European Bank Sees Path to ‘Fastest AI Supercomputer’ was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
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You won’t be surprised that AWS serves up some of the most powerful HPC products and services on the planet. …
Want To Get Your Hands On AWS’ Latest HPC Services? Here’s How was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
The hyperscalers, cloud builders, HPC centers, and OEM server manufacturers of the world who build servers for everyone else all want, more than anything else, competition between component suppliers and a regular, predictable, almost boring cadence of new component introductions. …
AMD Deepens Its Already Broad Epyc Server Chip Roadmap was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In a decade and a half, Nvidia has come a long way from its early days provider of graphics chips for personal computers and other consumer devices. …
Nvidia Declares That It Is A Full-Stack Platform was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
If you want to know how and why AMD motors have been chosen for so many of the pre-exascale and exascale HPC and AI systems, despite the dominance of Intel in CPUs and the dominance of Nvidia in GPUs, you need look no further for an answer than the new “Aldebaran” Instinct MI200 GPU accelerator from Nvidia and its Infinity Fabric 3.0 coherent interconnect that is being also added to selected Epyc CPUs from Nvidia. …
The AMD “Aldebaran” GPU That Won Exascale was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Necessity is the mother of invention, and advances in chip packaging are catching up to those in transistor design when it comes to working in three dimensions instead of the much more limited two. …
Vertical L3 Cache Raises The AMD Server Performance Bar was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Microsoft has been among the first to build and operationalize clusters based on AMD’s Milan-X processors, which were formally announced this morning. …
Microsoft Azure Brings the Cache with Milan-X was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Anyone building any kind of system that employs any kind of chippery – which means any device today excepting maybe an old-school hammer or screwdriver – is suffering from the vicissitudes and capriciousness of semiconductor supplies. …
Semiconductor Supply Woes Barely Slow Arista Networks was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The HPC community spends a lot of time tracking the development of and production use of the flagship machines deployed by the major national and academic labs of the world. …
The Microcosm Of Global HPC In The Lone Star State was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The rapid movement of data to the cloud, the sharp rise in the amount of east-west traffic and the broadening adoption of modern applications like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are putting stress on traditional networking infrastructures that were designed for a different era and are struggling to meet the demands for better performance, more bandwidth and less latency. …
Startup Rips The Switch Out Of High-Performance Networks was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The coronavirus pandemic giveth to Amazon retail business and its Amazon Web Services cloud business, and the pandemic taketh away from the Amazon retail business. …
Amazon Is The Flywheel, AWS Is The Cash Register was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Database acceleration using specialized co-processors is nothing new. Just to give a few examples, data warehouses running on the Netezza platform, owned by IBM for more than a decade now, uses a custom and parallelized PostgreSQL database matched to FPGA acceleration for database and storage routines. …
The Accelerated Path To Petabyte-Scale Graph Databases was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
While nothing can beat the notoriety of the long-standing LINPACK benchmark, the metric by which supercomputer performance is gauged, there is ample room for a more practical measure. …
Real-World HPC Gets the Benchmark It Deserves was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.