With each passing generation of GPU accelerator engines from Nvidia, machine learning drives more and more of the architectural choices and changes and traditional HPC simulation and modeling drives less and less. …
Deep Dive Into Nvidia’s “Hopper” GPU Architecture was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Virtualization has been an engine of efficiency in the IT industry over the past two decades, decoupling workloads from the underlying hardware and thus allowing multiple workloads to be consolidated into a single physical system as well as moved around relatively easily with live migration of virtual machines. …
Will Open Compute Backing Drive SIOV Adoption? was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.
There may not be as much structured data in the world as there is unstructured data, but one could easily argue that the structured data – mostly purchasing transactions and other kinds of historical data data stored in systems of record – is at least of equal value. …
Revving Up Relational Databases For Scorching Native AI Performance was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Paid Feature Over the last several years, the limiting factors to large-scale AI/ML were first hardware capabilities, followed by the scalability of complex software frameworks. …
Liquid Cooling Is The Next Key To Future AI Growth was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
Remember when only a couple of variations of processors were available for servers in any given generation of server CPUs? …
The Mass Customization Wave Is Starting For Servers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is the nature of capability class supercomputers to try to push the envelope on as many different architectural fronts as possible. …
Early Frontier Supercomputer Tests Show Decent Performance Leaps was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Within a year or so, with the launch of the “Grace” Arm server CPUs, it will not be heresy for anyone at Nvidia to believe, or to say out loud, that not every workload in the datacenter needs to have GPU acceleration. …
Nvidia Embraces The CPU World With “Grace” Arm Server Chip was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It has taken untold thousands of people to make machine learning, and specifically the deep learning variety, the most viable form of artificial intelligence. …
The Buck Still Stops Here For GPU Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There are no shortage of options for enterprises when it comes to Kubernetes platforms. …
Cisco Rolls Out New Systems As It Pushes Its Own Kubernetes Stack was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Paid Feature Few organizations have the resources and talent on hand to skillfully navigate HPC infrastructure management and the emerging demands of AI/ML training and inference simultaneously. …
A Seamless Close To The HPC-AI Infrastructure Gap was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
Normally, when we look at a system, we think from the compute engines at a very fine detail and then work our way out across the intricacies of the nodes and then the interconnect and software stack that scales it across the nodes into a distributed computing platform. …
Nvidia Will Be A Prime Contractor For Big AI Supercomputers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Nvidia and VMware have forged a tight partnership when it comes to bringing AI to the enterprise, which stands to reason given the prevalence of VMware’s ESXi hypervisor and vSphere management tools across more than 300,000 companies worldwide. …
Red Hat Stacks Up Software To Contain AI On Nvidia Platforms was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
When the “Aldebaran” datacenter GPUs were launched by AMD last November for the HPC and AI crowd pushing up into the exascale stratosphere, only the two top-end models of the Instinct GPU accelerators –ones that use the Open Accelerator Module (OAM) form factor put forth by Facebook and Microsoft under the Open Compute Project – were actually available. …
AMD Rounds Out “Aldebaran” GPU Lineup With Instinct MI210 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There are a lot of things that compute engine makers have to do if they want to compete in the datacenter, but perhaps the most important thing is to be consistent. …
“Hopper” GH100 GPUs Are The Heart Of A More Expansive Nvidia System was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise was a bit ahead of the curve when it announced in 2019 that by this year it would be offering its entire product portfolio as a service and that its GreenLake hybrid cloud platform would be the foundation of the effort. …
HPE Focuses On Networking, HPC, Storage With GreenLake Expansion was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Last fall ahead of the SC21 supercomputing conference, AMD said it was going to be the first of the major compute engine makers to add 3D vertical L3 cache to its chips, in this case to variants of the “Milan” Epyc 7003 series of processors that debuted in March 2021 called the “Milan-X” chips. …
“Milan-X” 3D Vertical Cache Yields Epyc HPC Bang For The Buck Boost was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Here we are, on the Friday before the flagship GPU Technology Conference hosted by Nvidia is set to kick off. …
Why Nvidia Should Acquire SUSE was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Google and VMware have announced a new element to their partnership that the two companies said will simplify cloud migrations, provide more flexibility, and help companies modernize their enterprise applications with a minimum amount of pain. …
VMware Widens Its Road To The Cloud With Google Partnership was written by Brandon Vigliarolo at The Next Platform.
Regular readers of The Next Platform know there are few more attention-grabbing tech events than Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC). …
Edge. Smart Cities. Retail AI. Oh My! was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
To hardware or not to hardware, that is a real question for vendors peddling all kinds of software in the datacenter. …
Liqid Launches Its Own Systems, Chases AI And HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.