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.
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.