When computer architectures change in the datacenter, the attack always comes from the bottom. …
Arm Is The New RISC/Unix, RISC-V Is The New Arm was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In these modern IT days – where the rapidly-evolving environment stretches from the datacenter to the cloud and edge, with a range of hyperscale cloud providers and myriad clusters to choose from – what is increasingly important when creating and running workloads is portability. …
Building Software Bridges To Ensure Workload Portability was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Like everyone else on planet Earth, we were expecting for the next generation of graphics cards based on the “Ada Lovelace” architecture to be announced at the GTC fall 2022 conference this week, but we did not expect for the company to deliver a passively cooled, datacenter server friendly variant of the GeForce RTX 6000 series quite so fast. …
Nvidia’s “Lovelace” GPU Enters The Datacenter Through The Metaverse was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
You can’t be certain about a lot of things in the world these days, but one thing you can count on is the voracious appetite for parallel compute, high bandwidth memory, and high bandwidth networking for AI training workloads. …
The “Hopper” GPU Compute Ramp Finally Starts was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
While the COVID-19 pandemic still has a grip on the world –the global seven-day average number of deaths was at 1,660 this past week – the chaotic days of early 2020 seem to get smaller in the review mirror. …
The Pandemic Spawns Multi-Vendor Networks In Its Wake was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
One of the first tenets of machine learning, which is a very precise kind of data analytics and statistical analysis, is that more data beats a better algorithm every time. …
SambaNova Doubles Up Chips To Chase AI Foundation Models was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Let’s just say it right here at the beginning. The first wave of attempts at creating Arm server chips –Calxeda, Applied Micro, AMD, Marvell, Nvidia, and Samsung, among others – was disappointing. …
Arm Fills In Some Gaps – And Details – In Server Chip Roadmaps was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The hunger for more compute and storage capacity and for more bandwidth to shuffle and shuttle ever-increasing amounts of data is not insatiable among the hyperscalers and large cloud builders of the world. …
Hyperscalers And Clouds Switch Up To High Bandwidth Ethernet was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For decades, we have been using software to chop up servers with virtualization hypervisors to run many small workloads on a relatively big piece of iron. …
Why Aren’t There Software-Defined NUMA Servers Everywhere? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A lot of compute is moving to the edge, and that means that networking and storage has to follow it. …
Broadcom Secures The Edge By Beefing Up The Network Core was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Here is a simple algebraic equation that describes the relative computing oomph of two different CPU architectures over the past two decades: If Intel an X86 core is X, then an IBM Power core equals 2X. …
IBM Power10 Shreds Ice Lake Xeons For Transaction Processing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A combination of Lenovo HPC and system optimization could help genomics detect and defuse healthcare timebombs
Sponsored Feature The concept of precision medicine is revolutionizing healthcare by ‘personalizing’ treatment using genomics to provide insights into a patient’s genetic make-up gleaned from study of their own DNA. …
How Multi-Scaled HPC-Enabled Genomics Will Help Save Your Life was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
If you want to figure out what is going on with spending on the corporate datacenters of the world, a good place to start is to examine the financial results of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Dell Technologies, which are still the two largest original equipment makers for servers in the world. …
The Bellwethers Of Enterprise IT Spending Fare Reasonably Well was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Before founding software-defined networking startup PlumGrid and then moving to VMware when it bought his company in 2016, Pere Monclus spent almost 12 years with Cisco Systems at a time when while much of enterprise networking was still in the corporate datacenter, the shift to network virtualization and the migration to the cloud were getting underway. …
The Network Binds The Increasingly Distributed Datacenter was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
China is the world’s second largest economy, it has the world’s largest population, and it is only a matter of time before has a world-class technology ecosystem spanning the smallest transistors to the largest hyperscale and HPC systems. …
GPU Engines Are So Strategic China Will Have To Use Its Own was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A decade and a half ago, when Dennard scaling ran out of gas and many of us were starting to first think about what the end of Moore’s Law might look like should that day ever come, a bunch of us were kicking around what it might mean. …
Meta’s Velox Means Database Performance Is Not Subject To Interpretation was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Databases and datastores are by far the stickiest things in the datacenter. …
Bringing AWS-Style DPU Offload To The VMware Base was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The modern enterprise IT environment is a sprawling, widely distributed, multi-tentacled beast that encompasses not only the traditional datacenter but multiple public clouds, private clouds, colocation facilities, telecommunications sites, and the edge. …
VMware Wants To Erase The Lines Between Datacenter, Cloud, And Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Imagine, if you will, that Nvidia had launched its forthcoming “Grace” Arm server CPU three years ago instead of early next year. …
Details Emerge On Nvidia’s “Grace” Arm CPU was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It was absolutely inevitable that China would try to create its own GPU compute engines. …
China Launches The Inevitable Indigenous GPU was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.