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.
It is hard to say how many Xeon and Xeon SP CPU sales have been obliterated by Nvidia GPUs, but the number is a big one. …
Intel Hopes To Accelerate Datacenter And Edge With A Slew Of Chips was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
AI is arguably the most important kind of HPC in the world right now in terms of providing immediate results for immediate problems, and particularly for enterprises with lots of data and a desire to make money in a new economy that does not fit models and forecasts before the coronavirus pandemic. …
Making AI Run At Any Scale But Not At All Costs was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Sponsored Feature There are tens of millions of lines of code in thousands of software programs, on a typical server in the datacenter. …
Why Memory Enclaves Are The Foundation Of Confidential Computing was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
How expensive and difficult does hyperscale-class AI training have to be for a maker of self-driving electric cars to take a side excursion to spend how many hundreds of millions of dollars to go off and create its own AI supercomputer from scratch? …
Inside Tesla’s Innovative And Homegrown “Dojo” AI Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When we last focused on Untether AI in 2021, the AI inferencing hardware startup had just secured $125 million in funding, which came a year after the company officially launched with its first-generation runAI200 devices and its unique at-memory inferencing approach. …
Untether AI Pulls the Curtain Rope For Its Next-Gen Inferencing System was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
People have been talking about CXL memory expansion for so long that it seems that it should be here already, but with the dearth of CPUs that can support PCI-Express 5.0 peripherals we have to be patient a little bit longer. …
Samsung Shows Off CXL Server Memory Expander was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
This week marked this first time since 2012 that Pat Gelsinger has spoken at the annual Hot Chips conference. …
Gelsinger Sees Intel’s Foundry As The Future Of Chip Making was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The Hot Chips 34 conference that is normally held at Stanford University is in full swing this week, and thanks to the coronavirus pandemic is being held entirely online. …
The Expanding CXL Memory Hierarchy Is Inevitable – And Good Enough was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There are times when Cisco Systems, which has a strong presence in datacenter switching, routing, and serving as well as a representative showing in storage and software, is a bellwether for IT market spending and transitions going on in the IT space. …
The Supply Chain Boa Constrictor Still Tight Around Cisco was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We have been talking about silicon photonics so long that we are, probably like many of you, frustrated that it already is not ubiquitous. …
Nvidia Shows What Optically Linked GPU Systems Might Look Like was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If there is anything that hyperscalers and cloud builders value more than anything else, it is regularity and predictability. …
Like A Drumbeat, Broadcom Doubles Ethernet Bandwidth With “Tomahawk 5” was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As more enterprises embrace hybrid and multicloud strategies and begin to extend their IT reach out to the edge, scale becomes an issue. …
Managing Infrastructure At Cloud Scale Without The Hyperscaler Propellerheads was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
In modern system architecture, there is a lot of shifting pieces of systems software (particularly in the control plane) and often their workloads around between pieces of silicon to get better bang for the buck, to improve the overall security of the system, or both. …
HPE Slingshot Makes The GPUs Do Control Plane Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.