If you don’t measure something, you can’t manage it. And if you don’t set ambitious goals, then you can’t attain them. …
AMD Draws 30X Efficiency Increase Line In The Datacenter Silicon was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The cloud era started off with the belief that, eventually, enterprises would migrate all of their workloads to the public cloud — drawn by the promises of greater flexibility and agility, cost reductions, manageable OPEX payment models, and the ability to shift responsibility for management of IT environments to the cloud providers themselves. …
Pure Storage Breaks into Storage-as-Code, Data Services was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Not every workload can be chunked up and spread across a relatively loosely coupled cluster of cheap X86 server nodes. …
HPE Superdome Flex: The Other Big Iron In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sponsored When it comes to compute engines and network interconnects for supercomputers, there are lots of different choices available, but ultimately the nature of the applications – and how they evolve over time – will drive the technology choices that organizations make. …
JAMSTEC Goes Hybrid On Many Vectors With Earth Simulator 4 Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If they are doing their jobs right, the high performance computing centers around the world in academic and government institutions are supposed to be on the cutting edge of any new technology that boosts the performance of simulation, modeling, analytics, and artificial intelligence. …
NSF Puts $10 Million Into Composable Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As we head toward the annual Supercomputing Conference season we wanted to take a moment for a level-set on exascale. …
A Status Check on Global Exascale Ambitions was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Air is an absolutely terrible medium with which to move or remove heat from a system, but it sure is a lot easier and cheaper (well, at least in terms of the cost of goods sold) than adding some sort of liquid cooling to a system. …
Liquid-Cooled Systems Are Inevitable, But Not Necessarily Profitable was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The European Processor Initiative (EPI) has pinned its hopes on RISC-V as the path to European semiconductor independence. …
Europe Inches Closer to Native RISC-V Reality was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Starting way back in the late 1980s, when Sun Microsystems was on the rise in the datacenter and Hewlett Packard was its main rival in Unix-based systems, market forces compelled IBM to finally and forcefully field its own open systems machines to combat Sun, HP, and others behind the Unix movement. …
Big Iron Will Always Drive Big Spending was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Seismic processing cloud infrastructure provider, DUG, has enough combined compute power to grace the leading ten systems on the Top 500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, with around 30 petaflops for seismic processing, full waveform inversion, petrophysics, and other HPC applications in oil and gas via many of its own software packages. …
Mixed Results With A64X Port for Seismic HPC was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The last several years have been challenging for the oil and gas industry on nearly all fronts. …
Despite Disruptions, Oil and Gas HPC Market Steadfast was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
While we are big fans of laissez faire capitalism like that of the United States and sometimes Europe — right up to the point where monopolies naturally form and therefore competition essentially stops, and thus monopolists need to be regulated in some fashion to promote the common good as well as their own profits — we also see the benefits that accrue from a command economy like that which China has built over the past four decades. …
Where China’s Long Road To Datacenter Compute Independence Leads was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There is a growing number of vendors big and small going hard to the hoop to make processors for artificial intelligence workloads. …
RISC-V Upstart Targets ML Inference Performance, Power Efficiency was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
There was a bit of a kerfuffle this week when it looked like AMD was changing its position a little bit on whether or not it would get back into designing and selling server chips based on the Arm architecture. …
Will AMD Get Back Into Arm Server Chips? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In the longest of runs, say within the next five to ten years, in the large datacenters of the world, the server chassis as we know it will no longer exist. …
The Tipping Point For PCI-Express Fabrics was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
One of the key strategic moves that AMD made when it architected its comeback in the datacenter was to beef up the compute, I/O, and memory on a single server socket while at the same time making that socket out of chiplets that were significantly cheaper to manufacture and integrate than a monolithic chip was to put into the same socket. …
Is The Shift To Single Socket Servers Starting? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
While the minimalist server processor and the microserver concept that was based upon it did not take over the datacenters of the world, there are still some workloads that can fit in modestly powered single socket CPUs just fine. …
The Cheapest Compute In The Intel Xeon Lineup was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
These are still early days for quantum computing, far too soon to talk about domain-specific quantum systems. …
Why Amazon Might Become the Largest Quantum Consumer was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Sponsored If you have a hundred or a thousand machines that you want to work in concert to run a simulation or a model or a machine learning training workload that cannot physically be done by any one single machine, you build a distributed systems cluster and there are all kinds of known tools to manage the underlying server nodes, to create the overarching computing environment, and to then carve it up into pieces to push work through it. …
The Edge Is Just A Massive, Geographically Distributed Cluster was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
While we are big fans of distributed computing systems here at The Next Platform, we never forget our heritage in big iron. …
This Is What The Most Powerful Server In The World Looks Like was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.