It is perplexing to us that the world’s largest distributor of client and server operating systems and also the creator of the Linux-based, open source SONiC network operating system – that would be Microsoft with its Windows and Windows Server franchises – did not see the benefit or the need to commercialize SONiC and lead the open networking revolution. …
After Long Last, A Commercial-Grade SONiC Network Operating System was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The datacenter is becoming hyperdistributed and incorporating some multiple of capacity – 2X, 3X, 4X, or maybe 10X – outside of the traditional datacenter walls because applications and storage live increasingly at the edge. …
The Edge Is The New Frontier For IT was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
It seems like we have been talking about Google’s TPUv4 machine learning accelerators for a long time, and that is because we have been. …
Deep Dive On Google’s Exascale TPUv4 AI Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Being in the cloud business is difficult and expensive – even for a rich company like Google. …
Number Three Has To Work Very Hard In The Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Whenever a process shrink is available to chip designers, there are several different levers they can pull to make a more powerful compute engine. …
Cores, Clocks, And Caches Cranked With Latest NEC Vector Engines was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Two and a half years into the global coronavirus pandemic we all have upgraded our home IT infrastructure. …
Datacenter Will Be AMD’s Largest – And Most Profitable – Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Predicting the future is hard, even with supercomputers. And maybe specifically when you are talking about predicting the future of supercomputers. …
The Art Of System Design As HPC And AI Applications Diverge was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If the semiconductor business teaches us anything, it is that volumes matter more than architecture. …
Different GPU Horses For Different Datacenter Courses was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The old AMD – the one before Lisa Su took over – was often brilliant with its instruction set architecture and CPU designs, but sometimes perplexingly careless with its design choices and chip roadmaps. …
The Steady Hand Guiding AMD’s “Prudently Expanding” Datacenter Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There is a very interesting technical side to IT infrastructure, which we are obviously very keen on exploring here at The Next Platform. …
Server And Storage Spending Moves The Sticks Out Through 2026 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In emerging computing fields like quantum computing and neuromorphic computing, hardware usually grabs the lion’s share of attention. …
Software, Not Hardware, Will Drive Quantum and Neuromorphic Computing was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
After nearly six decades of getting smaller, faster, cooler, and cheaper, transistors are getting more and more expensive with each generation, and one could argue that this, more than any other factor, is going to drive system architecture choices for the foreseeable future. …
Where Amdahl’s Law And Gustafson’s Law Hit the Moore’s Law Wall was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Performance per watt is garnering increasing attention these days with efficiency and sustainability less of a PR point of pride and far more of a TCO concern. …
SPEC Gets Serious About Datacenter Energy Metrics was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Intel chief executive officer Pat Gelsinger came into this week’s Intel Innovation 2022 conference less than two years into his plans to reshape the giant chip maker to fit into an IT world that is rapidly becoming more open, more cooperative, and more software-driven. …
Gelsinger Is Still Trying To Build The Next Intel was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Back in 2015, when Intel was flush with cash thanks to a near-monopoly from X86 datacenter compute, it shelled out an incredible $16.7 billion to acquire FPGA maker Altera because a few hyperscalers and cloud builders were monkeying around with offloading whole chunks of CPU compute to FPGAs to create SmartNICs. …
Intel To Broaden FPGA Lineup And Make Them At Home was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It has been nearly four decades since the Chinese Academy of Sciences handed Liu Chuanzhi and Danny Lui $25,000 to help found Legend, originally a maker of TV sets that, in the wake of the success of the IBM PC and the Apple II computer, decided maybe becoming a maker of PCs was a better idea. …
Lenovo Plays The Long Game, Not The Wrong Game, In Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia has introduced the latest in its long-standing lineup of successive supercomputers with Shaheen III. …
KAUST Goes For Nvidia CPU-GPU, AMD CPU Combo In Shaheen-III Supercomputer was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Beijing-based hyperscale giant, ByteDance, owners of TikTok among other popular applications, have found that general purpose, open source recommendation engines fall far short of what is required for on-point real-time suggestions. …
China’s ByteDance Intros Different Approach to Recommendation at Scale was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
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.