Historically, the largest organizations in the world – the Global 2000 plus the biggest national government and academic research institutions – have always had the most complex data processing needs. …
Cerebras Shows Off Scale Up AI Performance For Big Pharma And Big Oil was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When the hyperscalers, the major datacenter compute engine suppliers, and the three remaining foundries with advanced node manufacturing capabilities launch a standard together on Day One, this is an unusual, significant, and pleasant surprise. …
Industry Behemoths Back Intel’s Universal Chiplet Interconnect was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When it comes to application acceleration, having a deep understanding of the complex algorithms that underly most HPC and AI applications is perhaps the most important thing that can be brought to bear. …
Groq Buys Maxeler For Its HPC And AI Dataflow Expertise was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Renee James knows about processors and she knows about the cloud. …
Designing Chips With The Cloud And Edge In Mind was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
We are still chewing through some of the announcements that came out of Intel Investor Day and the ISSCC 2022 chip conference, and one of the things we want to circle back on is the “Falcon Shores” hybrid CPU-GPU that Intel is working on for future servers. …
Aurora In A Socket: What Intel’s “Falcon Shores” XPU Might Do was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
What is the most important product that comes out of the semiconductor industry? …
SysMoore: The Next 10 Years, The Next 1,000X In Performance was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There are so many barriers to capacity increases in high performance computing systems that it would take a long time to rattle them off. …
HPE Taps Ayar Labs To Add Silicon Photonics To Slingshot Interconnect was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The metaverse is still a thing, an experience, a service in the making, an envisioned 3D world fueled in large part by artificial intelligence and immersive graphics that will, many hope, be a place where consumers can play games and interact with others and companies can do business in ways that can’t be done today. …
Decentralized Compute Is The Foundation Of The Metaverse was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The datacenter server has been the center of gravity for compute for decades. …
Xeon D Refresh: The Little Hyperscale Engine That Could was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When people think of supercomputers, they think of a couple of different performance vectors (pun intended), but usually the first thing they think of is the performance of a big, parallel machine as it runs one massive job scaling across tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of cores working in concert. …
NCAR Pits Azure Cloud Against Its Own Big Iron For Climate Models was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
While on-premises datacenters are strategic to large enterprises, and will be for the foreseeable future, hybrid clouds and the edge are also an increasingly important part of the IT platform portfolio. …
Storage Is Going Have To Deal With Clouds And Edges was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
While there is a lot of hype, there is no question that quantum computers are going to revolutionize computing. …
Building The Bridge To The Quantum Future With Hybrid Systems was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.
We were complaining a few weeks ago that Intel had not put out a server processor roadmap of any substance in a long time, and instead of just leaving it at that, we created our own Xeon SP roadmap based on rumors, speculation, hunches, and desires. …
Intel Unfolds Xeon Roadmap With More Cores, Denser Transistors was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Next year, with the launch of the “Grace” Arm server processors, Nvidia will have all of the compute and networking bases it cares about in the datacenter covered, and it will be selling its technology at a rapid pace. …
Can Nvidia Be The Biggest Chip Maker In The Datacenter? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There are not many companies left on Earth that can field an exascale-class supercomputer. …
Atos Defends Its Supercomputing Turf With New Exascale Iron was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Any company making any kind of box – a server, a switch, a storage array – has three battles they need to fight here in 2022, one of which they did not have to worry about very much before the coronavirus pandemic and which is of prime importance these days. …
Surfing On The Ethernet Bandwidth Waves, Avoiding The Rocks was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AMD has finished its acquisition of Xilinx, which ended up costing close to $49 billion instead of the original $35 billion projected when the deal was announced in October 2020 thanks to the rise of AMD’s shares over the past year and a half. …
What Will AMD Do With Programmable Logic And Other Xilinx IP? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Intel is looking to position itself as a leader in AI and HPC through a holistic approach that plays to the company’s strengths across a broad swath of the IT ecosystem. …
Intel Targets DAOS Object Storage At More Than HPC was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.
When this is all said and done, Intel will deserve some kind of award for keeping its 14 nanometer processes moving along enough as it gets its 10 nanometer and 7 nanometer processes knocked together to still, somehow, manage to retain dominant market share in the server space. …
The Next – And More Profitable – 10 Percent Of Server Share For AMD was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Managing an aging nuclear weapons stockpile requires a tremendous – and ever-increasing – amount of supercomputing performance, and the HPC system business the world over is focused on this as much as trying to crack the most difficult scientific, medical, and engineering problems. …
Sneak Peek At “Sapphire Rapids” Xeons In “Crossroads” Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.