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.
Enterprises and tech vendors alike for the past few years have been talking about the growing importance of the edge in the increasingly distributed IT environment. …
Lenovo Bundles VMware Stack At The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The system world would have been a simpler place if InfiniBand had fulfilled its original promise as a universal fabric interconnect for linking all manner of devices together within a system and across systems. …
The CXL Roadmap Opens Up The Memory Hierarchy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Dave Brown remembers when Amazon executives would pop into their small office in Cape Town, populated by the entire EC2 team of fourteen, and tell them they would be working for a billion-dollar business one day. …
AWS EC2 Pioneer on Early Days, Next Wave was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
“Ingest it all, keep everything, find that needle in the haystack,” they exclaimed. …
Data Reduction is the Next IT Frontier was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Enterprises large and small that depend on Hewlett Packard Enterprise to build their systems and certify them for an absolutely enormous amount of software and support them during a long life in the field should send Thank You notes to the venerable systems maker. …
The Venerable Tenacity Of System Supplier HPE was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Ever since Nutanix, the first virtualized server-storage smashup, dropped out of stealth in 2011, we have been watching with great interest to see if this hyperconverged infrastructure would take the world by storm. …
If Hyperconverged Storage Is So Good, Why Is It Not Pervasive And Profitable? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The field is littered with the remnants of Arm and RISC-V server startups. …
Ventana Sees Window for Robust RISC-V Server Business was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
A number of chip companies — importantly Intel and IBM, but also the Arm collective and AMD — have come out recently with new CPU designs that feature native Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its related machine learning (ML). …
Doing The Math On CPU-Native AI Inference was written by Mark Funk at The Next Platform.
Five years ago, Western Digital, known for its hard disk drive (HDD) storage technologies, doled out $19 billion in cash and stock for SanDisk and its solid state drive (SDD) product portfolio, giving it deep expertise in the non-volatile flash memory space at a time when enterprises were looking for expanded storage options in the wake of the rise of the cloud and the edge. …
Hybrid Disk/Flash Storage Isn’t New, But It Is Getting Better was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Perhaps the National Security Agency (NSA) in the U.S. is over procuring and maintaining some of its on-prem supercomputers. …
NSA Makes Another Cloud Jump with $2 Billion HPE Deal was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.