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.
As we have pointed out before, large enterprises have to deal with a different kind of scale issue than the hyperscalers, and in many ways, the hyperscalers have it easier. …
The Opposite Of Snowflake: Analytics Without The Data Warehouse was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In the IT world, solving one gnarly problem can lead to greater complexities down the road. …
Building A Lakehouse Datastore Like Uber was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
There is no question that that the combination of Nvidia and Arm Holdings would have been a powerful one in the datacenter. …
The Future Is Still Wide Open For Arm In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
While a $1.25 billion hit to the Nvidia books after the company terminated its $40 billion deal to acquire chip designer Arm Holdings from Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group this week is a big deal, the fact that Nvidia and SoftBank were going to see a lot of regulatory scrutiny and IT market resistance is no surprise. …
What Nvidia Can’t Buy, It Can Still Get Through An Arm Partnership was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As AMD is getting closer to closing its $35 billion acquisition of FPGA maker Xilinx, it is natural to think about how well that business is doing and how it is competing against its main rival, Intel – specifically, the Programmable Solutions Group, formerly known as the free-standing Altera before the latter was acquired by Intel in June 2015 for $16.7 billion. …
Xilinx Benefits From Intel FPGA Shortages was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Poor utilization is not the single domain of on-prem datacenters. Despite packing instances full of users, the largest cloud providers have similar problems. …
Distributed AI Training SETI-Style on Idle Cloud was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
What company has the lowest IT spending budget in the world, but has also paradoxically spent more money than any company in history investing in creating a new, modern, cloud-native system that is capable of running just about any application at just about any necessary scale? …
Millions Pay AWS To Give Amazon An Insurmountable IT Advantage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Arm-based servers have had a somewhat checkered history that has seen many abortive attempts to challenge the X86 processor hegemony, but the firm appears bullish about its chances in the high performance computing (HPC) sector, where it believes its licensing model and the energy efficiency of its architecture give it an edge. …
Arm CPUs To Take A Bite Out Of The HPC Market was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.
The “Everest” family of hybrid compute engines made by Xilinx, which have lots of programmable logic surrounded by hardened transistor blocks and which are sold under the Versal brand, have been known for so long that we sometimes forget – or can’t believe – that Versal chips are not yet available as standalone products in the datacenter or within the Alveo line of PCI-Express cards from the chip maker. …
Xilinx Works From The Edge Towards Datacenters With Versal FPGA Hybrids was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In a relatively few short years, Kubernetes has become the de facto orchestration platform for managing software containers, besting a lineup that included such contenders as Docker Swarm and Mesosphere. …
As Kubernetes Matures, The Edge Needs Containment was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Only two quarters ago, AMD’s datacenter business – meaning sales of Epyc CPUs plus Instinct GPU accelerators – broke through $1 billion. …
AMD “Dimensions For Success” In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.