Exascale-class energy efficiency cannot be defined by a simple number. Although Green500 energy efficiency HPC rankings provide a one-shot view into performance/efficiency, the complex interplay between large system operating systems, real-world applications, and the various tuning capabilities is worth digging into. …
HPC Efficiency Gurus Grapple with AMD’s RAPL was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
As everybody in the world now knows, there are downsides to just-in-time manufacturing during a global pandemic. …
Despite Supply Chain Woes, Arista Networks Does Record Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Scientists have unlocked many atomic secrets through physics research that studies particle interactions such as quarks, gluons, protons, and neutrons within the nucleus of an atom. …
Aurora Exascale System To Advance Dark Matter Research was written by Linda Barney at The Next Platform.
Cash used to be king, and now market capitalization is. That’s one of the reasons that the biggest players in the semiconductor arena are snapping up competitors, startups, and suppliers in adjacent chip markets at an increasing pace and with very large bags of “money.” …
Marvell Adds Hyperscale Ethernet With Innovium Acquisition was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Machine learning inference models have been running on X86 server processors from the very beginning of the latest – and by far the most successful – AI revolution, and the techies that know both hardware and software down to the minutest detail at the hyperscalers, cloud builders, and semiconductor manufacturers have been able to tune the software, jack the hardware, and retune for more than a decade. …
Ampere Computing Buys An AI Inference Performance Leap was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Software – and the data it produces – is the engine that is driving IT these days. …
Kubernetes Expands From Containers To Infrastructure Management was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
What bit of technology got us through the pandemic, was available for scaling up at just the right time to keep a pretty sizeable chunk of our economy working, redefined education on a moment’s notice, and now is redefining for the world the entire notion of work? …
Thought Experiment: How Did Zoom’s Infrastructure Keep Us Connected? was written by Mark Funk at The Next Platform.
We read a lot of market data here at The Next Platform, and we do our share of prognosticating and do even more riffing off the prognostications of others. …
Spending On Cloud Outposts Is Climbing The Hockey Stick was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE), the agency with the most sway in how the largest supercomputers are designed and built, has been looking beyond CMOS since well before exascale systems were on the horizon. …
U.S. DoE Pumps Another $73M into Quantum Future was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED Sometimes, bad things turn into excellent opportunities that can utterly transform markets. …
AMD 3rd Gen Epyc CPUs Put Intel Xeon SPs On Ice In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Steve Fingerhut looks to the GPU when explaining what his company, Pliops, is working to achieve. …
Stepping On The Gas For Flash Performance was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
This is how a competitive chip market is supposed to look, and this is how a competitive chip maker recovers from faults, competes against a seemingly unassailable foe, and then rides up the revenue and income curves to be able to invest in the future and profit from the present. …
AMD Is Finally Trusted In The Datacenter Again was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sponsored We all know AI and machine learning rely on vast amounts of data, just as we all know the Internet is largely cat videos and other user-generated content no one ever looks at. …
When It Comes To AI, Flash Is Getting Smaller And Bigger was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is clear computing is in for a revolution if a company can have unicorn status with its main product still a few years away. …
With $3.1B Valuation, What’s Ahead for PsiQuantum? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
For decades, Intel leaned heavily on its manufacturing prowess as a key advantage over its various competitors like AMD, which had its own chip foundry that it spun off in 2009 and which became Globalfoundries. …
Intel Sees Path Back To Chip Process Performance Leadership was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Microsoft is intent on bending the supercomputing set its direction. Instead of just focusing on competing with other public clouds, they’re aiming directly at on-prem HPC, showing comparable or better performance to existing top 10 supercomputers, for example. …
Microsoft Takes Sharper Aim at On-Prem HPC was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Intel’s Data Center Group has just turned in the third best revenue quarter in its history, just behind the two thirteen-week periods that started off 2020, which was before the coronavirus pandemic had hit and just after it hit and the full effects were not seen as yet. …
It’s All Uphill From Here For Intel’s Datacenter Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED If buoyant market figures are anything to go by, most enterprises already have a good grasp of the benefits of adopting hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). …
Want to make your storage sing? Then make sure it’s built for composability was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Just a decade ago, the enterprise IT push was to make Hadoop the platform for storage and analytics. …
Getting Hadoop to Jump Through AI/ML Hoops was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Exascale systems are expensive but for labs retrofitting existing facilities for novel cooling, the compute, storage, network, and software are only the beginning of high costs. …
Facilities Investments Loom Large for Exascale Sites was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.