Exascale supercomputing is just as important to Europe as it is to the United States and China, but each of these geopolitical regions on Earth has its own way of developing architectures, funding their development and production, and figuring out where the best HPC centers are to host such machines to maximize their effectiveness. …
Who Will Build Europe’s First Exascale Supercomputer – And With What, And Why? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
After its acquisitions of ATI in 2006 and the maturation of its discrete GPUs with the Instinct line from the past few years and the acquisitions of Xilinx and Pensando here in 2022, AMD is not just a second source of X86 processors. …
Chip Roadmaps Unfold, Crisscrossing And Interconnecting, At AMD was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Like others in the datacenter infrastructure space, Cisco Systems has had a front-row seat to the rapid changes in enterprise tech, from the accelerating adoption of the multicloud model to the increasing decentralization of the IT environment, rippling out to the network edge. …
Controlling The Network When You Don’t Own All Of It was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Marvell Technology is the latest chipmaker to join the emerging Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCI-Express) consortium, which is working toward an open interconnect standard for chiplet architectures. …
Marvell Throws Hat Into Intel’s Universal Chiplet Interconnect Ring was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.
IT organizations, especially the key hyperscalers and cloud builders, don’t buy point products, they buy roadmaps. …
AMD Roadmaps Lead To Mountains Of Money was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
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Futurist Keynote: Professor Sue Black, June 14 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
A European team of university students has cobbled together the first RISC-V supercomputer capable of showing balanced power consumption and performance. …
Strong Showing for First Experimental RISC-V Supercomputer was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
When you get to the place where Intel is at in datacenter compute, you cannot dictate terms to customers. …
The Increasingly Graphic Nature Of Intel Datacenter Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In a cloud-based, highly distributed, and data-centric world, flexibility in what a piece of hardware and its systems software can do, where it can run, and how it can be configured is a critical differentiator for picky enterprises. …
Putting More Flex Into Flash Storage Arrays was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
When you want to build a software business in the 21st century successfully, you have to borrow some ideas from the 20th century. …
Can MongoDB Build A Humongous, And Profitable, Database Business? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
One of the most pressing challenges in deploying deep learning at scale, especially for social media giant, Meta, is making full use of hardware for inference as well as training. …
Poor Hardware Utilization Puts Squeeze on AI Compression was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
If Jim Keller makes a move, it’s best to watch closely. …
Tenstorrent Eyes Datacenter Deals With Another Star Hire From AMD was written by Dylan Martin at The Next Platform.
It is the nature of the many businesses that Hewlett Packard Enterprise remains in, after spinning off printers, PCs, services, and software, that it still has many ups and downs and there is always one business that can pull down the others. …
The Long Term Profitability Of HPE Depends On GreenLake was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Just ahead of the revelations about the feeds and speeds of the “Frontier” supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory concurrent with the International Supercomputing conference in Hamburg, Germany and the concurrent publishing of the summer Top500 rankings of supercomputers, we had a chat with Jeff Nichols, who has steered the creation of successive generations of supercomputers at Oak Ridge. …
The Final Frontier: Talking Exascale With Oak Ridge’s Jeff Nichols was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There is no denying that GPUs have incredible potential to accelerate workloads of all kinds, but developing applications that can scale across two, four, or even more GPUs continues to be a prohibitively expensive proposition. …
Fractional GPUs Empower New Wave Of Accelerated Software Development was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.
Like other kinds of computing, if you put garbage data into a machine learning training run and then pour new data through it, what comes out as the answer is puréed garbage. …
Neural Networks Are Only As Good As The Data They Are Fed was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
For the last few years, Graphcore has primarily been focused on slinging its IPU chips for training and inference systems of varying sizes, but that is changing now as the six-year-old British chip designer is joining the conversation about the convergence of AI and high-performance computing. …
Graphcore Thinks It Can Get An AI Piece Of The HPC Exascale Pie was written by Dylan Martin at The Next Platform.
Intel doesn’t want to just create a rival to the CUDA programming model and library stack so it can better compete against Nvidia in the GPU compute market. …
To Cure Iron Anemia With SYCL, Intel Buys Codeplay was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There are many interpretations of the word venado, which means deer or stag in Spanish, and this week it gets another one: A supercomputer based on future Nvidia CPU and GPU compute engines, and quite possibly if Los Alamos National Laboratory can convince Hewlett Packard Enterprise to support InfiniBand interconnects in its capability class “Shasta” Cray EX machines, Nvidia’s interconnect as well. …
Opening Up The Future “Venado” Grace-Hopper Supercomputer At Los Alamos was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Any time you build anything with more than 60 million parts, it is going to be a headache. …
Frontier: Step By Step, Over Decades, To Exascale was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.