In March 2020, when Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced the exascale “El Capitan” supercomputer contract had been awarded to system builder Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which was also kicking in its “Rosetta” Slingshot 11 interconnect and which was tapping future CPU and GPU compute engines from AMD, the HPC center was very clear that it would be using off-the-shelf, commodity parts from AMD, not custom compute engines. …
Lawrence Livermore’s “El Capitan” To Take AMD’s Instinct APU Mainstream was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Decades of cloud collaborations and optimizations have brought solid performance and cost efficiencies to cloud. …
For HPC Cloud, The Underlying Hardware Will Always Matter was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
It is relatively easy to get a group of people that creates a new database management system or new data store. …
Bridging The Gap Between Open Source Database And Database Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A decade ago, Fangjin “FJ” Yang was a software architect at startup Metamarkets, a company that was building a user-facing analytics engine that a lot of developers simultaneously could go to, click on a UI, and very quickly get answers to their questions. …
Apache Druid Takes Its Place In The Pantheon Of Databases was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
We have been excited about the possibilities of adding tiers of memory to systems, particularly persistent memories that are less expensive than DRAM but offer similar-enough performance and functionality to be useful. …
Meta Platforms Hacks CXL Memory Tier Into Linux was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, which is steering the development and funding for pre-exascale and exascale supercomputing in the European Union, has had a busy week. …
Atos Wins MareNostrum 5 Deal At Barcelona Supercomputing Center was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
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.
SPONSORED POST Technology has changed the lives of countless people over the years, many of them women from underserved communities who have been helped through education and onto the career ladder by the improved methods of communication, collaboration, and information dissemination which IT innovation has consistently enabled. …
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.