With the AI chip startup hype cycle spinning down from its feverish pace in 2018, giving way to 2021 expectations for real-world deployments, it still difficult to see which company will steal what little share is left in the Nvidia/Intel/AMD dominated datacenter. …
Will Groq Re-Emerge to Steal AI Market Share? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
If you want to break into datacenter compute in a sustainable way, it takes the patience of a glacier. …
The Prospects For An Arm Server Insurrection was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Four years ago, Cloudian was a six-year-old startup in an object storage space that, while the technology had been around for more than a decade, was seeing a surge of interest from cloud providers desperate for a storage architecture that only could scale to meet the demands of their rapidly growing datacenters, the massive amounts of data that was being generated and the need to be able to more easily move it between core on-premises datacenters and multiple cloud environments – and in the coming years the edge. …
Object Storage Makes A Push Into HPC was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
What is the difference between a row of servers at one of the 80 availability zones in 25 geographic regions run by Amazon Web Services and a printing press at one of the four facilities run by the US Mint? …
The AWS Printing Press Keeps Spitting Out Money was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Machine learning techniques based on massive amounts of data and GPU accelerators to chew through it are now almost a decade old. …
Inspur Rises On The Wave of AI Servers In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Digitally prototyping complex designs, such as large physical structures, biological features, and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) requires supercomputers running sophisticated multiphysics solvers. …
The Cloud Lets Engineers Access Powerful Multiphysics Solvers was written by Ken Strandberg at The Next Platform.
What Intel calls “cloud digestion” as the cause of the massive pullback in spending in its Data Center Group is looking more and more like a case of “Epyc indigestion” for Intel, not for the hyperscalers and cloud builders. …
AMD Hits Intel Below The Belt In The Datacenter Wallet was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The cloud and the related edge already are rapidly influencing almost every aspect of IT, from the technology that is being adapted and created to how that technology is being consumed, as illustrated by the growing numbers of established hardware vendors – including Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell, and Cisco Systems – that now are offering more of their portfolio as services. …
OpenShifting The Hybrid Cloud Into High Gear was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Arm is hosting its annual Tech Day shindig, virtually (again) thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, and is providing a lot more insight into the future Neoverse core and processor designs that will be adopted and modified by those who have a hankering to take on the hegemony of the X86 processor – which now includes pretty solid CPUs from Intel and AMD – in the datacenter and at the edge. …
Arm Puts Some Muscle Into Future Neoverse Server CPU Designs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For the past couple of decades, IBM’s Spectrum Scale – formerly known as General Parallel File System –has had a solid standing as one of the two go-to file systems for HPC. …
IBM Views Enterprise Storage Through Hybrid Cloud Glasses was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
High Performance Computing is traditionally focused on solving the most complex problems in science, engineering, and business. …
High Performance Computing Will Power The Next Normal was written by Mark Papermaster at The Next Platform.
Any time a server maker comes into the global market and bypasses Cisco Systems, Lenovo, and IBM to become the third largest seller of machines in the world, you should pay attention. …
Talking Servers With Inspur And Intel was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
All good parties come to an end, and the one that Intel has enjoyed for an unbelievable dozen years, starting with the rollout of the “Nehalem” Xeon E5500 processors back in March 2009, is over. …
The Intel Datacenter Party Starts Feeling The Hangover was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Quantum simulators are a strange breed of systems for purposes that might seem a bit nebulous from the outset. …
Nvidia Entangled in Quantum Simulators was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
There has been talk and cajoling and rumor for years that GPU juggernaut Nvidia would jump into the Arm server CPU chip arena once again and actually deliver a product that has unique differentiation and a compelling value proposition, particularly for hybrid CPU-GPU compute complexes. …
Nvidia Enters The Arms Race With Homegrown “Grace” CPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We often focus on the largest high performance computing deployments but a bulk of real enterprise HPC workloads happen in far less sophisticated environments, albeit with applications that still the need scalability, performance, and efficiency the big centers can provide. …
Implementing Commercial HPC Still an Uphill Climb was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Dell took a look at the two weeks between the rollouts by AMD and Intel of their latest server processors and, after some debate, decided to unveil its entire portfolio of new and enhanced systems – featuring the new chips from both vendors – at the launch of AMD’s latest Epyc silicon rather than announce servers in line with the chip makers’ timing. …
For CPU Makers and OEMs Alike, It’s A Platform View was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) will be preparing to put nearly ten racks of Habana AI hardware on the floor, marking the first time we have seen the AI chip startup (acquired by Intel in 2019) in force at any major supercomputing site. …
Intel’s Habana Makes First Supercomputing Appearance was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
When it comes to neural network training, Python is the language of choice. …
Python Could Reset the AI Inference Playing Field was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Amazon Web Services, the juggernaut of cloud computing, may be forging its own path with Arm-based CPUs and associated DPUs thanks to its 2015 acquisition of Annapurna Labs for $350 million. …
Is AWS Making The Switch To Homegrown Network ASICs? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.