Software maker VMware has always been about tight partnerships with other tech vendors. …
VMware Partners Its Way Deeper into Cloud, Edge, And AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
You would have to look far and wide to find a tougher business to be in than chip manufacturing, which is why the many dozens of server makers who used to make their own CPUs – often multiple types – no longer run their own foundries and, with the exception of IBM and now Amazon Web Services, no longer exist. …
Globalfoundries IPO Shows Just How Tough The Chip Making Business Is was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
With only one, perhaps two, percent share of the broader datacenter cooling market, immersion and direct liquid cooling are still fringe technologies. …
When Immersion Cooling is the Only Option was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Since launching GreenLake in 2018 and promising that all of its portfolio would be available as services by next year, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has been on a sprint to build up the capabilities of the platform. …
HPE Converts Analytics, Storage, Data Protection To GreenLake was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The fiscal year of the federal government in the United States ends on September 30, and whether we all knew it or not, the US Department of Energy had a revised goal of beginning the deployment of at least one exascale-class supercomputing system before fiscal 2021 ended and fiscal 2022 began on October 1. …
First Look At Oak Ridge’s “Frontier” Exascaler, Contrasted To Argonne’s “Aurora” was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
With over 200 million users streaming its video services, the backend CDN servers, storage, and networks at Netflix have to balance performance and efficiency carefully. …
Netflix Boosts Streaming While Reducing Socket Counts was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Intel is still placing bets on neuromorphic computing with its Loihi devices. …
A First Look at Intel’s Next-Level Neuromorphic Engine was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Sponsored Moving more bits across a copper wire or optical cable at a lower cost per bit shifted has been the dominant driver of datacenter networking since distributed systems were first developed more than three decades ago. …
InfiniBand Innovation Is About More Than Bandwidth And Latency was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you don’t measure something, you can’t manage it. And if you don’t set ambitious goals, then you can’t attain them. …
AMD Draws 30X Efficiency Increase Line In The Datacenter Silicon was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The cloud era started off with the belief that, eventually, enterprises would migrate all of their workloads to the public cloud — drawn by the promises of greater flexibility and agility, cost reductions, manageable OPEX payment models, and the ability to shift responsibility for management of IT environments to the cloud providers themselves. …
Pure Storage Breaks into Storage-as-Code, Data Services was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Not every workload can be chunked up and spread across a relatively loosely coupled cluster of cheap X86 server nodes. …
HPE Superdome Flex: The Other Big Iron In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sponsored When it comes to compute engines and network interconnects for supercomputers, there are lots of different choices available, but ultimately the nature of the applications – and how they evolve over time – will drive the technology choices that organizations make. …
JAMSTEC Goes Hybrid On Many Vectors With Earth Simulator 4 Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If they are doing their jobs right, the high performance computing centers around the world in academic and government institutions are supposed to be on the cutting edge of any new technology that boosts the performance of simulation, modeling, analytics, and artificial intelligence. …
NSF Puts $10 Million Into Composable Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As we head toward the annual Supercomputing Conference season we wanted to take a moment for a level-set on exascale. …
A Status Check on Global Exascale Ambitions was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Air is an absolutely terrible medium with which to move or remove heat from a system, but it sure is a lot easier and cheaper (well, at least in terms of the cost of goods sold) than adding some sort of liquid cooling to a system. …
Liquid-Cooled Systems Are Inevitable, But Not Necessarily Profitable was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The European Processor Initiative (EPI) has pinned its hopes on RISC-V as the path to European semiconductor independence. …
Europe Inches Closer to Native RISC-V Reality was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Starting way back in the late 1980s, when Sun Microsystems was on the rise in the datacenter and Hewlett Packard was its main rival in Unix-based systems, market forces compelled IBM to finally and forcefully field its own open systems machines to combat Sun, HP, and others behind the Unix movement. …
Big Iron Will Always Drive Big Spending was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Seismic processing cloud infrastructure provider, DUG, has enough combined compute power to grace the leading ten systems on the Top 500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, with around 30 petaflops for seismic processing, full waveform inversion, petrophysics, and other HPC applications in oil and gas via many of its own software packages. …
Mixed Results With A64X Port for Seismic HPC was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The last several years have been challenging for the oil and gas industry on nearly all fronts. …
Despite Disruptions, Oil and Gas HPC Market Steadfast was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
While we are big fans of laissez faire capitalism like that of the United States and sometimes Europe — right up to the point where monopolies naturally form and therefore competition essentially stops, and thus monopolists need to be regulated in some fashion to promote the common good as well as their own profits — we also see the benefits that accrue from a command economy like that which China has built over the past four decades. …
Where China’s Long Road To Datacenter Compute Independence Leads was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.