The system world would have been a simpler place if InfiniBand had fulfilled its original promise as a universal fabric interconnect for linking all manner of devices together within a system and across systems. …
The CXL Roadmap Opens Up The Memory Hierarchy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Dave Brown remembers when Amazon executives would pop into their small office in Cape Town, populated by the entire EC2 team of fourteen, and tell them they would be working for a billion-dollar business one day. …
AWS EC2 Pioneer on Early Days, Next Wave was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
“Ingest it all, keep everything, find that needle in the haystack,” they exclaimed. …
Data Reduction is the Next IT Frontier was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Enterprises large and small that depend on Hewlett Packard Enterprise to build their systems and certify them for an absolutely enormous amount of software and support them during a long life in the field should send Thank You notes to the venerable systems maker. …
The Venerable Tenacity Of System Supplier HPE was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Ever since Nutanix, the first virtualized server-storage smashup, dropped out of stealth in 2011, we have been watching with great interest to see if this hyperconverged infrastructure would take the world by storm. …
If Hyperconverged Storage Is So Good, Why Is It Not Pervasive And Profitable? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The field is littered with the remnants of Arm and RISC-V server startups. …
Ventana Sees Window for Robust RISC-V Server Business was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
A number of chip companies — importantly Intel and IBM, but also the Arm collective and AMD — have come out recently with new CPU designs that feature native Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its related machine learning (ML). …
Doing The Math On CPU-Native AI Inference was written by Mark Funk at The Next Platform.
Five years ago, Western Digital, known for its hard disk drive (HDD) storage technologies, doled out $19 billion in cash and stock for SanDisk and its solid state drive (SDD) product portfolio, giving it deep expertise in the non-volatile flash memory space at a time when enterprises were looking for expanded storage options in the wake of the rise of the cloud and the edge. …
Hybrid Disk/Flash Storage Isn’t New, But It Is Getting Better was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Perhaps the National Security Agency (NSA) in the U.S. is over procuring and maintaining some of its on-prem supercomputers. …
NSA Makes Another Cloud Jump with $2 Billion HPE Deal was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
UPDATE: One of the reasons why Intel spent $16.7 billion to acquire FPGA maker Altera six years ago was because it was convinced that its onload model — where big parts of the storage and networking stack were running on CPUs — was going to go out of favor and that companies would want to offload this work to network interface cards with lots of their own much cheaper and much more energy efficient processing. …
Intel’s Best DPU Will Be Commercially Available — Someday was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Expect to hear increasing buzz around graph neural network use cases among hyperscalers in the coming year. …
The Graph Neural Network Behind Your ETA was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Many of the largest retailers and social networks are seeing a narrowing path for scaling of AI training capabilities. …
Amazon AI Weighs Optimization Options for GNNs was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Artificial intelligence is taking center stage in the IT industry, fueled by the massive growth in the data being generated and the increasing need in HPC and mainstream enterprises for capabilities ranging from analytics and automation. …
DOE AI Expert Says New HPC Architecture Is Needed was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
It is not news that China wants a rich, native, diverse semiconductor ecosystem to feed its largest consumers of compute. …
The AI Training Chip Tencent Has an Eye On was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
When money is really no object and the budget negotiations involve taking a small slice of your personal net worth of $7.5 billion out of one pocket and putting it into another, and you have the technical chops to understand the complexities of molecular dynamics and have a personal mission to cure disease, then you can build any damned supercomputer you want. …
The Huge Payoff Of Extreme Co-Design In Molecular Dynamics was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Facebook has to keep digging into ever-lower levels of its architecture to efficiently make use of endlessly growing training data. …
ML Training Growing Pains at Facebook was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
If not for delays, the long-awaited Aurora supercomputer at Argonne National Lab would likely just be coming online. …
Argonne Deploying GPU-Dense Testbed Supercomputer was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
It is pretty obvious to everyone who watches the IT market that Intel needs an architectural win that leads to a product win in datacenter compute. …
Intel’s “Ponte Vecchio” GPU Better Not Be A Bridge Too Far was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
What is that famous maxim in computer science about something that doubles on a regular cadence? …
Cerebras Shifts Architecture to Meet Massive AI/ML Models was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Everyone knows that machine learning inference is going to be a big deal for commercial applications in the years ahead, but no one is precisely sure how much inference is going to be needed. …
IBM Bets Big On Native Inference With Big Iron was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.