For neural networks to expand into more areas in traditional supercomputing, especially in areas where image data is key, high image fidelity and accuracy are critical. …
AI Systems Startup Scales Argonne’s Cosmic Cleanup was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The “Milan” Epyc 7003 processors, the third generation of AMD’s revitalized server CPUs, is now in the field, and we await the entry of the “Ice Lake” Xeon SPs from Intel for the next jousting match in the datacenter to begin. …
Deep Dive Into AMD’s “Milan” Epyc 7003 Architecture was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It seems like a question a child would ask: “Why are things the way they are?” …
The World Has Changed – Why Haven’t Database Designs? was written by Avishai Ish-Shalom at The Next Platform.
Newly anointed Intel chief executive officer Pat Gelsinger held the coming out party for his strategy to get the world’s largest chip manufacturer and designer back on track, called “Intel Unleashed: Engineering The Future,” on Tuesday after the market closed. …
Intel Decides To Engineer Its Fab-Filled Future After All was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
While securing the high-end particle physics market segment is not likely to push any of the AI/ML ASICS into competition with GPUs anytime soon, the chipmakers that can prove their value on some of the most demanding, real-time AI workloads can capture some serious mindshare. …
Graphcore Shows GAN Gains for CERN was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The server market is a multi-cylinder engine, with eight major hyperscalers and cloud builders all doing their thing almost independently of each other and of the economic conditions at large and the rest of the market being more subject to the waxing and waning of the economic tides. …
Server Sales Boom In China, Bleed Air Elsewhere was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For two decades now, Google has demonstrated perhaps more than any other company that the datacenter is the new computer, what the search engine giant called a “warehouse-scale machine” way back in 2009 with a paper written by Urs Hölzle, who was and still is senior vice president for Technical Infrastructure at Google, and Luiz André Barroso, who is vice president of engineering for the core products at Google and who was a researcher at Digital Equipment and Compaq before that. …
Google Says The SOC Is The New Motherboard was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
After toiling away in relative obscurity for over a decade, open source Julia is right on time for the big enterprise AI/ML code modernization party.
Why Julia is Turning Heads in 2021 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
When chip makers launch the latest additions of their datacenter processors, server OEMs have historically immediately or soon after followed with a rollout of the latest new or enhanced systems based on those offerings. …
Designing Servers In Rapidly Changing Times was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Like many system architects the world over, we had high hopes for the 3D XPoint variant of phase change memory (PCM) when it launched with much fanfare back in July 2015 after being developed jointly by Intel and Micron Technology for many, many years. …
3D XPoint Memory At The Crossroads was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
One of the main tenets of the hyperscalers and cloud builders is that they buy what they can and they only build what they must. …
Can Graviton Win A Three-Way Compute Race At AWS? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Every chipmaker has an emerging silicon photonics story but as happens only rarely, it could be a small startup that will push them to productize faster. …
Lightmatter Normalizing Silicon Photonics for AI was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
It has been a long time – more than 15 years – since AMD has been in a position to pressure larger rival Intel in supplying processors to server OEMs and ODMs for the datacenter. …
AMD’s Top Brass Take Another Swing At Intel With Milan Epycs was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Managing infrastructure at Google is a lot more than just putting stuff into containers and letting Borg push it around. …
Keeping Infrastructure And Applications Humming Along Like Google was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
With every passing year, as AMD first talked about its plans to re-enter the server processor arena and give Intel some real, much needed, and very direct competition and then delivered again and again on its processor roadmap, it has gotten easier and easier to justify spending at least some of the server CPU budget with Intel’s archrival in the X86 computing arena. …
The Third Time Charm Of AMD’s Milan Epyc Processors was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Cybersecurity has never been easy. As the amount of business being done on the internet has grown, enterprises, smaller businesses, HPC institutions and other organizations have had to develop and embrace technologies designed to protect mission-critical data and applications from an increasingly sophisticated underworld of hackers, nation-states and other cyber-criminals. …
Taking On DARPA’s FHE Security Challenge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Having to install a new kind of systems software stack and create applications is hard enough. …
Tuning Up Nvidia’s AI Stack To Run On Virtual Infrastructure was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
There is nothing wrong with buying a compute, storage, or networking appliance where the ASICs and software both come from the same supplier. …
Cisco Fights The Merchant Network Chip Makers On Their Own Turf was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The concepts underpinning vector databases are decades old, but it is only relatively recently that these are the underlying “secret weapon” of the largest webscale companies that provide services like search and near real-time recommendations. …
It’s Time to Start Paying Attention to Vector Databases was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
We took a look recently at the compute engines at the heart of the future – and as yet unnanmed – Sunway exascale system that will be installed at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, China. …
The Nitty Gritty Of The Sunway Exascale System Network And Storage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.