Few things sound more Intel than “StarLake” but in fact, AMD is at the heart of an announcement with Chinese hyperscale giant, Tencent. …
Tencent All In With Self-Styled AMD “Milan” Servers was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
When we analyzed the financial reports coming out of hyperconverged platform maker Nutanix thirteen weeks ago, we lamented the fact that while Nutanix defined a new market and is one of the leaders in that market, it has been unable to expand its market fast enough to become a profitable company even after being in the field for more than a decade. …
Should Nutanix And Citrix Systems Merge To Make A Better Platform? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The enterprise rush to embrace multicloud and hybrid cloud has not slowed over the past several years and, indeed, has only accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic as organizations rushed to leverage cloud services to adapt to their suddenly highly distributed IT environments, with most of their employees working remotely. …
Creating A Transit System For The Multicloud World was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
It is refreshing to find instances in the IT sector where competing groups with their own agendas work together for the common good and the improvement of systems everywhere. …
Finally, A Coherent Interconnect Strategy: CXL Absorbs Gen-Z was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Patience in a slow-growing market is tough, but supercomputing cloud startup, Rescale, is reaping rewards for its persistence. …
What Rescale’s $105M Funding Round Says About HPC Cloud was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
A key trend in the ever-changing IT world is bringing whatever is needed – processing, storage, analytics, networking – closer to where the data is. …
ScaleFlux Takes Computational Storage Up A Notch With Homegrown Chip, Software Tools was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
And actually, one could say it is also far more than it appears. …
China’s Exascale Quantum Simulation Not All It Appears was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Hold on a second. Nvidia’s sales of chips and systems to supercomputer centers is not as big as we might be thinking. …
AMD Is Beating Nvidia At Its 2017 Game, But The Game Has Moved On was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The world would be a simpler place for all processing engine makers if they just had to make one device to cover all use cases, thus maximizing volumes and minimizing per unit costs. …
Aiming At Hyperscalers And Edge, Nvidia Cuts Down To The A2 Accelerator was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
High performance computing hardware is really a software game, and the software we are referring to is at a very low level where deep expertise in libraries and solvers can make the difference between a capable device performing up to its specifications and, well, not so much. …
Xilinx Tunes Up FPGAs For HPC, Graph Analytics was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Paid Post Intel has been at the forefront of democratizing high performance computing (HPC) for the past three decades, and the HPC leader is taking its efforts up several more notches with the Aurora exascale HPC and AI supercomputer being designed and built by Intel and Hewlett Packard Enterprise for Argonne National Laboratory. …
Making Exascale Accessible To Everyone was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
All of the great technologists live in the future and then they bring it back to us with the help of countless engineers who derive the specifications from their vision and make ideas into reality and, ultimately, into money to repeat the process again. …
Nvidia CEO On Competition, Software, And The Omniverse was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Datacenters are notorious consumers of power but there is a revolution brewing. …
Carbon Negative Supercomputing is Closer than it Appears was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Per aspera, ad astra, an old Latin adage that means “through striving, to the stars,” is the root of the name for a hybrid HPC and AI supercomputer that the Grand Équipment National de Calcul Intensif (GENCI), working in conjunction with the Centre Informatique National de l’Enseignement Supérieur (CINES), one of three national HPC centers in France, will be building next year to bring a factor of 20X more compute power to bear on scientific applications. …
HPE Wins Another European HPC Center With Cray EX Plus AMD Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There are no greater bragging rights in supercomputing than those that come with top ten listing on the bi-annual list of the world’s most powerful systems—the Top 500. …
Why Did China Keep Its Exascale Supercomputers Quiet? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Let’s just cut right to the chase scene. The latest Top500 ranking of supercomputers, announced today at the SC21 supercomputing conference being held in St Louis, needed the excitement of an actual 1 exaflops sustained performance machine running the High Performance Linpack benchmark at 64-bit precision. …
Top500 Supercomputers: Hungry For The Exascale Feast was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sometimes, you do put new wine in old bottles. This is what it looks like Meta – well, really its Facebook social network group – is doing as it adds a microserver node based on a custom AMD “Milan” Epyc 7003 processor to its datacenter infrastructure. …
AMD Gets Inside Facebook’s Latest – And Most Powerful – Microserver was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you want to build the world’s largest social network, with 2.9 billion users, and the massive PHP stack that makes it into an application, you need a lot of infrastructure and you need it to arrive predictably. …
Getting Meta: Abstracting And Multisourcing The Network Like An FBOSS was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
While Hungarian banks with collective names like OTP Group might not have household recognition here in the U.S., …
European Bank Sees Path to ‘Fastest AI Supercomputer’ was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
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You won’t be surprised that AWS serves up some of the most powerful HPC products and services on the planet. …
Want To Get Your Hands On AWS’ Latest HPC Services? Here’s How was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.