Stretching the trajectory of Moore’s Law takes quite a bit more than finding new ways to fit more transistors on future devices. …
Intel’s Component Keys for Pushing Moore’s Law was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The switching market has its ups and downs depending on the upgrade cycle for server processors and the nature of the economy at any given time, and despite the uncertainty in the economy, the Ethernet switching and routing markets keep humming along. …
Datacenter Networks Push Ethernet Switching To New Highs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Fannie Mae is one of the largest financial institutions in the world with $4.2 trillion in mortgage volume. …
Fannie Mae Moves More Mission-Critical Mortgage Work to AWS was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Since its inception in 2009 as a provider of all-flash systems, Pure Storage has carefully put together a portfolio that has many of the storage bases in the datacenter covered. …
Pure Storage Takes On Tier 1 Storage With FlashArray//XL was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
When you have a massively distributed computing job that can take months to run across thousands to hundreds of thousands of compute elements, one software hardware or software crash can mean losing an enormous amount of work. …
Memory Snapshots Bring Checkpointing Into The 21st Century was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It has taken well over a decade, but the momentum toward entirely cloud-based global capital markets is gaining force. …
Nasdaq’s Cloudy Outlook for Global Market Technologies was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
NICE EnginFrame lets you manage your HPC workloads, wherever they are…
If you’re running technical or scientific workloads on-prem, your HPC rig is probably your pride and joy. …
How Can Going Hybrid Break HPC Capacity Constraints? was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
The modern GPU compute engine is a microcosm of the high performance computing datacenter at large. …
Stacking Up AMD MI200 Versus Nvidia A100 Compute Engines was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Usually, innovation starts with the hyperscalers, HPC centers, and cloud builders of the world and spreads to the enterprise. …
Hyperscalers Start Taking Pure Storage Flash For A Spin was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Institutions supporting HPC applications are finding increased demand for heterogeneous infrastructures to support simulation and modeling, machine learning, high performance data analytics, collaborative computing and analytics, and data federation. …
HPC In The Cloud Enables Diverse Scientific Research was written by Ken Strandberg at The Next Platform.
While AWS is making it clear they will continue to innovate around GPUs for cloud-based machine learning, there was little doubt after today that their own Trainium devices are set to outdo what even the top-line Nvidia GPU instances have achieved. …
AWS Sizes Trainium for AI/ML Model Boom was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
It is always an exciting time when there is a new compute engine coming into the market, and interest is particularly keen with any new Arm server chip entry. …
AWS Goes Wide And Deep With Graviton3 Server Chip was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
At this point in supercomputing, it’s becoming an anomaly to see an upcoming double-digit petaflops system not using AMD for CPU and GPU but the National Renewable Energy Laboratory will be taking a more traditional route for the “Kestrel” machine. …
NREL Supercomputer Announce Hints at Future Nvidia GPUs was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
It may have taken the better part of a decade, but the Itanium platform has yielded the kinds of profits that Hewlett Packard Enterprise long sought and rarely attained. …
The Ghosts Of Itanium – And HPC – Give HPE Long Sought Profits was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Adam Selipsky spent 11 years helping Andy Jassy build Amazon Web Services from a fledgling compute and storage utility to the world’s largest public cloud services provider before leaving in 2016 to become CEO of analytics software maker Tableau Software. …
New AWS CEO Puts Greater Focus On Industry Verticals was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Supercomputers are expensive, and getting increasingly so. Even if they are delivering impressive performance gains over the past decade, modern HPC workloads require an incredible amount of performance, and this is particularly true of any workload that is going to blend together traditional HPC simulation and modeling with some sort of machine learning training and inference. …
In A Peer-To-Peer Datacenter, PCI-Express Fabrics Will Be Pervasive was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In the thirty years the Top 500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, Thailand has never had a system rank high enough to secure a spot. …
Thailand Set to Join Global Supercomputing Elite was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
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.