Decades before there were hyperscalers and cloud builders started creating their own variants of compute, storage, and networking for their massive distributed systems, the major HPC centers of the world fostered innovative technologies that may have otherwise died on the vine and never been propagated in the market at large. …
Lawrence Livermore Kicks In Funds Foster Omni-Path Networking was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and other hyperscale public cloud providers started becoming a force in IT almost a decade ago, questions arose about what the future looked like for traditional datacenter hardware providers like Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. …
Embracing The Inevitable Move From Hardware To Services was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Imagine, if you will, that AMD could make as many Epyc CPUs and Instinct GPU accelerators as it wanted at a reasonable yield and cost. …
Can AMD Keep Doubling Its Datacenter Business? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
To build a very large IT business often takes a channel approach, where manufacturers sell a certain amount of their own product – say to the key 10 percent or 20 percent of their accounts – and then offload the rest of the sales job to a third party. …
Playing The Long Game With The Hyperscalers And Clouds was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In an ideal platform cloud, you would not know or care what the underlying hardware was and how it was composed to run your HPC – and now AI – applications. …
Testing Out HPC On Google’s TPU Matrix Engines was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
While chip designer and maker Intel has a new strategy and a new executive team to implement it, it is going to take a long time for changes made last year and this year to be felt and for product and process roadmap changes to put the company into a better competitive situation. …
Intel Adjusts, However Slowly, To New Realities In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sponsored Feature. Enterprises know they want to do machine learning, but they also know they can’t afford to think too long or too hard about it. …
The Hyperscalers Point The Way To Integrated AI Stacks was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
While the hyperscalers have been running AI workloads against vast datasets in production for a decade and a half, many large enterprises have lots of data they think is relevant but they are not at all experiences with AI and the system requirements it has. …
HPE Creates Its Own AI Stack For Large Enterprises was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
High performance systems have a long history of using water cooling, but advancements in semiconductor technology in the 1980s allowed for big iron to have a few decades of using air cooling. …
Cisco Surfs The Liquid Cooling Wave In The Datacenter was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.
When it comes to co-packaged optical interconnects, there are two camps: Lasers in and lasers out. …
With $130 Million In Hand, Ayar Labs Looks To Commercialize Optical I/O was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The nexus of traditional high performance computing and artificial intelligence is a fact, not a theory, and the exascale-class machinery installed in the United States, Europe, China, and Japan will be a showcase for how these two powerful simulation and analytical prediction techniques can be brought together in many different ways. …
China Stretches Another AI Framework To Exascale was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
It is hard to imagine, but someday, IBM may not care much about its proprietary System z and Power Systems platforms. …
The Financial Longevity That Red Hat Gives IBM was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In a post Moore’s Law world, domain specific hardware is becoming more common. …
Oil And Gas Industry To Get Its Own Stencil Tensor Accelerator was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
When it comes to supercomputing in academia, the cost of a cluster is almost always an issue and this, coupled with the desire to drive as much compute as possible, drives architectural choices. …
NCSA Delta Supercomputer Adopts Slingshot But Forgoes Cray “Shasta” Design was written by Dylan Martin at The Next Platform.
Sponsored Feature. There are a lot of things that the HPC centers and hyperscalers of the world have in common, and one of them is their attitudes about software. …
Wanted: A Complete – And Heavily Customizable – HPC Software Stack was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you were going to build an electronic brain in 2022, it might look something like the Neocortex supercomputer at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center at Carnegie Mellon University. …
PSC Upgrades Neocortex AI Supercomputer With New Cerebras Engines was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Frustrated by the limitations of Ethernet, Google has taken the best ideas from InfiniBand and Cray’s “Aries” interconnect and created a new distributed switching architecture called Aquila and a new GNet protocol stack that delivers the kind of consistent and low latency that the search engine giant has been seeking for decades. …
With Aquila, Google Abandons Ethernet To Outdo InfiniBand was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For most enterprises, the future of IT is infrastructure and systems software that spans multiple clouds, a combination of both disparate public clouds and their own private clouds. …
Weaving Infrastructure Islands Into A Cloudy Pangea was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
There is a likelihood that we could see both British chip designer Arm Holdings and one of its server-focused startup adherents, Ampere Computing, go public this year, as indicated by recent rumors of the first and news from Ampere itself this morning that it has confidentially filed for an initial public offering. …
Ampere’s IPO Filing Signals More Arm Cash And More Arm Scrutiny was written by Dylan Martin at The Next Platform.
The hyperscalers have taught us many lessons in the past two decades, and one of them is that everything that can be defined in software should be so that it can be controlled automatically and programmatically – and that goes double for hardware, which has required so much human babysitting over the decades. …
Expanding DevOps With Infrastructure As Code was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.