In the accelerated era of exascale supercomputing, MPI is being pushed to its logical limits. …
Rethinking MPI for GPU Accelerated Supercomputers was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Big Blue shelled out an incredible $34 billion to buy open source infrastructure software juggernaut Red Hat, and it is determined not to just tend and grow that business, which brought in around $3.85 billion in sales in 2019 as the deal closed and probably somewhere around $4.6 billion in 2020. …
Power To The Kubernetes People was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It was only two years ago that Cloudera, once one of the top vendors in what had been a white-hot Hadoop market, found itself fighting for survival. …
Cloudera Pivots To Data Management As Hadoop Fades was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
AMD has been on such a run with its future server CPUs and server GPUs in the supercomputer market, taking down big deals for big machines coming later this year and out into 2023, that we might forget sometimes that there are many more deals to be done and that neither Intel nor Nvidia are inactive when it comes to trying to get their compute engines into upper echelon machines. …
Taking A Superhybrid Approach To HPC/AI Convergence was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We have a saying around here at The Next Platform, and it is this: Money is not the point of the game. …
The Datacenter Is Just A Big Game For Nvidia was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
SambaNova Systems is a technology startup founded in 2017 by a group of far-sighted engineers and data scientists who saw that the current approaches to AI and machine learning were beginning to run out of steam, and that an entire new architecture would be necessary in order to make AI accessible for everyone as well as deliver the scale, performance, accuracy and ease of use needed for future applications. …
Changes Go Far Beyond Just AI, Machine Learning was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.
The package is the most compact platform to do heterogenous integration for IP that can’t be naturally integrated in silicon but steady incremental improvements versus game-changing approaches are the only foreseeable path forward. …
Intel Knows It’s All In The Packaging was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Earlier this year, we projected that 2021 would be the year of quantum computing for drug discovery, positing the idea that this is one of only a few areas where there is big ROI to offset the work required to map codes to quantum systems. …
GlaxoSmithKline Marks Quantum Progress with D-Wave was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The lines between a server, a SmartNIC, and a Data Processing Unit, or DPU, are getting fuzzier, and the good news is that definitions do not matter nearly as much as use cases. …
Giving SmartNICs Bigger FPGA And CPU Brains was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It’s a great thing when an upstart supplier of hardware or software lands one of the hyperscalers or large public cloud builders on Earth as a customer. …
Arista Networks Brings The Battle For Routing To Cisco was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Everyone who can afford it wants to emulate how the hyperscalers operate their infrastructure. …
Hyperscalers Are Pushing Big Banking Infrastructure Around was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Greg Kurtzer, one of the co-founders of the CentOS Linux distribution, the creator of the Singularity container environment for HPC workloads, the founder of the new Rocky Linux distribution that seeks to replace the now defunct CentOS, and an HPC guru in his own right, is on a mission. …
The Founder Of CentOS Is Building The Next Platform was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Remember how, just a decade ago, Hadoop was the cure to all the world’s large-scale enterprise IT problems? …
Why the Fortune 500 is (Just) Finally Dumping Hadoop was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The hyperscalers and cloud builders can be split into two camps, but a third one might be emerging. …
The Citadel That Is Still Cisco Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The inception of Google’s effort to build its own AI chips is quite well known by now but in the interests of review, we’ll note that as early 2013 the company envisioned machine learning could consume the majority of its compute time. …
What Chip Startups Can Learn from Google’s TPU Design Team was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
In our first article in this short series we explored SambaNova Systems’ thesis that future advances in AI require a new architecture to handle new and highly demanding workloads. …
A Simultaneous Boost for AI, Traditional HPC was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.
The quantum computing race is on to collect as many Fortune 500 companies to sign onto broad research agreements that send a clear message: quantum may still be on the horizon, but leading enterprises are already taking it seriously. …
IBM Gathers Energy Giants for Quantum Network was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
There are two different Auroras right now in supercomputing. There is the shape-shifting, legendary, and maybe even mythical “Aurora” and now “Aurora A21” exascale supercomputer that was being built by Intel with “Knights” many core processors and now, if Intel can get them out the door, with a combination of “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon SP processors and “Ponte Vecchio” Xe GPU accelerators, for Argonne National Laboratory. …
Czech Republic Sticks With NEC Vector Engines For Weather Modeling was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There is a new challenge workload on the horizon, one where few can afford to compete. …
The Billion Dollar AI Problem That Just Keeps Scaling was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The trade war between the United States and China is not just a top-down political and economic one, but also a technical one. …
A First Peek At China’s Sunway Exascale Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.