Atom Computing adds itself to a growing list of quantum systems makers with pedigreed founders, funding announcements, and a market that even the big players haven’t mastered. …
What Are Quantum Hardware Startups Thinking? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
For oil and gas companies looking at drilling wells in a new field, the issue becomes one of return vs. …
Getting Industrial About The Hybrid Computing And AI Revolution was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
IBM may not be the biggest provider of systems in terms of the size of its customer base, but of the top 5,000 or so companies worldwide that are not hyperscalers and cloud builders in their own right, Big Blue does have a sizeable share of the system budget. …
IBM Starts Showing A Little Hybrid Vigor was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Resistive RAM (ReRAM) technology has been waiting for its moment in the sun for several years now. …
A Surprising New Job for ReRAM Technology was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
When it comes to a silicon startup bringing a product to market in a tough competitive landscape, nothing is easy. …
Graphcore Right on the Money in First MLPerf Appearance was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
It is a relatively quiet International Supercomputing conference on the hardware front, with no new processors or switch ASICs being announced from the usual suspects. …
Intel Delays “Sapphire Rapids” Server Chips, Confirms HBM Memory Option was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AI/ML, more sophisticated analytics, and larger-scale HPC problems all bode well for the on-prem storage market in high performance computing (HPC) and are an even bigger boon for cloud storage vendors. …
On-Prem No Longer Center Stage for Broader HPC Storage was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
There was an outside chance that China might pull a surprise on the HPC community and launch the first true exascale system – meaning capable of more than 1 exaflops of peak theoretical 64-bit floating point performance if you want to be generous, and 1 exaflops sustained on the High Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark if you don’t – but that didn’t happen. …
Waiting – Not Precisely Patiently – For Exascale was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If we could take the Fugaku supercomputer out of the HPC market equation and while we were at it, pretend the pandemic never happened, the supercomputing market would be much easier to pin down. …
Exascale Machines Skew HPC Growth Projections was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Almost three years ago, we wrote about Dell Technologies’ efforts to reassert itself into the HPC and supercomputing arena in a big way. …
Dell’s Omnia HPC Software Play was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Sponsored By its very nature, high performance computing is an expensive proposition compared to other kinds of computing. …
HPE GreenLake: The HPC Cloud That Comes To You was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Isn’t it funny how the same hyperscalers who are maniacal about building everything themselves – and who are making a fortune selling access to their infrastructure as cloud services – want you to use their Seriously Hard Information Technology and stop using your own? …
The Many Other High Costs Cloud Users Pay was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Like its U.S. counterpart, Google, Baidu has made significant investments to build robust, large-scale systems to support global advertising programs. …
A Look at Baidu’s Industrial-Scale GPU Training Architecture was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Not so very long ago, distributed computing meant clustering together a bunch of cheap X86 servers and equipping them with some form of middleware that allowed for work to be distributed across hundreds to thousands to sometimes tens of thousands of nodes. …
Enfabrica Takes On Hyperdistributed I/O Bottlenecks was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Current custom AI hardware devices are built around super-efficient, high performance matrix multiplication. …
What Happens When Multipliers No Longer Define AI Accelerators? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Whenever something is not working, you change it. Sometimes, you glue things together to create some sort of synergy and then you pull them apart to get some sort of necessary focus. …
Intel Reorg Puts Gelsinger Firmly In Control Of The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Everybody wants to build a platform, hence the name of this publication. …
Nvidia Expands AI Stack, Stretches From Cloud To Co-Location was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The era of vector supercomputing might sound like ancient history to some but it’s still deeply rooted in major commercial and government institutions. …
U.S. Military Looks to NEC to Salvage (Way) Legacy Codes was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The hybrid cloud is convincing established players that they need to play on both sides of the net, in the cloud (as well as the edge) and on premises. …
HPE Builds Lighthouse Platform On GreenLake Services was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The Fugaku supercomputer, based on the Arm-driven A64FX processor and custom Fujitsu Tofu-D fabric, has been proven architecturally on a number of HPC and large-scale AI benchmarks and has drawn considerable attention among the supercomputing set. …
U.S. Institutions Put Fujitsu A64FX Through the Paces was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.