Necessity is the mother of invention, and advances in chip packaging are catching up to those in transistor design when it comes to working in three dimensions instead of the much more limited two. …
Vertical L3 Cache Raises The AMD Server Performance Bar was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Microsoft has been among the first to build and operationalize clusters based on AMD’s Milan-X processors, which were formally announced this morning. …
Microsoft Azure Brings the Cache with Milan-X was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Anyone building any kind of system that employs any kind of chippery – which means any device today excepting maybe an old-school hammer or screwdriver – is suffering from the vicissitudes and capriciousness of semiconductor supplies. …
Semiconductor Supply Woes Barely Slow Arista Networks was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The HPC community spends a lot of time tracking the development of and production use of the flagship machines deployed by the major national and academic labs of the world. …
The Microcosm Of Global HPC In The Lone Star State was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The rapid movement of data to the cloud, the sharp rise in the amount of east-west traffic and the broadening adoption of modern applications like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are putting stress on traditional networking infrastructures that were designed for a different era and are struggling to meet the demands for better performance, more bandwidth and less latency. …
Startup Rips The Switch Out Of High-Performance Networks was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The coronavirus pandemic giveth to Amazon retail business and its Amazon Web Services cloud business, and the pandemic taketh away from the Amazon retail business. …
Amazon Is The Flywheel, AWS Is The Cash Register was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Database acceleration using specialized co-processors is nothing new. Just to give a few examples, data warehouses running on the Netezza platform, owned by IBM for more than a decade now, uses a custom and parallelized PostgreSQL database matched to FPGA acceleration for database and storage routines. …
The Accelerated Path To Petabyte-Scale Graph Databases was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
While nothing can beat the notoriety of the long-standing LINPACK benchmark, the metric by which supercomputer performance is gauged, there is ample room for a more practical measure. …
Real-World HPC Gets the Benchmark It Deserves was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Just because Intel is no longer interested in being a prime contractor on the largest supercomputing deals in the United States and Europe – China and Japan are drawing their own roadmaps and building their own architectures – does not mean that Intel does not have aspirations in HPC and AI supercomputing. …
Intel Aims For Zettaflops By 2027, Pushes Aurora Above 2 Exaflops was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Here is a moment that Lisa Su, the chief executive officer who has lead the team that brought AMD back into the datacenter with the vigor the market needs, has been waiting six years for. …
AMD Datacenter Sales Break Through $1 Billion In Q3 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Native CPU and accelerator architectures that have been in play on China’s previous large systems have been stepped up to make China first to exascale on two fronts. …
China Has Already Reached Exascale–On Two Separate Systems was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The supply chain is holding back the server business, and not just in the way you are thinking about it. …
Intel Back To Playing The Long Game, Not The Wrong Game was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Over the last twenty years, memory has risen from 10% of the semiconductor market to almost 30%, a trend that is expected to continue, propelled by compute at the edge all the way up to datacenter. …
Micron Urges Government Investment with R&D Spend was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Intel recently announced that High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) will be available on select “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon SP processors and will provide the CPU backbone for the “Aurora” exascale supercomputer to be sited at Argonne National Laboratory. …
How High-Bandwidth Memory Will Break Performance Bottlenecks was written by Rob Farber at The Next Platform.
When we hear about the massive GPT-3 language model, it is natural to assume it is open source and ready for the taking. …
Getting Around the GPT-3 Waitlist, The Hard(Ware) Way was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Intel has spent the past nine months reorganizing itself in the wake of Pat Gelsinger becoming its chief executive officer in January, including new groups and divisions and new managers for them that was revealed in June. …
Prime Contracting No Longer One Of Intel’s HPC Aspirations was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The chip cold war between China and the United States continues to heat up like a processor with a heat sink that it is a little too small. …
Alibaba Rumored To Enter The Arm Server Chip Race was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
So many of Google’s technology developments have had major impacts in the commercial world but the company’s impact on scientific computing has been far less pronounced. …
Why JAX Could Be the Next Platform for HPC-AI was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Dell Technologies, since its founding 37 years ago, has been about infrastructure, from the servers, networking systems and storage appliances that populate enterprise datacenters to the corporate clients that are designed to make employees more productive. …
Dell Ties Storage To Kubernetes, Sharpens Edge Strategy was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Every startup has to be both flexible and focused, and it is tough to balance the two. …
Networking A Way Into The Datacenter From The Outside In was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.