Most of the large companies and institutions we cover here at The Next Platform have already been in the AI/ML trenches, particularly the hyperscale web and media companies (where much of this work began) and in high performance computing. …
Aspiration Versus Action for Enterprise AI was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
In its short lifetime, Vast Data has been able to put its stamp on a fast-changing data storage market. …
Vast Data Eyes A Role In The Datacenter Beyond Storage was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Not every manufacturing node comes out perfectly and not every one comes out on time, but in the past decade and a half, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the world’s largest and most technologically advanced etcher of chips in the world, has done far better than any of its few remaining peers to push the chip manufacturing envelope while also maintaining consistent and profitable production of older nodes. …
The Money Printing Press That Is Chip Maker TSMC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Paid Feature There are many ways to scale up and scale out systems, and that is a problem as much as it is a solution for distributed systems architects. …
Composing The Impossible Server was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The big three clouds – Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud – are all addressing the same issues of scale, performance, and economics and are also trying to attract the same workloads from the same pool of enterprise, government, and academic customers. …
Sacrificing Some Performance To Make Cloud Data Analytics Portable was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
VMware made its mark in the fast-growing Kubernetes space in 2019 with the launch of its Tanzu portfolio, expanding its reach beyond virtual machines and into the world of containers. …
Easing The Heavy Lifting With Kubernetes was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Chip maker Nvidia might be best known for its graphics and datacenter compute engines, but the company has made no secret of its aspirations to be a bigger player across the datacenter. …
Nvidia Adds Cluster Management To Its Enterprise Stack was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
LG Electronics plans to explore quantum applications with IBM in the coming years with emphasis on areas as diverse as AI, IoT, robotics, and analytics on the table for potential quantum speedups. …
LG Sees Clear Quantum Picture with IBM was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Around the world, the number and size of datacenters are both growing at a fast pace, and the devices housed in them are consuming more and more power as well to deliver ever-increasing performance. …
Wanted: An Energy-Aware Datacenter Application Scheduler was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Paid Post Yes, you know that AI and HPC are two of the big drivers for business compute over the coming years. …
More Processor Performance Doesn’t Always Mean Better Performance was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
There are two types of packaging that represent the future of computing, and both will have validity in certain domains: Wafer scale integration and multichip module packaging. …
Nvidia Research Plots A Course To Multiple Multichip GPU Engines was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Ask any quantum computing startup (and there are too many count) about the rate of enterprise adoption for the emerging technology and the response will be quick: Fortune 500s are all investing heavily. …
Transportation, Logistics in the Quantum Crosshairs was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
When Tim Sears ran complex portfolio risk analysis on Wall Street in 2004, an eight-hour, overnight run was the best that could be expected, even on high-end hardware. …
AI Chipmaker Groq Chases Financial Risk Firms was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
For more than a decade, the pace of the server market was set by the rollout of Intel’s Xeon processors each year. …
The Year Ahead In Datacenter Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There are good reasons for the persistence of C, C++ and Fortran in high performance computing, even with some the inherent productivity challenges (extensive memory management and debugging in particular). …
Strong Showing for Julia Across HPC Platforms was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
PROMO Exascale technologies will shape your world in the years ahead, whether they’re on your 2022 to do list or not. …
Don’t get left out in the cold! Warm up on great solutions at Lenovo Winterstock 2022 was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
One could argue that the last few years have highlighted some of the most pressing semiconductor industry issues but there are challenges on the horizon well beyond current supply chain and silicon manufacturing bottlenecks. …
The Five Horsemen of the Data Apocalypse was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
While the U.S., China, Japan and other countries have laid out, or even achieved, exascale supercomputing goals, the European continent has been less clear on its own path. …
Europe Clears Path to 2023 Exascale Supercomputer was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The Graviton family of Arm server chips designed by the Annapurna Labs division of Amazon Web Services is arguably the highest volume Arm server chips the datacenter market today, and they have precisely one – and only one – customer. …
Inside Amazon’s Graviton3 Arm Server Processor was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
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.