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.
The switching market has its ups and downs depending on the upgrade cycle for server processors and the nature of the economy at any given time, and despite the uncertainty in the economy, the Ethernet switching and routing markets keep humming along. …
Datacenter Networks Push Ethernet Switching To New Highs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Fannie Mae is one of the largest financial institutions in the world with $4.2 trillion in mortgage volume. …
Fannie Mae Moves More Mission-Critical Mortgage Work to AWS was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Since its inception in 2009 as a provider of all-flash systems, Pure Storage has carefully put together a portfolio that has many of the storage bases in the datacenter covered. …
Pure Storage Takes On Tier 1 Storage With FlashArray//XL was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
When you have a massively distributed computing job that can take months to run across thousands to hundreds of thousands of compute elements, one software hardware or software crash can mean losing an enormous amount of work. …
Memory Snapshots Bring Checkpointing Into The 21st Century was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.