While the pandemic provided a funding boost to research supercomputing and life sciences HPC, the next wave of investments in HPC systems and simulation software might come from the rapidly evolving hypersonics space. …
Hypersonics Could Fuel Next Wave of HPC Investment was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
While there are not many neuromorphic hardware makers, those on the market (or in the research device sphere) are still looking for ways to run more mainstream workloads. …
MPI on Neuromorphic Hardware Shows Greater Promise was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Designing a great CPU or GPU, or even an FPGA or a custom ASIC like a switch or router chip, is an important aspect of creating ever-more-powerful systems. …
AMD Wants To Put Together The Complete Package was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
And you thought toilet paper shortages were bad in the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, or board and plywood prices are high and getting insane at the local hardware depot that you already spent too much money at. …
When The Chips Are Down And Prices Go Up was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Any tech startup that wants to live beyond is seed and venture funding rounds and make it to either an initial public offering or an acquisition by a company threatened by their very existence has to do two things. …
The Ampere Arm Server Chip Roadmap May Lead Beyond Hyperscalers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Data movement is the king of all challenges for supercomputing sites to hyperscale datacenters. …
Testing the Limits of the BlueField-2 SmartNIC was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
It’s a cliché that the pandemic has changed the way we work forever, but it has certainly turned the spotlight on technologies, processes and practices that have reached the end of their useful life. …
Making Datacenter Networking as Consumable as Compute was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Google may be buying heavens only knows how many GPUs to run HPC and AI workloads on its eponymous public cloud, and it may have talked recently about how it is committed to the idea of pushing the industry to innovate at the SoC level and staying out of designing its own compute engines, but the company is still building its own Tensor Processing Units, or TPUs for short, to support its TensorFlow machine learning framework and the applications it drives within Google and as a service for Google Cloud customers. …
Google Hints About Its Homegrown TPUv4 AI Engines was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Oak Ridge National Lab’s forthcoming “Frontier” supercomputer will be blazing a multitude of new trails when it goes live in 2022. …
First Look at “Frontier” Supercomputer’s Storage Infrastructure was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The things we like best about watching the high end of the IT sector are seeing new technologies come out that have the potential to change the IT landscape and then seeing some market data that proves a technology either did or did not foment the expected change. …
Some Precise Data About Cloudy Infrastructure was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For the past several years, tech giants have been trying to make artificial intelligence in its many guises HPC, data analytics, and other advanced workloads more available and easier to use for enterprises. …
Google Cloud Mainstreams AI With Vertex Platform was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
At this nascent stage of quantum computing, each of the limited hardware/device makers have their own software stacks. …
Coiling Python Around Hybrid Quantum Systems was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Outside of the HPC market where there are a number of companies that have delivered or are working on Arm-based server processors, Ampere Computing is the main independent supplier of Arm-based server chips with its current 80-core Altra chips and its impending 128-core Altra Max chips, which are sampling now and will start shipping in the third quarter. …
Talking Chip With Ampere Computing CEO Renee James was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Covering developments in neuromorphic computing has been something of a piecemeal experience, as happens with all novel architectures. …
Neuromorphic Computing Innovation Favors the Edge was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Imagine a platform that hits a database with over a trillion online signals in a 100ms window and scores ML models over one million times per second to deliver near-real time results across over 100 million destinations. …
How Quantcast Navigated the Cloud TCO Conundrum was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Does Michael Dell want to be Intel’s largest shareholder? Maybe, just maybe. …
Crazy Move #1486: Intel Buys VMware was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As supercomputer centers have long known and as hyperscalers and cloud builders eventually learned, the larger the cluster, the greater the chance that on of the many components in the system will fail at any particular time. …
Microsoft Does The Math On Azure Datacenter Switch Failures was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
People in cities around the world who use subways to move around will often see or hear the warning to “mind the gap” – or something similar – a caution to riders to be aware of the space between the doors of the train and the station platform. …
Minding The Gaps Between Software Development And Production was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
There are few companies with a better handle on the pros and cons of serverless than learning hub, Khan Academy. …
Serverless Veteran Khan Academy on Pros, Cons was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
History doesn’t really repeat itself, but it surely does use a lot of synonyms and rhymes, and sometimes, if you listen very closely, you can catch it muttering to itself. …
AMD Finally Breaks The 10 Percent Server Share Barrier was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.