If you want to understand datacenter infrastructure and how the market for wares is changing, it helps to start with an absolute, top-down, all-encompassing view that brings together all server, storage, and switching revenues into a single bucket, eliminating the overlaps that occur when talking about these three different categories separately. …
Datacenter Infrastructure Is Still Only Partly Cloudy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There is plenty of potential to upset traditional storage via leveraging on-board NVMe devices and while the competition is thick and fierce, there are a few companies that are already standing out in 2021. …
What’s Behind One NVMe Storage Company’s Meteoric Rise was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Hot on the heels of our overview of the state of the Arm server CPU landscape yesterday, chip maker Qualcomm, which dabbled in Arm server chips a few years back, announced that it was acquiring startup Nuvia for its Arm chips and design team. …
Qualcomm Probably Not Pursuing Arm Servers With Nuvia Purchase was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Silicon photonics has been proving its worth in telco and communications but there is a much brighter opportunity photonics-based computing. …
A Five-Year Challenge Roadmap for Photonics-Based Computing was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Running a company of any size is the hardest thing you will ever do. …
Finally, The Right Pilot At The Intel Helm was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Every large IT shop has its own unique I/O demands; from mixed workloads to high volume or velocity of data and all the points in between. …
Blazing New Trails in Storage for Large-Scale Recommendation Systems was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
IT organizations are funny creatures, indeed. On the one paw, they are eternally optimistic about the prospects for new technologies, and on the other paw, they are extremely resistant to change because of the economic and technical risks that change requires. …
Hope Springs Eternal For Arm Servers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For those who follow supercomputing, weather forecasting is one area to watch for systems that are designed for maximum capability. …
The Weather Company Raises GPU, Storage Forecasts was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
While this new year might not mark the moment when the first drugs are discovered via molecular dynamics simulations running on a full-scale quantum, there are several signs that a number of important collaborations between the few quantum vendors and major biotech companies are announced. …
2021 Could Be the Year of Quantum Drug Discovery was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
While the related topics of fault tolerance and resiliency do not garner the same attention as performance and efficiency, being able to recover from and work around failures, especially as applications take over ever-large and increasingly heterogenous machines, is more important than ever. …
Who Shoulders the Supercomputing Resiliency Burden? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Software may be eating the world, as Marc Andreessen correctly asserted nearly a decade ago, but some parts of the world are crunchier than others and take some time for the hardware to be smashed open and for software to flow in and out of it. …
Software Is Eating Every Layer Of The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Medical imaging technologies are invaluable tools in the diagnosis and treatment of patients, allowing healthcare professionals to non-invasively see what lies deep inside the body, identify any disease and/or abnormalities, and determine appropriate treatments. …
The Power of AR and AI in Medical Context was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Unless you work at an IT-sophisticated HPC or enterprise shop with a long-term view on high performance storage, you probably well understand the “just in time” nature of storage procurement. …
The Right Hammer for “Cobbled Storage” was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
There could be a new era of codesign dawning for machine learning, one that moves away from the training and inference separations and toward far less dense networks with highly sparse weights and activations. …
Reimagining Accelerators with Sparsity at the Core was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Although there are now well-engineered systems that tightly package compute, acceleration, and data movement for deep learning training, for some users, working on time-critical AI training (and constant retraining), the backend applications and frameworks require a different way of thinking. …
Evolving GPUs Power Content Recommendation at Scale was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Global positioning systems (GPS) are in the crosshairs for quantum computing investment from the U.S. …
U.S. Air Force Research Locates Possibilities in Quantum at the Edge was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Don’t expect big on-prem HPC hardware investments from biotech companies given COVID drivers.
What COVID Means for Biotech Compute Investments in 2021 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Computing has become more complex as the digital age has progressed. …
Hybrid Computing Sharpens Its Edge was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In the IT sector, there is a constant flow of little changes to hardware and software that culminate in progress. …
The Tectonic Shift To Virtual Distributed Routing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
No matter how established any market is, there is always the churning and burning of change happening and there is always an opportunity for new players to carve out a place for themselves in new niches. …
The Serendipitous AI System And Cloud Builder was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.