We don’t use the first person a lot here at The Next Platform, but I am going to make an exception. …
The Increasing Hybrid Vigor Of AWS Is Historical was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Surviving in an ever-evolving and fast-changing industry like IT requires companies to understand the landscape, see where the trends are going, and be willing to adapt to what’s happening in front of them. …
Nutanix Stretches Across The Hybrid Clouds was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
That is not a typo in the title. We did not mean to say GPU in title above, or even make a joke that in hybrid CPU_GPU systems, the CPU is more of a serial processing accelerator with a giant slow DDR4 cache for GPUs in hybrid supercomputers these days – therefore making the CPU a kind of accelerator for the GPU. …
One Way To Bring DPU Acceleration To Supercomputing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are foundational to many of the modernization efforts that enterprises are embracing, from leveraging them to more quickly analyze the mountains of data they’re generating and automating operational processes to running the advanced applications – like natural language processing, speech and image recognition, and machine vision – needed by a broad array of industries, from financial services, agriculture, healthcare and automotive. …
Lenovo Spreads The AI Message Far And Wide was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Cisco Systems may still be the biggest supplier of switches and routers in general, but it has long since been surpassed by Broadcom when it comes to suppling the silicon that does the switching itself and sometimes even a little bit of routing in the datacenter in particular. …
Broadcom Widens And Smartens Switch Chip Lineup was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Many of the technologists at AMD who are driving the Epyc CPU and Instinct GPU roadmaps as well as the $35 billion acquisition of FPGA maker Xilinx have long and deep experience in the high performance computing market that is characterized by the old school definition of simulation and modeling workloads running on federated or clustered systems. …
The Redemption Of AMD In HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
No matter what kind of traditional HPC simulation and modeling system you have, no matter what kind of fancy new machine learning AI system you have, IBM has an appliance that it wants to sell you to help make these systems work better – and work better together if you are mixing HPC and AI. …
Injecting Machine Learning And Bayesian Optimization Into HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The push by established datacenter tech vendors to get into the as-a-service game has accelerated in recent months, fueled in part by the COVID-19 pandemic and the need by organizations to more quickly embrace cloud services to help them adapt to the suddenly shifted business model that features a more widely distributed workforce, which brings a truckload of security and management issues. …
Pure Expands Its As-A-Service Playbook was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
For more than three decades, researchers have used a particular simulation method for molecular dynamics called Ab initio molecular dynamics, or AIMD, which has proven itself to be the method most accurate for analyzing how atoms and molecules move and interact over a fixed time period. …
Gordon Bell Prize Winners Leverage Machine Learning For Molecular Dynamics was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
From the time Kubernetes was born in the labs at Google by engineers Joe Beda, Brendan Burns, and Craig McLuckie and then contributed to the open source community, it has become the de facto orchestration platform for containers, enabling easier development, scaling and movement of modern applications between on-premises datacenters and the cloud and between the multiple clouds – public and private – that enterprises are embracing. …
Taking Kubernetes Up To The Next Level was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
To one way of thinking about it, this is the best of times among the worst of times for Nvidia. …
Defying Supply Constraints, Nvidia Turns In Its Best Quarter Ever was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The shift by enterprise IT vendors from hardware box makers to software and services vendors has been ongoing for several years as OEMs have looked to adapt to the rapid changes in a tech world that is becoming application- and data-centric. …
Modern Networks For An Increasingly Distributed IT World was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
We’ve been closely following momentum with Fujitsu’s Arm-based A64FX processor, from its inception to its placement inside the world’s most powerful supercomputer. …
“Wombat” Puts Arm’s SVE Instruction Set to the Test was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Over the next few years, we can expect to hear even more about large-scale computing sites bumping up against the memory wall, although not necessarily where they might expect. …
Exploiting the “Legacy Tax” Loophole for HPC Storage was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
When it comes to advanced technologies at the high end of compute, networking, and storage, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is one of the world’s pathfinding testbeds. …
Blazing The Trail For Exascale Storage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is just plain weird to be attending an SC20 supercomputing conference virtually and to not be going to the IDC – now Hyperion Research – morning breakfast speed forecast just a little bit hungover. …
The Only Way To Predict The HPC Future Is To Live It was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If this is the middle of November, even during a global pandemic, this must be the SC20 supercomputing conference and there either must be a speed bump that is being previewed for the InfiniBand interconnect commonly used for HPC and AI or it is actually shipping in systems. …
InfiniBand Is Still Setting The Network Pace For HPC And AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The compute engines keep changing as the decades pass, but the same old problems keep cropping up in slightly different form. …
Counting The Cost Of Under-Utilized GPUs – And Doing Something About It was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For several years, IBM has been eyeing the hybrid cloud, remaking itself into a provider with the platform that can enable enterprises to more easily move their workloads and data between their on-premises datacenters and the public cloud, and the multiple public clouds they are using. …
OpenShift At The Center Of The Hybrid Cloud Storm was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
There may not be a lot of new systems on the November 2020 edition of the Top500 rankings of supercomputers, but there has been a bunch of upgrades and system tunings of machines that have been recently added, expanding their performance, as well as a handful of new machines that are interesting in their own right. …
The Many Facets Of Hybrid Supercomputing As Exascale Dawns was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.