Any time a server maker comes into the global market and bypasses Cisco Systems, Lenovo, and IBM to become the third largest seller of machines in the world, you should pay attention. …
Talking Servers With Inspur And Intel was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
All good parties come to an end, and the one that Intel has enjoyed for an unbelievable dozen years, starting with the rollout of the “Nehalem” Xeon E5500 processors back in March 2009, is over. …
The Intel Datacenter Party Starts Feeling The Hangover was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Quantum simulators are a strange breed of systems for purposes that might seem a bit nebulous from the outset. …
Nvidia Entangled in Quantum Simulators was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
There has been talk and cajoling and rumor for years that GPU juggernaut Nvidia would jump into the Arm server CPU chip arena once again and actually deliver a product that has unique differentiation and a compelling value proposition, particularly for hybrid CPU-GPU compute complexes. …
Nvidia Enters The Arms Race With Homegrown “Grace” CPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We often focus on the largest high performance computing deployments but a bulk of real enterprise HPC workloads happen in far less sophisticated environments, albeit with applications that still the need scalability, performance, and efficiency the big centers can provide. …
Implementing Commercial HPC Still an Uphill Climb was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Dell took a look at the two weeks between the rollouts by AMD and Intel of their latest server processors and, after some debate, decided to unveil its entire portfolio of new and enhanced systems – featuring the new chips from both vendors – at the launch of AMD’s latest Epyc silicon rather than announce servers in line with the chip makers’ timing. …
For CPU Makers and OEMs Alike, It’s A Platform View was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) will be preparing to put nearly ten racks of Habana AI hardware on the floor, marking the first time we have seen the AI chip startup (acquired by Intel in 2019) in force at any major supercomputing site. …
Intel’s Habana Makes First Supercomputing Appearance was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
When it comes to neural network training, Python is the language of choice. …
Python Could Reset the AI Inference Playing Field was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Amazon Web Services, the juggernaut of cloud computing, may be forging its own path with Arm-based CPUs and associated DPUs thanks to its 2015 acquisition of Annapurna Labs for $350 million. …
Is AWS Making The Switch To Homegrown Network ASICs? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The past several years haven’t been easy on Intel. The world’s top processor maker stumbled on its transition from 14 nanometer to 10 nanometer manufacturing and still finds itself behind rivals like AMD and Arm, which have made the move to 7 nanometer processes and which have line of sight on 5 nanometer. …
Gelsinger Leads Emboldened Intel With Ice Lake Launch was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
At long last, Intel is finally shipping a Xeon SP processor that is based on a 10 nanometer chip manufacturing process and it is finally able to do a better job competing on the technical and economic merits of its Xeon SP processors as architected rather than playing the total system card or the risk card or the discount card to keep its core datacenter compute engine business humming along. …
Intel Fields A 10 Nanometer Server Chip That Competes was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For storage startups focused on the highest end of infrastructure, removing the costs associated with a hardware business might be the only way to reach potential.
Vast Data Sheds Hardware Business to Tackle Largest Users was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Over the past several years, VMware has developed a sprawling portfolio of cloud capabilities that stretch from on-premises datacenters and private clouds out to the public cloud and increasingly into the edge environment. …
VMware Unifies Its Cloud Front was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the largest integrated healthcare system in the United States. …
Improving Surgical Precision with Augmented Reality was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
There are few better ways to land on the radar than having an ongoing contract with NASA for systems and software. …
NASA Sets Launch Pad for HPC, ML Startups was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Many of us have been wracking our brains why Nvidia would spend a fortune – a whopping $40 billion – to acquire Arm Holdings, a chip architecture licensing company that generates on the order of $2 billion in sales – since the deal was rumored back in July 2020. …
Arm’s v9 Architecture Explains Why Nvidia Needs To Buy It was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Over the next year, we should get a good sense of how the Cerebras CS-1 system performs for dual HPC and AI workloads between installations at Argonne and Lawrence Livermore labs, EPCC, and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC). …
Neocortex Supercomputer to Put Cerebras CS-1 to the Test was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
In 2019, Hewlett Packard Enterprise was the first top-tier tech vendor to make the plunge, announcing that it planned to make its entire portfolio – all of its hardware as well as software – available as a service by 2022, leveraging its GreenLake hybrid cloud platform to answer the call to make the on-premises datacenter experience as cloud-like as possible. …
Why Not Networking As A Service? But How? was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED Mention GPUs these days, and you will naturally think about how they can accelerate the most challenging AI and machine learning workloads as well as how they are used in gaming platforms. …
How Are GPUs Going To Change Your Working World? It’s AI, Everywhere was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
For neural networks to expand into more areas in traditional supercomputing, especially in areas where image data is key, high image fidelity and accuracy are critical. …
AI Systems Startup Scales Argonne’s Cosmic Cleanup was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.