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.
It has taken well over a decade, but the momentum toward entirely cloud-based global capital markets is gaining force. …
Nasdaq’s Cloudy Outlook for Global Market Technologies was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
NICE EnginFrame lets you manage your HPC workloads, wherever they are…
If you’re running technical or scientific workloads on-prem, your HPC rig is probably your pride and joy. …
How Can Going Hybrid Break HPC Capacity Constraints? was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
The modern GPU compute engine is a microcosm of the high performance computing datacenter at large. …
Stacking Up AMD MI200 Versus Nvidia A100 Compute Engines was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Usually, innovation starts with the hyperscalers, HPC centers, and cloud builders of the world and spreads to the enterprise. …
Hyperscalers Start Taking Pure Storage Flash For A Spin was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Institutions supporting HPC applications are finding increased demand for heterogeneous infrastructures to support simulation and modeling, machine learning, high performance data analytics, collaborative computing and analytics, and data federation. …
HPC In The Cloud Enables Diverse Scientific Research was written by Ken Strandberg at The Next Platform.
While AWS is making it clear they will continue to innovate around GPUs for cloud-based machine learning, there was little doubt after today that their own Trainium devices are set to outdo what even the top-line Nvidia GPU instances have achieved. …
AWS Sizes Trainium for AI/ML Model Boom was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
It is always an exciting time when there is a new compute engine coming into the market, and interest is particularly keen with any new Arm server chip entry. …
AWS Goes Wide And Deep With Graviton3 Server Chip was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
At this point in supercomputing, it’s becoming an anomaly to see an upcoming double-digit petaflops system not using AMD for CPU and GPU but the National Renewable Energy Laboratory will be taking a more traditional route for the “Kestrel” machine. …
NREL Supercomputer Announce Hints at Future Nvidia GPUs was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.