Everyone who can afford it wants to emulate how the hyperscalers operate their infrastructure. …
Hyperscalers Are Pushing Big Banking Infrastructure Around was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Greg Kurtzer, one of the co-founders of the CentOS Linux distribution, the creator of the Singularity container environment for HPC workloads, the founder of the new Rocky Linux distribution that seeks to replace the now defunct CentOS, and an HPC guru in his own right, is on a mission. …
The Founder Of CentOS Is Building The Next Platform was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Remember how, just a decade ago, Hadoop was the cure to all the world’s large-scale enterprise IT problems? …
Why the Fortune 500 is (Just) Finally Dumping Hadoop was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The hyperscalers and cloud builders can be split into two camps, but a third one might be emerging. …
The Citadel That Is Still Cisco Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The inception of Google’s effort to build its own AI chips is quite well known by now but in the interests of review, we’ll note that as early 2013 the company envisioned machine learning could consume the majority of its compute time. …
What Chip Startups Can Learn from Google’s TPU Design Team was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
In our first article in this short series we explored SambaNova Systems’ thesis that future advances in AI require a new architecture to handle new and highly demanding workloads. …
A Simultaneous Boost for AI, Traditional HPC was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.
The quantum computing race is on to collect as many Fortune 500 companies to sign onto broad research agreements that send a clear message: quantum may still be on the horizon, but leading enterprises are already taking it seriously. …
IBM Gathers Energy Giants for Quantum Network was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
There are two different Auroras right now in supercomputing. There is the shape-shifting, legendary, and maybe even mythical “Aurora” and now “Aurora A21” exascale supercomputer that was being built by Intel with “Knights” many core processors and now, if Intel can get them out the door, with a combination of “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon SP processors and “Ponte Vecchio” Xe GPU accelerators, for Argonne National Laboratory. …
Czech Republic Sticks With NEC Vector Engines For Weather Modeling was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There is a new challenge workload on the horizon, one where few can afford to compete. …
The Billion Dollar AI Problem That Just Keeps Scaling was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The trade war between the United States and China is not just a top-down political and economic one, but also a technical one. …
A First Peek At China’s Sunway Exascale Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Dutch national supercomputer, called “Cartesius,” which is used for HPC education and research, is getting rather long in the tooth with some of its components being installed as far back as 2013. …
AMD Takes Down Another Supercomputer Deal In Europe was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We live in a world of stratification, social, economic, and technical. …
High-End Chipmakers to Fare Far Better During Semiconductor Crisis was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
BioTeam, the famous HPC consulting practice, is using the quad-socket large memory nodes at the Texas Advanced Computing Center to speed alignment and HMM (Hidden Markov Model) inference workflows to find biological “synonyms” in biological databases like GenBank. …
BioTeam Leverages TACC Fat Nodes To Get Around I/O Bottlenecks was written by Rob Farber at The Next Platform.
Jupyter may have had its beginnings in enterprise data problems but some in the high performance computing community has been adopting it as the prime platform for both data science and AI at massive scale. …
Jupyter Expands Orbit in Supercomputing was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The future has a nasty habit of being very hard to predict. …
The Most Volatile IT Spending Year Is In The Rear View Mirror was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We talk about big money being spent on GPU-accelerated HPC and AI systems all the time here at The Next Platform, and we have been clear that we think another area where such acceleration will take off is with databases and related analytics, and particularly with data warehouses that have trillions of rows of data. …
US Air Force Spends $100 Million To Accelerate Data Warehouses was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If time was any judge, no amount of money in the world could break through problems with poor CPU and server utilization. …
$45 Million in Funding to Fix Low Server Utilization was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
When it comes to large companies with significant investments in quantum computing for a broad user base, no one has the momentum IBM currently does. …
IBM Traces Quantum Productivity, Usability Roadmap to 2025 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
If the datacenter has been taken over by InfiniBand, as was originally intended back in the late 1990s, then PCI-Express peripheral buses and certainly PCI-Express switching – and maybe even Ethernet switching itself – would not have been necessary at all. …
PCI-Express 5.0: The Unintended But Formidable Datacenter Interconnect was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We are in the midst of numerous foundational technological shifts in communications infrastructure that represents a generational opportunity for consumers, businesses, and providers alike. …
The Arc That Networks On-Prem, Multi-Cloud, And The Edge was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.