Raja Koduri has been in the thick of the past two eras of computing, which were marked by – among other things – the ability to architect systems and software that helped to get more performance into the hands into increasing numbers of people. …
Building A Better Machine For An AI World was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
For the past several years here at The Next Platform, as we have been pondering what IBM might do with the future Power10 processor, we have been feinting here and there with our analytical pen, trying to suss out precisely what Big Blue might be up to, particularly with the unique memory architecture that it has been working on for more than a decade. …
IBM Brings An Architecture Gun To A Chip Knife Fight was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
On today’s edition we dig into the network and system architecture of the “Selene” supercomputer at Nvidia. …
Next Platform TV for August 18, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
It has been a long time since Intel changed its manufacturing process – what it used to call a “tick” – and the microarchitecture and architecture of a processor design – what it used to call a “tock” – at the same time. …
The Ticking And Tocking Of Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As we all know well, the various elements computer architecture swing on their own pendulums, with consolidated being at the center and distributed being at the opposite ends of the arc. …
Staking The Claim For The Real DPU was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Inside look at Oak Ridge National Lab’s facilities for Summit -> Frontier; The Quantum Internet; ‘ADIOS’ to Data Management; AI for Neuroimaging; Cloud Price/Perf for Genomics; + More.. …
Next Platform TV for August 13, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Multiplying things by two and putting them on a roadmap is easy, even if it does take a lot of courage to do that. …
The Tech Tricks That Make PCI-Express 6.0 And Beyond Possible was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
On today’s program we look at the future of Cray as part of HPE with former Cray CEO and current HPC and mission-critical systems lead at HPE-Cray, Pete Ungaro. …
Next Platform TV for August 6, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
It takes money to make money, and if you want to break into the switch ASIC business in the datacenter, even if you are a low-cost designer of such chips, you had better have some rich friends to help the business take off. …
Switch ASIC Thoroughbred Sprouts Wings To Attain Unicorn Status was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Datacenters have evolved from physical servers, to virtualized systems, and now to composable infrastructure where resources such as storage and persistent memory are disaggregated from the server. …
Datacenter Is The New Unit Of Compute, Open Networking Is How To Automate It was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Back in April, when we were talking with Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang about the datacenter being the new unit of compute, we explained that we were always disappointed with the fact that Nvidia did not bring its “Denver” hybrid Arm CPU and Nvidia GPU, previewed way back in January 2011, to market, and said further we really wanted Nvidia to redefine what a CPU is by breaking its memory and I/O truly free from its compute. …
The Dollars And Sense Of Nvidia Paying A Fortune For Arm was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
On today’s show we talk about MLPerf benchmarks and what we can infer from training results; we talk AI accelerator integration in HPC systems and software stacks; we take a look at a new cluster competition and talk “Moneyball Medicine” to close the program. …
Next Platform TV for July 31, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Any workload that has a complex dataflow with intricate data needs and a requirement for low latency should probably at least consider an FPGA for the job. …
Feeding The Datacenter Inference Beast A Heavy Diet Of FPGAs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The hardest job at any chip designer that doesn’t actually own its own foundry – and maybe even those that do – is figuring out what wafer start commitment level to make for a new compute engine in the datacenter. …
Balancing AMD’s Future On The Edge Of A Silicon Wafer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A lot of the people who are working at the many AI chip startups have a long history in processor development in the datacenter, and that is certainly true of the folks who founded SambaNova Systems. …
Software Has To Lead Hardware In The AI Dance was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
On Next Platform TV for today, July 29 we delve into a congressional perspective on AI investments; discuss a new path to low precision in ASICs; talk about the 8-socket server market; and also touch on object storage insights. …
Next Platform TV for July 29, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The drive toward exascale computing is giving researchers the largest HPC systems ever built, yet key bottlenecks persist: More memory to accommodate larger datasets, persistent memory for storing data on the memory bus instead of drives, and the lowest power consumption possible. …
Building An Ecosystem for Heterogeneous Memory Supercomputing was written by Ken Strandberg at The Next Platform.
It is easy to understand the lure of the public cloud’s siren call. …
The Style Of Cloud Networking In The Corporate Datacenter was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
There isn’t really a systems business so much as a collection of them, all unique and all facing their own particular challenges. …
Big Blue Should Start Believing In Big Iron Again was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There is such a thing as a string of bad luck, but we have always believed that luck is the residue of design, either good or bad. …
Intel Tests Its Datacenter Teflon With 7 Nanometer Delay was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.