Today we look at an evaluation of AMD versus Nvidia GPUs for HPC applications, we also consider infrastructure for AI in production drug discovery, and in a completely different direction, we talk to Danny Shapiro, head of automotive at Nvidia about the datacenter requirements for future autonomous vehicles. …
Next Platform TV for Monday, June 28 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Hardware accelerated databases are not new things. More than twenty years ago, Netezza was founded and created a hybrid hardware architecture that ran PostgreSQL on a big, wonking NUMA server running Linux and accelerated certain functions with adjunct accelerators that were themselves hybrid CPU-FPGA server blades that also stored the data. …
Accelerated Databases In The Fast Lane was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
On today’s show we talk to Dr. Jack Dongarra, co-founder of the Top 500 supercomputer list and creator of several companion benchmarks, including HPCG. …
Next Platform TV for Wednesday, June 24 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
There are two Amperes in datacenter compute right now, and they are both gunning for Xeons. …
Ampere Reveals “Quicksilver” Altra Lineup, 128-Core “Mystique” Kicker was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise in January created its Transformation Office with an eye toward accelerating its move to become a platform provider – complete with hardware, software, services and other components – with a reach from the datacenter out through the cloud and to the fast-growing edge computing environment. …
HPE Builds Out GreenLake Utility, Creates Ezmeral Software was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Bioinformatics research that targets infectious diseases is more important now than ever. …
Bioinformatics To CLIMB Higher With AI was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Today on Next Platform TV, we take a distinct look at the world of HPC with the release of the annual Top 500 list of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. …
Next Platform TV for June 22, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
There is a constant push and pull between budget and architecture in supercomputing, and the passing of time has not made anyone’s arms tired as yet on both sides of the bargaining table. …
Arm And Japan Get Their Day In The HPC Sun was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
On this wide-ranging episode of Next Platform we move in several directions; from the world of bioinformatics infrastructure in the pandemic era to what’s ahead for HPC to what the largest cloud vendors are buying—and what that means for the market. …
Next Platform TV for Friday, June 19, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Every orchestra needs a conductor to keep everyone playing together on pace, and while a good conductor doesn’t need to know how to play every instrument well, they have to know how to play many instruments and also to understand how it all comes together to create a symphony. …
The Conductor That Sets The Pace For Science At Oak Ridge was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Even before the coronavirus pandemic hit, Intel, the dominant maker of processors for servers on the planet, was rejiggering its product roadmaps behind the scenes in conjunction with its largest OEM partners as well the hyperscalers and large public cloud builders that drive about a third of its revenues these days. …
Taking A Deep Dive Into “Cooper Lake” Xeon SP Processors was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Java turned 25 years old in May, marking a quarter of a century in which it has consistently been one of the most widely used programming languages. …
Making Java Play Nice With Kubernetes was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.
Data growth is the one exponential we can all relate to and will continue to grow into the future. …
Getting Unstructured Data Under Control was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The composable systems trend has taken root in some of the world’s largest datacenters, most notably among hyperscale companies, but has been less quick to catch on in traditional high performance computing (HPC) environments. …
Composing ’Expanse’: Building Blocks for Future HPC was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The external storage market – like most sectors of the IT industry – took a beating in the first quarter, thanks in large part to the novel coronavirus pandemic. …
Pure Storage’s Strategy Chief Talks Flash, NVMe, And The Competition was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
System architects that live in the Seattle area who don’t want to uproot their lives and move to California or Texas or New York or maybe possibly Illinois or Oregon or even overseas to Japan or China have a fairly small number of job opportunities. …
Great Scott: Spanning Supercomputing And Clouds was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The coronavirus pandemic has obviously had an impact on spending trends in the IT market. …
HPE Further Blurs The Storage Line Between On Premises And The Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Moving its eponymous NoSQL document database to the cloud and running it as a managed service has been a watershed event for MongoDB, which like a number of its peers in the broader database market are growing at the expense of relational databases that can’t scale as well for certain workloads. …
The Ever-Embiggening Humongous Document Database was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sometimes, to get the proper perspective, you have to take the long view. …
Server Spending Measures Aspiration As Much As Oomph was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Every IT supplier has cloudy envy. And not just because utility-style pricing has become normalized by the big public clouds, but because they want to have a more regular, annuity-like revenue stream rather than always chasing the next deal. …
The Pursuit Of Storage That Spans The Clouds was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.