Does Michael Dell want to be Intel’s largest shareholder? Maybe, just maybe. …
Crazy Move #1486: Intel Buys VMware was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As supercomputer centers have long known and as hyperscalers and cloud builders eventually learned, the larger the cluster, the greater the chance that on of the many components in the system will fail at any particular time. …
Microsoft Does The Math On Azure Datacenter Switch Failures was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
People in cities around the world who use subways to move around will often see or hear the warning to “mind the gap” – or something similar – a caution to riders to be aware of the space between the doors of the train and the station platform. …
Minding The Gaps Between Software Development And Production was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
There are few companies with a better handle on the pros and cons of serverless than learning hub, Khan Academy. …
Serverless Veteran Khan Academy on Pros, Cons was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
History doesn’t really repeat itself, but it surely does use a lot of synonyms and rhymes, and sometimes, if you listen very closely, you can catch it muttering to itself. …
AMD Finally Breaks The 10 Percent Server Share Barrier was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Without any of its own hardware and most of its software heavy-lifting dedicated to front-end development, security, and broader AWS systems integration, the cloud giant could own the quantum computing user base.
Why AWS Could Own the Future of Quantum Computing was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Chip manufacturing giant, GlobalFoundaries, has struck up a unique arrangement with an ambitious quantum startup to share knowledge that could help turn standard photonics processing technology into a qubit factory. …
GlobalFoundries Sharpens Photonics Edge for Quantum Manufacturing was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
It has been a long time coming. Over two years, in fact. …
The 400 Gb/sec Ethernet Upgrade Cycle Finally Begins was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The public cloud for years has tempted enterprises with the promise of much-needed agility and scalability that come with an elastic IT environment and of cost savings from not having to invest a lot of money upfront to buy a lot of infrastructure, adopting instead more flexible consumption models that allow organizations to pay only for what they use. …
Getting The Cloud But Keeping Control was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Big Blue got out of the chip foundry business when it sold off its IBM Microelectronics division to GlobalFoundries, itself a spinout of AMD, in 2014. …
IBM Chips In To Drive 2 Nanometer Semiconductor Manufacturing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The top brass at FPGA maker Xilinx are not hosting calls with Wall Street because of the pending $35 billion acquisition of the company by AMD, so we are left to get our own insight out of the financial report and accompanying statement that Xilinx has released for its latest quarterly results. …
Xilinx Keeps Pushing Programmable Logic As It Awaits AMD Takeover was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The mighty SoC is coming for the datacenter with inference as a prime target, especially given cost and power limitations. …
SoC-Driven Inference Datacenters Becoming New Reality was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
If the world was not a complex place, and if all machine learning training looked more or less the same, then there would only be one accelerator to goose training workloads. …
Balancing Performance, Capacity, And Budget For AI Training was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There has been a land rush of sorts by storage OEMs over the past few weeks to roll out systems and services designed to help enterprises manage and process the huge amounts of data that is being created and stored throughout their widely distributed IT environments. …
Now Storage Jumps Into HPE’s GreenLake was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
With the AI chip startup hype cycle spinning down from its feverish pace in 2018, giving way to 2021 expectations for real-world deployments, it still difficult to see which company will steal what little share is left in the Nvidia/Intel/AMD dominated datacenter. …
Will Groq Re-Emerge to Steal AI Market Share? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
If you want to break into datacenter compute in a sustainable way, it takes the patience of a glacier. …
The Prospects For An Arm Server Insurrection was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Four years ago, Cloudian was a six-year-old startup in an object storage space that, while the technology had been around for more than a decade, was seeing a surge of interest from cloud providers desperate for a storage architecture that only could scale to meet the demands of their rapidly growing datacenters, the massive amounts of data that was being generated and the need to be able to more easily move it between core on-premises datacenters and multiple cloud environments – and in the coming years the edge. …
Object Storage Makes A Push Into HPC was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
What is the difference between a row of servers at one of the 80 availability zones in 25 geographic regions run by Amazon Web Services and a printing press at one of the four facilities run by the US Mint? …
The AWS Printing Press Keeps Spitting Out Money was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Machine learning techniques based on massive amounts of data and GPU accelerators to chew through it are now almost a decade old. …
Inspur Rises On The Wave of AI Servers In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Digitally prototyping complex designs, such as large physical structures, biological features, and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) requires supercomputers running sophisticated multiphysics solvers. …
The Cloud Lets Engineers Access Powerful Multiphysics Solvers was written by Ken Strandberg at The Next Platform.