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.
There are a few unignorable trends in high performance computing, especially in the exascale age. …
Can SYCL Slice into Broader Supercomputing? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The battle for HPC centers and national labs is underway among the leading AI chip startups in the high-end datacenter space (Graphcore, Cerebras, and SambaNova in particular). …
Waferscale Makes Further AI Supercomputing Inroads was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Watching Amazon Web Services explode on the scene and grow to ginormous size has been a thing to behold. …
Even The World’s Largest Multiuser System Has Its Financial Limits was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Businesses will need to adopt AI technologies not just because they can, but because they must – AI is the technology that will help businesses to be agile, innovate, and scale. …
Why Future Advances In AI Need A New Architecture was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.
No matter if you are talking about compute or networking, there are two opposing forces that are constantly at interplay on a field of green money. …
Why There’s Hard, Cold Cash For Soft, Disaggregated Routing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In the current quantum computing landscape, there are hardware and software providers with the most prominent players doing both. …
One Company Could Own the Quantum Product Spectrum was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Investigations, conducted together with scientists at CERN, show promising results – with breakthrough performance – in their pursuit of faster Monte Carlo based simulations, which are an important part of many scientific, engineering, and financial applications. …
CERN Uses DLBoost, oneAPI To Juice Inference Without Accuracy Loss was written by James Reinders at The Next Platform.
As one of the four key engines of compute and networking, we like to keep an eye on what is happening with field programmable gate arrays and the SoCs that incorporate them and have a mix of network and CPU and other accelerator circuits increasingly embedded on them. …
The Lay Of The FPGA Financial Land was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Earlier this month we posited the idea that 2021 could be the year of quantum computing-led drug discovery and predicted that partnerships like those of Google and European pharma giant Boehringer Ingelheim would be more common with more quantum hardware makers tying the knot with drug manufacturers. …
Pharma Giant Roche Partners for Quantum Drug Discovery was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is getting a significant upgrade to its all-CPU “Cheyenne” supercomputer, bringing it from 5.2 peak petaflops of performance to 19.87 with a combination of AMD CPUs and Nvidia A100 GPUs laid out in an HPE Cray XE (formerly called “Shasta”) system. …
AMD, Cray, Nvidia Behind Massive NCAR Supercomputer Upgrade was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.