Long gone are the days when high performance computing was limited solely to traditional simulation and modeling at academic and government research labs. …
A New Era In High Performance Computing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Dan Stanzione has a lot of compute power at his fingertips. …
Attacking The Novel Coronavirus With Supercomputing Cycles was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Going from sequence data based on millions of lines of short DNA fragments to the final, simplified report for clinicians is no small undertaking from IT standpoint. …
Building Bulletproof Bioinformatics Storage was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Users of relational database management systems are accustomed to sub-second response for relatively simple online transaction processing, and have been able to enjoy those zippy responses for decades. …
Presto Is The Third Time Charm For Federated Databases was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
While Xilinx and Intel are the dominant suppliers of discrete FPGAs and related system on chip designs that have FPGAs at their heart, they are by no means the only providers of programmable logic in the datacenter. …
Not All FPGAs Need To Be Discrete was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
With 5.4 petaflops of peak performance crammed into 760 compute nodes, that is a lot of computing capability in a small space generating a considerable amount of heat. …
Cooling Magma Is A Challenge That Lawrence Livermore Can Take On was written by Ken Strandberg at The Next Platform.
It is common knowledge in the manufacturing sector of the economy that many of the companies that should have deployed HPC simulation and modeling applications one or two decades ago to help with product design, among other tasks, did not do so. …
Avoiding The Missing Middle With AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you want to build a successful hardware ecosystem around a chip architecture that has recently been open sources, as the Power chip instruction set was last August, then it probably makes a lot of sense to put someone at the help of the project who has deep and broad experience participating in the open source software ecosystem. …
OpenPower Puts Open Source Software Guru In Charge was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When you have 54.2 billion transistors to play with, you can pack a lot of different functionality into a computing device, and this is precisely what Nvidia has done with vigor and enthusiasm with the new “Ampere” GA100 GPU aimed at acceleration in the datacenter. …
Diving Deep Into The Nvidia Ampere GPU Architecture was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As the name of this publication suggests, we are system thinkers and we like to watch the evolution of a collection of tools into a platform. …
The GPU Database Evolves Into An Analytics Platform was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Open source hardware is something that is intellectually satisfying as well as economically rewarding, but it is clearly now something for everyone. …
Still Open For Business After All These Years was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is hard to remember sometimes way back when, in 2008, when Nvidia first took a stab at GPU compute in the datacenter with the original Tesla GPU accelerators and a very rudimentary CUDA programming environment for offloading parallel algorithms from CPUs to GPUs. …
Before Long, Datacenter Will Be Nvidia’s Biggest Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A year ago, Dell Technologies made a significant push deeper into the fast-growing hybrid cloud space, unveiling its Dell Technologies Cloud initiative that includes hybrid cloud platforms that take advantage of the tight integration of technologies from Dell and VMware, which is majority owned by the larger company. …
Google And Dell Pave The Way For File Data In The Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
There are many things the U.S. government can do, but innovating at a rapid pace in the ever-evolving world of artificial intelligence is not necessarily one of them. …
What Could Stifle American AI Innovation? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Let’s face it. There is nothing simple about large-scale sequencing and targeted analysis of genomic data. …
For UK Genomics Initiative, Compute is the Easy Part was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
One reason we’re watching Lawrence Livermore National Lab closely is because they are at the forefront when it comes to blending emerging HPC, deep learning, and edge technologies for applications that are representative of what’s next. …
Where AI Might Fit in the Supercomputers of 2030 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Supercomputers are designed for a number of big jobs that can only be done by massively powerful machinery, and one of those jobs has been the modeling of chemical compounds and biological systems, often in concert to model diseases and to help find cures for them. …
With Fugaku Supercomputer Installed, RIKEN Takes On Coronavirus was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Artificial intelligence is a broad area, covering diverse fields such as image recognition, natural language processing (NLP), and robotics. …
The Next Wave Of AI Is Even Bigger was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.
The hyperscalers and cloud builders have been setting the pace for innovation in the server arena for the past decade or so, particularly and publicly since Facebook set up the Open Compute Project in April 2011 and ramping up as Microsoft joined up in early 2014 and basically created a whole new server innovation stream that was unique from – and largely incompatible with – the designs put out by Facebook. …
Inside Facebook’s Future Rack And Microserver Iron was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A new CPU or GPU compute engine is always an exciting time for the datacenter because we get to see the results of years of work and clever thinking by hardware and software engineers who are trying to break through barriers with both their Dennard scaling and their Moore’s Law arms tied behind their backs. …
Ampere DGX Servers Pack A Wallop, Including AMD Epyc CPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.