Server buyers have longer memories and perhaps deeper disappointment of AMD’s exit from the X86 server processor business than consumers who buy PCs, and a manufacturing constrained Intel has clearly sacrificed some Core PC chip market share to maintain some Xeon SP server market share over the past two years. …
AMD Rides The High Performance Computing Megacycle was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If the emergence of Nvidia in datacenter compute shows anything, it is the value of controlling the software stack as you come to dominate the compute – and the revenue and profits – in the hardware stack. …
Nvidia Gets Certifiable About Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Getting peak utilization out of GPU farms in the age of AI will be the unending quest. …
Container Approach to Boosting GPU Utilization Secures Bigger Backing was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Without good technology, all the marketing in the world won’t get a company off the ground and keep it in the air, and conversely, without good marketing and sales, all of the technology in the world won’t do it, either. …
After Three Decades, You Can Finally Have A Distributed SQL Database was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The 2010s provided a range of new quantum hardware makers to evaluate but the 2020s will be focused far more software for broader use of nascent quantum devices. …
UK Startup Funded to Create End-All OS for Quantum Computing was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
While the promise of neuromorphic computing going mainstream is still mostly unrealized, there are steps being taken to bring it closer to reality. …
Intel’s Neuromorphic Chip Just Got More Accessible for Mainstream AI was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Sponsored article The augmented reality (AR and virtual reality (VR) market is big business – and growing fast. …
Making AR and VR a Reality in Higher Education was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
At its heart, and until the day it dies, if a corporation ever really dies, International Business Machines will be a platform company, no matter how much it tries to bamboozle itself or Wall Street or Main Street otherwise. …
The Horizontal And Vertical Platforms Of Big Blue was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Over the course of the pandemic, you have probably encountered data from IHME, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. …
COVID Modeling Demands Mean Big Storage Boost for IHME was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Incoming chief executive officer and long-time Intel employee Pat Gelsinger is talking the helm of a chip company that has plenty of issues to sort out, but there is some good news as Intel reports its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2020 and Gelsinger gets ready to take over. …
Intel’s Datacenter Decline Not As Bad As Expected was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is a given that high performance computing systems of any kind are going to need high performance storage to keep them fed. …
Storage Can’t Be An Afterthought With AI Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A little more than a week ago, Intel announced that Pat Gelsinger, its former chief technology officer and former manager of the predecessor of its Data Center Group as well as the current chief executive officer at server virtualization juggernaut VMware, would be returning to the world’s biggest chip maker to be its CEO and to take on the task of rescuing the company from itself and its competition. …
What Gelsinger Can Do To Unscrew Intel was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
With performance comparable to the Nvidia V100 GPU, a common accelerator in HPC but better energy consumption numbers and memory bandwidth potential, Graphcore can turn heads in supercomputing.
Graphcore IPU Put Through the Supercomputing Paces was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
It is never easy to blaze new trails in IT infrastructure due to specific, unique workload requirements. …
Optimization for Real-Time AI and Analytics Starts in the Datacenter was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
As we pointed out recently, there has been a certain amount of tumult and change in recent months in the Arm server processor space. …
Ampere Steams Ahead With Arm Server Chips was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In addition to covering momentum in the FPGA market overall, from the first inklings that compute acceleration could be a large opportunity to recent acquisitions of the two largest FPGA device makers by Intel and AMD, we have kept an eye on FPGA startups. …
What’s Next for FPGA Maker Achronix Post-IPO? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
One of the great things about the database market is that there are many different kinds of data and the problems that need to be addressed to store, organize, and query that data are also increasing with the speed and amount of data stored. …
Third Time Is The Charm For Nebula Graph Database was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
To catch a glimpse of the future of what memory devices and approaches will dominate the AI-centric datacenter, there are few better forecasters than Evangelos Eleftheriou. …
Storage Pioneer on What the Future Holds for In-Memory AI was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
For those are the intersection of AI hardware and software, the open source Apache TVM effort is already well known and used among a number of chipmakers as well as developers. …
A Skeleton Key for AI Hardware Experimentation was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
What a strange server CPU world we live in. The dozen or so biggest customers in the world command something on the order of 45 percent of the server CPU shipments, but significantly lower share of the revenue because of the volume discounts they can command, and they not only shape the product rollouts, their opinions can kill off processor SKUs long before we even know about them on announcement day. …
The Impending AMD Milan Versus Intel Ice Lake Server Showdown was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.