The in-person GPU Technical Conference held annually in San Jose may have been canceled in March thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, but behind the scenes Nvidia kept on pace with the rollout of its much-awaited “Ampere” GA100 GPU, which is finally being unveiled today. …
Nvidia Unifies AI Compute With “Ampere” GPU was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It seems much longer than just a couple of months ago when the spreading coronavirus outbreak began make its presence felt in the tech industry. …
Pandemic Shows The Value Of The Public Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Any company that holds more than a quarter of a market – by money or shipments – is doing pretty well. …
This Switcheroo Doesn’t Get Old was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Kamran Amini was an executive at IBM in the mid-2000s when the company first put AMD’s then-relatively new Opteron processors into some of its System x servers. …
Lenovo Goes Double Barrel With AMD “Rome” Epycs was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
It is no surprise that the key criteria that organizations look for when shopping for high performance computing storage is performance. …
Unveiling The Hidden Costs of HPC Storage was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
When Hewlett Packard Enterprise finally closed on its $1.3 billion acquisition of supercomputer maker Cray in September, it was just over a month after the US Department of Energy announced Cray had completed a sweep in the country’s initial push into the exascale computing era. …
HPE’s Ungaro On Delivering Exascale For The Masses was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Dell’s groundbreaking $67 billion acquisition of EMC in 2016 was heralded by the vendor as a way to bring together two top-tier IT vendors with highly complementary parts to create an organization that could essentially provide for whatever technology needs their customers might have. …
Dell Takes A Clean Sheet Approach To Flash Storage was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Last week, when we talked to Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer, Jensen Huang, about how the datacenter was becoming the unit of compute and in such a world networking was critical, it was obvious that acquiring Mellanox Technologies for $6.9 …
Hot On The Heels Of Mellanox, Nvidia Snaps Up Cumulus Networks was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
With much of the world in lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic, it is not a surprise that much of the attention that is being paid to Amazon’s financial results for the first quarter of 2020 focused on its online retail operation, which is literally a lifeline to many in the United States, and the massive warehousing and shipping infrastructure behind it. …
AWS Weathers The Coronavirus Storm was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
One of the common themes – and one could say even the main theme – of The Next Platform is that some of technologies developed by the high performance supercomputing centers (usually in conjunction with governments and academia), the hyperscalers, the big cloud builders, and a handful of big and innovative large enterprises eventually get hardened, commercialized, and pushed out into the larger mainstream of information technology. …
Mainstreaming Fast Flash Clusters For Fun And Profit was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We have said more than once in recent weeks that recessions accelerate technology transitions but they do not cause them. …
The Steady Patience Of AMD In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
This week is the eighth annual International Workshop on OpenCL, SYCL, Vulkan, and SPIR-V, and the event is available online for the very first time in its history thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. …
Programming In The Parallel Universe was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For all the talk of cloud computing for the past decade and a half, for all the growth that the hyperscale public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud have undergone in recent years, these are still the early days of the cloud. …
OpenShift, Kubernetes, And The Hybrid Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The deal for Nvidia to acquire Mellanox, which was announced last March for $6.9 …
Nvidia Plus Mellanox: Talking Datacenter Architecture With Jensen Huang was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Normally, supercomputers installed at academic and national laboratories get configured once, acquired as quickly as possible before the money runs out, installed and tested, qualified for use, and put to work for a four or five or possibly longer tour of duty. …
One Supercomputer’s HPC And AI Battle Against The Coronavirus was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The first half of last year was relatively weak for Intel’s Data Center Group last year, but despite the coronavirus pandemic – and in some cases, we think because of it – the world’s largest datacenter chip manufacturer is looking to not only have a good first quarter, as it just turned in, but could see growth across its various data-centric businesses well into the second half of the year. …
Pandemic Compute Needs Drive Intel’s Data Center Group was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Security has always been important for datacenter operators, but the days of putting a ring of protection around the datacenter and then walking away satisfied in the knowledge that the data and applications therein were protected from outside forces are long over. …
Locking Down Linux For The Enterprise was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The European Union has made it clear that it wants to be able to stand on its own two feet in the design of server processors, for both general purpose uses and for exascale-class supercomputers. …
Drilling Down Into The SiPearl European Arm Server Chip was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In the early days of GPU-accelerated supercomputers, accelerators were installed with the mission of delivering ultra-high performance for a few select codes. …
The GPU “Expanse”: HPC Acceleration for the Masses was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
When IBM announced that it was acquiring Red Hat for $34 billion eighteen months ago, one of the things we said that Big Blue needed most and would get from taking over – but not messing with – the world’s largest commercial open source software company was a coherent story that it could tell to its customers about how IBM, which more than any other company helped define data processing, was still relevant to the future. …
The Next IBM Platform, Revisited was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.