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.
In the coming weeks and months, particularly as we are entering the financial reporting season for the first quarter of 2020, we are naturally going to be looking for any good news we can find. …
The Big Will Get Bigger Because We Need Them To was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If we are ever going to know what affect the coronavirus pandemic has had on the IT sector, we have to keep track of what was going on before the outbreak started to hit us hard in the first quarter of 2020. …
The Outlook For Infrastructure Is Cloudy – In A Good Way was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As the dominant supplier of commercial-grade open source infrastructure software, Red Hat sets the pace and it is not a surprise that IBM was willing to shell out an incredible $34 billion to acquire the company. …
How Edge Is Different From Cloud – And Not was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A collaboration of researchers from the University of California Davis, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, and Intel are working together on the DisCo project to extract insight from complex unlabeled data. …
Python Delivers Big On Complex Unlabeled Data was written by Rob Farber at The Next Platform.
One size definitely does not fit all workloads and one budget when it comes to server processors. …
AMD Cranks The Rome Clocks, Keeping The Heat On Intel was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Several years ago, the HPC systems designed for wide-ranging scientific computing were quite a bit different than those built for intense scalability and maximum peak performance. …
Building Innovative HPC for Massively Mixed Workloads was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Since late February and early March, when the coronavirus outbreak began to spill out of China in earnest and spread its sickness and death across Europe, throughout the United States, and into other parts of the globe, IT companies have stepped up to lend their technologies to fight the pandemic. …
Graphing The Coronavirus Pandemic was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The hyperscalers and the largest public clouds have been on the front end of each successive network bandwidth wave for more than a decade, and it only stands to reason that they, rather than the IEEE, would want to drive the standards for faster Ethernet networks. …
Hyperscalers Set The Pace For 800G Ethernet was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
VMware burst onto the datacenter scene a little more than a decade ago, during the last big recession, when server virtualization appeared at exactly the right time when server spending was going to be seriously curtailed by economic forces. …
Following The Network To The Cloud And Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Over the last few years the idea of “conditional computation” has been key to making neural network processing more efficient, even though much of the hardware ecosystem has focused on general purpose approaches that rely on matrix math operations that brute force the problem instead of selectively operate on only the required pieces. …
Changing Conditions for Neural Network Processing was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.