After toiling away in relative obscurity for over a decade, open source Julia is right on time for the big enterprise AI/ML code modernization party.
Why Julia is Turning Heads in 2021 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
When chip makers launch the latest additions of their datacenter processors, server OEMs have historically immediately or soon after followed with a rollout of the latest new or enhanced systems based on those offerings. …
Designing Servers In Rapidly Changing Times was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Like many system architects the world over, we had high hopes for the 3D XPoint variant of phase change memory (PCM) when it launched with much fanfare back in July 2015 after being developed jointly by Intel and Micron Technology for many, many years. …
3D XPoint Memory At The Crossroads was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
One of the main tenets of the hyperscalers and cloud builders is that they buy what they can and they only build what they must. …
Can Graviton Win A Three-Way Compute Race At AWS? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Every chipmaker has an emerging silicon photonics story but as happens only rarely, it could be a small startup that will push them to productize faster. …
Lightmatter Normalizing Silicon Photonics for AI was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
It has been a long time – more than 15 years – since AMD has been in a position to pressure larger rival Intel in supplying processors to server OEMs and ODMs for the datacenter. …
AMD’s Top Brass Take Another Swing At Intel With Milan Epycs was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Managing infrastructure at Google is a lot more than just putting stuff into containers and letting Borg push it around. …
Keeping Infrastructure And Applications Humming Along Like Google was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
With every passing year, as AMD first talked about its plans to re-enter the server processor arena and give Intel some real, much needed, and very direct competition and then delivered again and again on its processor roadmap, it has gotten easier and easier to justify spending at least some of the server CPU budget with Intel’s archrival in the X86 computing arena. …
The Third Time Charm Of AMD’s Milan Epyc Processors was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Cybersecurity has never been easy. As the amount of business being done on the internet has grown, enterprises, smaller businesses, HPC institutions and other organizations have had to develop and embrace technologies designed to protect mission-critical data and applications from an increasingly sophisticated underworld of hackers, nation-states and other cyber-criminals. …
Taking On DARPA’s FHE Security Challenge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Having to install a new kind of systems software stack and create applications is hard enough. …
Tuning Up Nvidia’s AI Stack To Run On Virtual Infrastructure was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
There is nothing wrong with buying a compute, storage, or networking appliance where the ASICs and software both come from the same supplier. …
Cisco Fights The Merchant Network Chip Makers On Their Own Turf was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The concepts underpinning vector databases are decades old, but it is only relatively recently that these are the underlying “secret weapon” of the largest webscale companies that provide services like search and near real-time recommendations. …
It’s Time to Start Paying Attention to Vector Databases was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
We took a look recently at the compute engines at the heart of the future – and as yet unnanmed – Sunway exascale system that will be installed at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, China. …
The Nitty Gritty Of The Sunway Exascale System Network And Storage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There are a lot of new technologies that are available now or are going to be available shortly that have the potential to radically change the compute, memory, and storage hierarchies in systems. …
Livermore Converges A Slew Of New Ideas For Exascale Storage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The various life-extension technologies that will keep disk at the forefront of some of the largest storage installations are working–and keeping disk’s largest consumers, like Dropbox, around for long haul…
When it comes to exascale storage capacity, the national labs have nothing on Dropbox. …
Why Dropbox’s Exascale Strategy Is Long-Term, On-Prem Disk was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
We have a bad case of the silicon shakes and a worsening deficiency in iron here at The Next Platform, but the good news is that new CPU processors from AMD and Intel are imminent, and more processors are expected later this year from IBM and Ampere Computing, too. …
Ladies And Gentlemen, Start Your Compute Engines was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We have a good sense of what projects U.S. companies open source but when it comes to Chinese webscale companies, most notably the big three—Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent—that ecosystem is less public and not often discussed. …
China’s Hyperscalers Strive to Keep Pace in Open Source was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Flexibility is a kind of strength. It is just more subtle than brute force. …
The Future Of Infrastructure Is Fluid was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Seismic processing and analysis at scale take scalable HPC resources but also need an analytics backend that can scale with massive datasets. …
ConocoPhillips Sparks Tooling For Seismic HPC, Cloud, AI/ML was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has been building a mainstream and grassroots server business aimed at large enterprises, HPC centers, and academic and government institutions for two decades. …
Changing Of The Guard For HPC And Big Iron At HPE was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.