There isn’t really a systems business so much as a collection of them, all unique and all facing their own particular challenges. …
Big Blue Should Start Believing In Big Iron Again was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There is such a thing as a string of bad luck, but we have always believed that luck is the residue of design, either good or bad. …
Intel Tests Its Datacenter Teflon With 7 Nanometer Delay was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
On Next Platform TV today we cover several bases, from cost-optimizing GPU types in cloud environments, to calculating storage TCO with downtime in the mix, and also some straight talk about the viability of quantum computing in healthcare with one expert’s view followed by a separate interview focused on financial services. …
Next Platform TV for July 23, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Networks may not be the most expensive thing in the datacenter – they typically comprise about 10 percent to 15 percent of the cost of a distributed system, including cables, transceivers, switches, and routers – but they are without a doubt the most complex part of distributed systems. …
One Network Operating System To Rule Them All was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
On today’s program we talk with Nvidia co-founder, Chris Malachowsky alongside University of Florida Provost and VP, Joe Glover, about a sizable AI investment; we focus on an end-user Kubernetes journey through the lens of telematics giant, ABAX; we talk AI in manufacturing (where it is today versus what is hyped) with Brian McCarson of Intel; and for today’s Rapid Insights segment we talk quantum for the utilities industry with IEEE pro, Carmen Fontana. …
Next Platform TV for July 21, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Join The Next Platform on August 27, 2020 for a day of in-depth interviews on a wide range of topics related to cutting-edge database trends. …
TOMORROW: The Next Database Platform was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Four years ago, VMware and Amazon Web Services announced a partnership in which VMware customers would be able to run their virtualized data center environments on AWS instances. …
The Growing Dependence Of VMware On AWS was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
On today’s program we talk AI chip innovations with Graphcore co-founder and CEO, Nigel Toon, tap into the Barcelona Supercomputing Center to talk Arm server performance, check in with Sandia for brain-inspired computing advances; talk HDD technologies that keep disk relevant, and also discuss RISC-V with the foundation’s CEO. …
Next Platform TV for July 16, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Let’s leave aside all the questions about the long-term viability of AI ASICs and appliances and focus instead on the beauty of a good architecture. …
The Elegance (And Limitations Of) Precisely Engineered Accelerators was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
To Patricia Harris – like most people in the rapidly changing worlds of IT and business – data is central to what she does. …
Squeezing Every Drop Of Value Out Of Data was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
A wide-ranging program for you today with everything from neuromorphic hardware and software research; some impressive FPGA acceleration for Caffe from Samsung AI Research; why the datacenter industry is booming (the answers might surprise you); the state of Lustre and OpenSFS; and where some unique opportunities are in HPC on the pandemic modeling front. …
Next Platform TV for July 14, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
With all of us now learning to live, work, and learn from home, it is becoming apparent how critical video streaming is as a tool to support our new normal. …
Get The Picture With Video Acceleration In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As we’ve talked about in the past, the focus on data – how much is being generated, where it’s being created, the tools needed to take advantage of it, the shortage of skilled talent to manage it, and so on – is rapidly changing the way enterprises are operating both in the datacenter and in the cloud and dictating many of the product roadmaps being developed by tech vendors. …
An Architecture for Artificial Intelligence Storage was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
From Arm server chip market and technology momentum to the future of spin wave computing, as well as some insight about current situation and subsequent (too quick?) …
Next Platform TV for July 9, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Welcome to Next Platform TV for today, July 7, 2020.
We are featuring an in-depth interview with Dr. …
Next Platform TV for July 7, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Storage is perhaps one of the thorniest issues in computing, whether you are looking at an enterprise datacenter or an HPC environment. …
Bringing The Enterprise SAN Into The Cloud Era was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.
Huge dataset sizes and computationally intense demands of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) workloads are motivating some organizations to seek highly elastic HPC solutions with enormous memory volumes. …
Puffing Up Computational Fluid Dynamics On The Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Thanks for tuning into Next Platform TV for today, July 1. …
Next Platform TV for July 1, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Earlier this month, we were talking to the James Kulina, the new executive director of the OpenPower Foundation, which is the organization created by IBM and Google back in the summer of 2013 to create a community around the Power architecture. …
Big Blue Open Sources The Core Inside BlueGene/Q Supercomputers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The term “general purpose” in regards to compute is an evolving one. …
The New General And New Purpose In Computing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.