Not every HPC or analytics workload – meaning an algorithmic solver and the data that it chews on – fits nicely in a 128 GB or 256 GB or even a 512 GB memory space, and sometimes the dataset is quite large and runs best with a larger memory space rather than carving it up into smaller pieces and distributing across nodes with the same amount of raw compute. …
Sometimes HPC Means Big Memory, Not Big Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you think HPC architectures have changed rapidly in recent years, brace yourself for the future when things will be moving at light speed. …
Ayar Labs Brings National Lab Architects And Industry Leaders Together To Talk Disaggregation was written by Elyse Silverberg at The Next Platform.
These days, whenever a research firm or industry leader outlines its vision for the future of enterprise technology, edge computing is almost always one of the central trends. …
On The Edge With NVM-Express And Object Storage was written by Gary Ogasawara at The Next Platform.
Is the inclusion of specialized matrix engines in general-purpose processors truly motivated and merited, or is the silicon better invested in other parts?
What’s Really Motivating the Matrix Engine Movement in HPC? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
When it comes to data-intensive supercomputing, few centers have the challenges Pawsey Supercomputing Centre faces. …
Pawsey Finds I/O Sweet Spots for Data-Intensive Supercomputing was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
If hardware doesn’t scale well, either up into a more capacious shared memory system or out across a network of modestly powered nodes, there isn’t much you can do about it. …
Where Latency Is Key And Throughput Is Of Value was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Standing out in the crowded server inference space is getting more difficult, especially at this late stage of the startup game. …
Server Inference Chip Startup Untethered from AI Data Movement was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
As an engineering director leading research projects into the application of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) to computational software for electronic design automation (EDA), I believe I have a unique perspective on the future of the electronic and electronic design industries. …
Machine Learning for Future System Designs was written by Elias Fallon at The Next Platform.
If you can’t beat the cloud, you had better steal all of its best ideas. …
Like Other OEM Incumbents, Cisco Steals The Cloud Playbook was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Maximizing the aggregate amount of compute that can be brought to bear for any given pile of money is what traditional high performance computing is all about. …
For HPC And AI, Composability Might Trump Cheap Flops was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The rumors were right, and AMD president and chief executive officer Lisa Su is indeed printing out a tower of stock to acquire FPGA maker Xilinx for what amounts to about $35 billion and, as it turns out, she is relinquishing her position as president to Victor Peng, chief executive at Xilinx, to close the deal. …
AMD Girds For Compute War With Xilinx Deal was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When it comes to traditional HPC, it has taken a bit longer for cloud and AI to catch on. …
What the Geospatial Industry is Learning About HPC, AI, and Cloud was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Everyone in the networking industry seems to fall into one of two camps: those that have used server-based routing software and those that have no idea such a thing exists. …
FRR: The Most Popular Network Router You’ve Never Heard Of was written by Peter Lumbris at The Next Platform.
Somewhere nearly a decade ago, we made a joke when looking at the rise of the hyperscalers and cloud builders. …
Intel Needs To Engineer Its Financial Future was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The long-held skepticism around wafer-scale architectures is deep and goes back decades. …
Is There a Wafer-Scale Revolution on the Horizon? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Success in any endeavor is not just about having the right idea, but having that idea at the right time and then executing well against that plan. …
The Resurrection Of Cray And AMD In A Trifurcating HPC Space was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As we at The Next Platform have talked about before, the once-clear line of delineation that has run between the hyperscale cloud services providers and the OEMs that for decades has made the systems for enterprise datacenters has faded. …
Dell Climbs To The Apex Of The Hybrid Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
We have argued, even a decade and a half before The Next Platform was founded, that no one would ever move all of their IT infrastructure to a utility, what we now call a public cloud. …
At Its Heart, IBM Remains A Systems Company was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The more things change, the more they stay the same in HPC storage. …
Divide Deepens Between HPC and Enterprise Storage was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
For more than a year, Dell Technologies has been putting together the pieces of its hybrid cloud strategy, a combination of its own hardware – in particular, the VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure appliance – and software and VMware technologies, including its VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) platform and, more recently, the virtualization vendor’s Tanzu, a platform for Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native applications. …
Blurring The Lines Between Your Cloud And Their Clouds was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.