The first crop of exascale supercomputers in the United States will be powered by some of the most computationally dense hardware ever assembled. …
Exascale Density Pushes The Boundaries Of Cooling was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
The profit pools in datacenter infrastructure are a bit like oases in the desert: There are a lot of miles between them, and some of them turn out to be mirages. …
Holding The Line In The Enterprise was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is funny to think that in a certain light, AMD has Big Blue to thank for its resurgence in the datacenter. …
Talking System Architecture With AMD CTO Mark Papermaster was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
According to Hyperion Research, 2018 was a banner year for the high performance computing industry. …
New Applications, More Users Drive Bright Outlook for HPC was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
When it comes to energy-efficient supercomputing, sometimes less is more. That was illustrated this week by Fujitsu with its A64FX prototype, which captured the top spot on the Green500 list. …
Arm Supercomputer Captures The Energy Efficiency Crown was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
We are not shy of playing guessing games here at The Next Platform, as you all well know. …
Doing The Math On Future Exascale Supercomputers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is now pretty much assured that the first three pre-exascale systems being installed in the European Union will not be powered by processors being developed under the European Processor Initiative (EPI). …
First European Pre-Exascale Supercomputers Forgo Homegrown CPUs was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
Arm server development is a reality and a growing one at that. …
Has Arm Discovered the Ecosystem Keys? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
As GPU-accelerated servers go, Nvidia’s DGX-2 box is hard to beat. …
Speeding I/O for Multi-GPU Clusters was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Microsoft Azure has been able to put actual Cray XC series supercomputers and CS Storm clusters in the public cloud for more than two years now, and it is unclear how many companies have commissioned Cray, now part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, to do so. …
Public Cloud Giants Fight For HPC Supremacy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The one thing that AMD’s return to the CPU market and its more aggressive moves in the GPU compute arena have done, as well as Intel’s plan to create a line of discrete Xe GPUs that can be used as companions to its Xeon processors, has done is push Nvidia and Arm closer together. …
Nvidia Arms Up Server OEMs And ODMs For Hybrid Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The latest list of the world’s top 500 floppiest supercomputers was released this week and the biggest news to report is that there is almost no news to report. …
The Calm Before The Exascale Storm was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
The days when the X86 processor could do just about every kind of processing in the datacenter are gone. …
The Four Workhorses Of The Data Apocalypse was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The datacenter business at Nvidia hit a rough patch a little less than a year ago, but it is starting to pick up again after a few quarters of declines and may soon be in positive growth territory. …
The Datacenter Starts To Perk Up For Nvidia was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Stranded capacity has always been the biggest waste in the datacenter, and over the years, we have added more and more clever kinds of virtualization – hardware partitions, virtual machines and their hypervisors, and containers – as well as the systems management tools that exploit them. …
It Takes Liquidity To Make Infrastructure Fluid was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center has launched the European Laboratory for Open Computer Architecture (LOCA), a five-year effort aimed at developing energy efficient, high performance computing chips based on open architectures. …
Europe Opens Second Front For Domestic HPC Processors was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
At this year’s Intel AI Summit, the chipmaker demonstrated its first-generation Neural Network Processors (NNP): NNP-T for training and NNP-I for inference. …
Intel Throws Down AI Gauntlet With Neural Network Chips was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Traditional datacenter infrastructure suppliers have a complicated relationship with the cloud. …
Putting On Demand Price Tags On Datacenter Gear was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
There are many good processors out there, but there are few that are excellent and elegant inasmuch as they are co-designed for specific workloads and then do them very well. …
A64FX Arm Chip Gets A Big Push From Cray was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When you are always looking for what platform architecture will be mainstream, you have to look at what those on the bleeding edge are doing to see what the leading edge might do, which in turn tells you what everyone else might eventually do. …
Oil And Gas Giants Build Up Their Strategic GPU Reserves was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.