Open source hardware is something that is intellectually satisfying as well as economically rewarding, but it is clearly now something for everyone. …
Still Open For Business After All These Years was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is hard to remember sometimes way back when, in 2008, when Nvidia first took a stab at GPU compute in the datacenter with the original Tesla GPU accelerators and a very rudimentary CUDA programming environment for offloading parallel algorithms from CPUs to GPUs. …
Before Long, Datacenter Will Be Nvidia’s Biggest Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A year ago, Dell Technologies made a significant push deeper into the fast-growing hybrid cloud space, unveiling its Dell Technologies Cloud initiative that includes hybrid cloud platforms that take advantage of the tight integration of technologies from Dell and VMware, which is majority owned by the larger company. …
Google And Dell Pave The Way For File Data In The Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
There are many things the U.S. government can do, but innovating at a rapid pace in the ever-evolving world of artificial intelligence is not necessarily one of them. …
What Could Stifle American AI Innovation? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Let’s face it. There is nothing simple about large-scale sequencing and targeted analysis of genomic data. …
For UK Genomics Initiative, Compute is the Easy Part was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
One reason we’re watching Lawrence Livermore National Lab closely is because they are at the forefront when it comes to blending emerging HPC, deep learning, and edge technologies for applications that are representative of what’s next. …
Where AI Might Fit in the Supercomputers of 2030 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Supercomputers are designed for a number of big jobs that can only be done by massively powerful machinery, and one of those jobs has been the modeling of chemical compounds and biological systems, often in concert to model diseases and to help find cures for them. …
With Fugaku Supercomputer Installed, RIKEN Takes On Coronavirus was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Artificial intelligence is a broad area, covering diverse fields such as image recognition, natural language processing (NLP), and robotics. …
The Next Wave Of AI Is Even Bigger was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.
The hyperscalers and cloud builders have been setting the pace for innovation in the server arena for the past decade or so, particularly and publicly since Facebook set up the Open Compute Project in April 2011 and ramping up as Microsoft joined up in early 2014 and basically created a whole new server innovation stream that was unique from – and largely incompatible with – the designs put out by Facebook. …
Inside Facebook’s Future Rack And Microserver Iron was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A new CPU or GPU compute engine is always an exciting time for the datacenter because we get to see the results of years of work and clever thinking by hardware and software engineers who are trying to break through barriers with both their Dennard scaling and their Moore’s Law arms tied behind their backs. …
Ampere DGX Servers Pack A Wallop, Including AMD Epyc CPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The in-person GPU Technical Conference held annually in San Jose may have been canceled in March thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, but behind the scenes Nvidia kept on pace with the rollout of its much-awaited “Ampere” GA100 GPU, which is finally being unveiled today. …
Nvidia Unifies AI Compute With “Ampere” GPU was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It seems much longer than just a couple of months ago when the spreading coronavirus outbreak began make its presence felt in the tech industry. …
Pandemic Shows The Value Of The Public Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Any company that holds more than a quarter of a market – by money or shipments – is doing pretty well. …
This Switcheroo Doesn’t Get Old was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Kamran Amini was an executive at IBM in the mid-2000s when the company first put AMD’s then-relatively new Opteron processors into some of its System x servers. …
Lenovo Goes Double Barrel With AMD “Rome” Epycs was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
It is no surprise that the key criteria that organizations look for when shopping for high performance computing storage is performance. …
Unveiling The Hidden Costs of HPC Storage was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
When Hewlett Packard Enterprise finally closed on its $1.3 billion acquisition of supercomputer maker Cray in September, it was just over a month after the US Department of Energy announced Cray had completed a sweep in the country’s initial push into the exascale computing era. …
HPE’s Ungaro On Delivering Exascale For The Masses was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Dell’s groundbreaking $67 billion acquisition of EMC in 2016 was heralded by the vendor as a way to bring together two top-tier IT vendors with highly complementary parts to create an organization that could essentially provide for whatever technology needs their customers might have. …
Dell Takes A Clean Sheet Approach To Flash Storage was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Last week, when we talked to Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer, Jensen Huang, about how the datacenter was becoming the unit of compute and in such a world networking was critical, it was obvious that acquiring Mellanox Technologies for $6.9 …
Hot On The Heels Of Mellanox, Nvidia Snaps Up Cumulus Networks was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
With much of the world in lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic, it is not a surprise that much of the attention that is being paid to Amazon’s financial results for the first quarter of 2020 focused on its online retail operation, which is literally a lifeline to many in the United States, and the massive warehousing and shipping infrastructure behind it. …
AWS Weathers The Coronavirus Storm was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
One of the common themes – and one could say even the main theme – of The Next Platform is that some of technologies developed by the high performance supercomputing centers (usually in conjunction with governments and academia), the hyperscalers, the big cloud builders, and a handful of big and innovative large enterprises eventually get hardened, commercialized, and pushed out into the larger mainstream of information technology. …
Mainstreaming Fast Flash Clusters For Fun And Profit was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.