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.
It is a rare HPC cluster that is actually upgraded – meaning some of the components in the servers or the networks or the storage that comprise the system are swapped out somewhere about halfway through its lifecycle and replaced with cheaper, faster, or more capacious components. …
The HPC Community Should Lead In Composability was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The importance of achieving exascale computing has been discussed at great length in this publication and elsewhere. …
Tooling Up For Exascale was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
The Next Platform has been tracking momentum with FPGAs over the last several years with particular emphasis on the role programmable devices will continue to play in application acceleration as well as in computational storage and modern datacenter networks. …
What is The Next FPGA Platform? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
For those who have expressed concern about the slow pace of Arm’s adoption in HPC, Brent Gorda is advocating the need for patience. …
Arm’s Methodical March to HPC Adoption was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
There is much at stake in the world of datacenter inference and while the market has not yet decided its winners, there are finally some new metrics in the bucket to aid decision-making. …
MLPerf Inference Results Offer Glimpse into AI Chip Performance was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
For much of the decade, a debate around Arm was whether it would fulfill its promise to become a silicon designer with suppliers of any significance to datacenter hardware. …
Attacking The Datacenter From The Edge Inward was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Companies who offer software-defined products, by definition, rely on hardware providers in order to offer something useful to customers. …
Qumulo Eyes More OEMs As It Refreshes HPE Partnership was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
The memory and I/O wall are arguably the two most intractable bottlenecks in the modern datacenter. …
Backs Up Against The Memory And I/O Walls was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
The Forschungszentrum Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC) in Germany will soon be home to Europe’s first D-Wave quantum computer. …
D-Wave Takes Quantum Leap in Europe was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
The consensus is growing among the big datacenter operators of the world that CPU cores are such a precious commodity that they should never do network, storage, or hypervisor housekeeping work but rather focus on the core computation that they are really acquired to do. …
Hypercalers Lead The Way To The Future With SmartNICs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
At some point, when the Epyc server CPU and Radeon Instinct GPU accelerator businesses are more substantial, AMD will probably be a lot less opaque about how its datacenter business is doing. …
AMD’s Datacenter Business Breaks Through $1 Billion Run Rate was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Supercomputer-maker Cray has launched the ClusterStor E1000, a storage offering designed to serve the entire triumvirate of HPC workloads: simulations, artificial intelligence, and analytics. …
Cray Revamps ClusterStor For The Exascale Era was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
A few years ago, about two dozen Oracle employees began work in downtown office space in Seattle to start mapping out how to make the enterprise software giant and occasional system maker a competitive player in a crowded public cloud space that is dominated by the likes of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, and also includes a host of other high-profile companies, from Google to Salesforce to IBM. …
Oracle Chases A Huge HPC Opportunity In The Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
It’s par for the course for AI chip startups to focus on peak performance on outdated benchmarks to appeal to the hardware folks who might give their gear a go for deep learning training or inference. …
Deep Divides Between AI Chip Startups, Developers was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Magneto-resistive random access memory (MRAM) is one of those technologies that is often talked about as having the potential to change the computer memory landscape. …
When Persistence Is A Virtue, MRAM Is An Alternative To DRAM And SRAM was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
The fundamental advantage of using cloud services to deliver IT resources needed to support daily business operations is the flexibility they allow: on demand applications and instant infrastructure that can be ordered, provisioned, and delivered in minutes without the delays often involved in submitting equivalent requests to internal IT departments or waiting for suitable on-premise architecture to be implemented and configured. …
Reining In And Optimizing Cloud Spending was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Micron has a habit of building interesting research prototypes that offer a vague hope of commercialization for the sheer purpose of learning how to make its own memory and storage subsystem approaches more tuned to next generation applications. …
Why Micron is Getting into the AI Accelerator Business was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
In the early years of Amazon Web Services, the collection of compute, storage, networking, and platform services (database, analytics, and such) were so good that Amazon, its parent company, did not have to spend a lot of money on sales and marketing to get startups to flock in droves to this public cloud to use it as their computing platform. …
AWS Invests In Iron And People To Court Enterprises was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
After two and a half quarters of tightening the purse strings, the world’s largest consumers of infrastructure – the eight major hyperscalers and cloud builders – plus their peers in the adjacent communications service provider space all started spending money on servers and storage again, and Intel can breathe a sigh of relief as it works to get its 10 nanometer manufacturing on track for the delivery of “Ice Lake” Xeon SP processors sometime in the second half of next year. …
Hyperscalers And Cloud Builders Resume Their Spending Spree was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.