AMD has picked up yet another big supercomputer win with the selection of its second-generation Epyc processors, aka Rome, as the compute engine for the ARCHER2 system to be installed at the University of Edinburgh next year. …
AMD CPUs Will Power UK’s Next-Generation ARCHER2 Supercomputer was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
Red Hat is coming onto IBM’s books at just the right time, and to be honest, it might have been better for Big Blue if the deal to acquire the world’s largest supplier of support and packaging services for open source software had closed maybe one or two quarters ago. …
The Potential Of Red Hat Plus Power Is Larger Than Exascale was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There is little doubt that solid state disks have become a disruptive force for datacenter storage and have bright future. …
Hard Disks Give New Technologies a Spin was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
The vast swathes of unstructured data that now reside in the cloud has changed the nature of information technology in many ways. …
The Unlikely Marriage of Databases and Object Storage was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
IBM, through the work of Edgar Codd, invented the ideas behind the relational database back in 1970. …
Is Amazon’s Database Strategy A Glimpse Into The Future? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The European Exascale Processor Memory Node Design (ExaNoDe) project has wrapped up, delivering a prototype multi-chip-module (MCM) that integrates Arm cores, FPGAs, and 3D active interposer/chiplet technology. …
Europeans Add 3D Integration To Exascale Technology Stack was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
Moore’s Law might be slowing down CPU compute capacity increases in recent years, but the innovation has been coming at a steady drumbeat for the interconnects used inside servers and between nodes in distributed computing systems. …
PCI-Express Steps Up To The Bandwidth Challenge was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Hybrid cloud is gaining traction as organizations seek to realize the flexibility and scale of a joint public and on-premises model of IT provisioning while also changing the way their compute and storage infrastructure is funded, transferring costs from a capital expense (capex) to an operating expense (opex). …
Automation And Policy Drive Optimal Hybrid Cloud Spending was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Back in 2016, we wrote a column about the rise of data-centric computing. …
Staying Afloat In The Coming Data Deluge was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Most people in the IT community tend to their fields, making their living in their patches, but there are some who change the landscape, and still fewer who do it again and again. …
Point To Point In The Datacenter With Andy Bechtolsheim was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
After more than two decades with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Darren Cepulis came to Arm in 2013, becoming part of the small cadre of people working in the chip designer’s high-performance computing (HPC) business. …
Growing Up In An HPC World was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Say what you will about the ruthless dominance of hyperscale companies, but they are managing to propel information technology at a rate, and in ways, that the enterprise and high performance computing markets can only dream of. …
Switch Silicon To Relieve Choke Points In Servers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As readers of The Next Platform know, the edge – that area where the rapidly growing numbers of mobile, intelligent and connected devices live, running applications and generating mountains of data – is where a lot of the IT action is these days. …
Pushing Security From The Datacenter Out To The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Living in the future, as we do now, you no longer have to expend huge amounts of capital to build a petaflops-scale supercomputer. …
Cloudy Supercomputers Join the HPC Petascale Club was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For more than two decades, DirectData Networks has focused on HPC storage, supplying large systems to enterprises and research institutions wrestling with complex and data-laden workloads and taking on such challenges as acquiring the Lustre File System from Intel in 2018. …
DDN Uses Acquisitions to Grow In The Enterprise was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
For more than a decade, the ease and elasticity of cloud storage has slowly been drawing enterprise users away from their beloved in-house datacenters. …
Cloud Storage: More Than Instant Gratification and Near Infinite Scale was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
One of the temptations of IT companies that skate on the cutting edge is that they get enamored with their own inventions, forgetting that customers are a lot more interested in practical solutions than whiz-bang technology. …
Building A File System That’s Primed for the Times was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
Storage hierarchies just aren’t what they used to be.
In the good old days, you stored files on hard disk or magnetic tape. …
Deepening Storage Hierarchies Spark New Set of Challenges was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
The storage landscape is being transformed thanks to the introduction of technologies like NVM-Express, and newer types of non-volatile memory (NVM). …
Get Used to the Ever-Expanding Storage Hierarchy was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
Perhaps the biggest task that processor and system designers have to wrestle with these days is how to keep heavily cored and massively threaded processors fed with data. …
Accelerating Compute By Cramming It Into DRAM Memory was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.