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.
While there are plenty of distributed applications that are going to chew through the hundreds of gigabits per second of bandwidth per port that modern Ethernet or InfiniBand ASICs deliver inside of switches, there are still others that might benefit from having a more streamlined stack that is also more malleable and composable. …
A New Twist On PCI-Express Switching For The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Big Blue has become a big believer in using differential signaling to attach everything – and we mean everything – to the processor. …
IBM Readies Power9 “Bandwidth Beast” Kicker was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It has been eight years since Arm announced its intentions to enter the server arena. …
Arm’s Chances In Servers May Hinge On Success In HPC was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
Bringing a new switch ASIC to market is no easy task, and it isn’t cheap, either. …
Innovium Boosts Switch Chip Performance Without A Process Shrink was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
D-Wave Systems is getting ready to roll out its next quantum annealing computer, a system that will encompass more than 5,000 low-noise qubits, as well as a new topology to connect them. …
Quantum Annealing Advances Woven Into Next-Gen D-Wave System was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
The ongoing journey to bring more enterprise high-performance computing (HPC) workloads into the cloud has been a bumpy one with its share of roadblocks and setbacks. …
HPC Eases Its Way Into The Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Good news is continuing to gather around AMD’s second-generation “Rome” Epyc processors. …
AMD Rome Epyc Processor Shatters Numeric Benchmarks was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
The European Exascale System InterconNect and Storage (ExaNeSt) project has wrapped up, having completed development of its prototype system and run a series of application benchmarks on it. …
Europeans Push FPGA-Powered Exascale Prototype Out the Door was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
It has been two decades since Juniper Networks, then the big upstart rival to Cisco Systems and others as the dot-com boom was rising towards its crescendo several years hence, took FreeBSD Unix and turned it into a network operating system that spanned both routers and switches. …
When Diverse Network ASICs Meet A Unifying Operating System was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Public clouds bring a lot of advantages to enterprises, such as more flexibility and scalability for their many of their workloads, a way to avoid expensive capital costs by using someone else’s infrastructure and having someone else manage it all, and the ability to pay only for the resources they use. …
One Service Mesh To Tie Google Anthos Together was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
AMD is definitely on a roll in the United States for future exascale systems, having won deals at both Oak Ridge National laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for their respective “Frontier” and “El Capitan” systems. …
AMD Revs Up HPC Variant As Rome Chips Ramp was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Arm Holdings has announced that the next revision of its ArmV8-A architecture will include support for bfloat16, a floating point format that is increasingly being used to accelerate machine learning applications. …
Arm Adds Muscle To Machine Learning, Embraces Bfloat16 was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
The dividing lines between system buses, system intraconnects, and system interconnects are getting more blurry all the time. …
Eating The Interconnect Alphabet Soup With Intel’s CXL was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We talked recently about the addition of new layers of performance in the storage stack and how users and storage architects are trying to make most effective use of those. …
Rumors of Disk’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.