The Jellyfish-Inspired Database Under AWS Block Storage
If you want inspiration for a hyperscale, resilient distributed block storage service, apparently a jellyfish is a good place to start looking for architectural features. …
The Jellyfish-Inspired Database Under AWS Block Storage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Where Portable AI Training Makes Sense
It is rare to find a story here at The Next Platform that does not focus on systems for large-scale use cases. …
Where Portable AI Training Makes Sense was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The Datacenter Has An Appetite For GPU Compute
It is not inconceivable, but probably also not very likely, that the datacenter business at GPU juggernaut Nvidia could at some point in the next one, two, or three years equal that of the core and foundational gaming sector. …
The Datacenter Has An Appetite For GPU Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Softer Side Of Exascale
When talking about high-end HPC systems in the world, much of the attention often is paid to the massive supercomputers that are being developed by the likes of system makers Cray (now part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the main contractor on two exascale systems), Fujitsu, Atos, IBM, and others along with component makers Intel (which is a primary contractor on one exascale system), AMD, and Nvidia. …
The Softer Side Of Exascale was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The Hyperconvergence Of Virtual Machines And Containers
No platform can be everything to everybody. And while there are plenty of organizations that operate at scale who create their own platforms, often using best of breed components, there are some that – perhaps because of the experience of constantly cobbling together systems into platforms – just do not want to do the experimenting and testing and weaving. …
The Hyperconvergence Of Virtual Machines And Containers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Going Beyond Exascale Computing
One thing is certain: The explosion of data creation in our society will continue as far as pundits and anyone else can forecast. …
Going Beyond Exascale Computing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sometimes The Road To Petaflops Is Paved With Gold And Platinum
Supercomputing, with a few exceptions, is a shared resource that is allocated to users in a particular field or geography to run their simulations and models on systems that are much larger than they might otherwise be able to buy on their own. …
Sometimes The Road To Petaflops Is Paved With Gold And Platinum was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Throwing Down The Gauntlet To CPU Incumbents
The server processor market has gotten a lot more crowded in the past several years, which is great for customers and which has made it both better and tougher for those that are trying to compete with industry juggernaut Intel. …
Throwing Down The Gauntlet To CPU Incumbents was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Time For A Compute Rematch Between The FPGA And The GPU
For any given compute engine, there is the vendor who makes the chip and therefore a lot of the money and then there are the downstream system architects, system integrators, original design manufacturers, and original equipment manufacturers who add further value to that compute engine in one form or another and make their own revenue stream from that innovation. …
Time For A Compute Rematch Between The FPGA And The GPU was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Where Will Quantum Systems Succeed in AI Training?
Quantum computers will continue to fit in the “emerging technologies” category for some time, at least in terms of their ability to handle a large enough number of real-world applications. …
Where Will Quantum Systems Succeed in AI Training? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part Three
We have been making the case in this three part series that vertical integration is becoming more popular in modern datacenters. …
Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part Three was written by Paul Teich at The Next Platform.
How Far Can You Push Integration With FPGAs?
If you squint your eyes, a modern FPGA looks like a programmable logic device was crossbred with the mutt of a switch ASIC and an SoC. …
How Far Can You Push Integration With FPGAs? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Next AI Platform: 2020 Edition
Much of what sets The Next Platform apart from other tech publications is depth and analysis. …
The Next AI Platform: 2020 Edition was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
How To Drive Infrastructure Like Uber Does
There are many things that the hyperscalers and cloud builders have taught enterprise IT to respect more than perhaps it had in years gone by. …
How To Drive Infrastructure Like Uber Does was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Fundamental Disconnect Between Software Pricing And Moore’s Law
There are two major opposing forces in the datacenter that create tension in IT budgets. …
The Fundamental Disconnect Between Software Pricing And Moore’s Law was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The Killer Apps For FPGAs Could Be SmartNICs And Storage
If FPGAs are going to take off in the datacenter in their own right, they are going to need their own killer apps. …
The Killer Apps For FPGAs Could Be SmartNICs And Storage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Fourth Wave Of FPGA Compute
Ahead of The Next FPGA Platform event that we hosted recently in San Jose, we talked to Manoj Roge, vice president of product planning and business development at Achronix, about the three waves of FPGAs that have occurred over the past three decades, and in the course of our live conversation, we got a little more insight into the addressable market for FPGAs and also talked about the fourth wave, which is just starting now. …
The Fourth Wave Of FPGA Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Putting In-Memory Processing Through The Paces
From a conceptual standpoint, the idea of embedding processing within main memory makes logical sense since it would eliminate many layers of latency between compute and memory in modern systems and make the parallel processing inherent in many workloads overlay elegantly onto the distributed compute and storage components to speed up processing. …
Putting In-Memory Processing Through The Paces was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Using Bayesian Inference To Reverse Engineer Decades Of HPC
A collaboration including the University of Oxford, University of British Columbia, Intel, New York University, CERN, and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center is working to make it practical to incorporate of Bayesian inference into scientific simulators. …
Using Bayesian Inference To Reverse Engineer Decades Of HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Time in the Sun Coming for Cloud FPGAs
Keeping an eye on how the largest cloud providers choose to invest in hardware is always interesting but it does not often shed much light on how emerging workloads are driving new investments. …
Time in the Sun Coming for Cloud FPGAs was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.