When it comes to traditional HPC, it has taken a bit longer for cloud and AI to catch on. …
What the Geospatial Industry is Learning About HPC, AI, and Cloud was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Everyone in the networking industry seems to fall into one of two camps: those that have used server-based routing software and those that have no idea such a thing exists. …
FRR: The Most Popular Network Router You’ve Never Heard Of was written by Peter Lumbris at The Next Platform.
Somewhere nearly a decade ago, we made a joke when looking at the rise of the hyperscalers and cloud builders. …
Intel Needs To Engineer Its Financial Future was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The long-held skepticism around wafer-scale architectures is deep and goes back decades. …
Is There a Wafer-Scale Revolution on the Horizon? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Success in any endeavor is not just about having the right idea, but having that idea at the right time and then executing well against that plan. …
The Resurrection Of Cray And AMD In A Trifurcating HPC Space was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As we at The Next Platform have talked about before, the once-clear line of delineation that has run between the hyperscale cloud services providers and the OEMs that for decades has made the systems for enterprise datacenters has faded. …
Dell Climbs To The Apex Of The Hybrid Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
We have argued, even a decade and a half before The Next Platform was founded, that no one would ever move all of their IT infrastructure to a utility, what we now call a public cloud. …
At Its Heart, IBM Remains A Systems Company was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The more things change, the more they stay the same in HPC storage. …
Divide Deepens Between HPC and Enterprise Storage was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
For more than a year, Dell Technologies has been putting together the pieces of its hybrid cloud strategy, a combination of its own hardware – in particular, the VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure appliance – and software and VMware technologies, including its VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) platform and, more recently, the virtualization vendor’s Tanzu, a platform for Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native applications. …
Blurring The Lines Between Your Cloud And Their Clouds was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The Department of Energy has formed a partnership between Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and AI chip startup, SambaNova to deliver systems with acceleration for AI and HPC workloads. …
National Lab Supercomputing Sites Pick SambaNova for AI System Dance was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Speaking very generally, investment in capability-class supercomputers by national governments tends to scale with gross domestic product. …
HPE And AMD Bag The Big Supercomputer Deal Down Under was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Front Row with Frontera; Spectrum Scale Strategy; Computational Storage Deep Dive; Neural Programming Frontiers; MLPerf for HPC + More…
On today’s episode for the week, we talk to Dan Stanzione, director of the Texas Advanced Computing Center, to get an update on the “Frontera” supercomputer. …
Next Platform TV: October 16, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
What is the hardest job at Intel, excepting whoever is in charge of the development of chip etching processes and the foundries that implement it? …
Intel Networking: Not Just A Bag Of Parts was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For those who have followed supercomputing over several years, the Bull systems brand is familiar, especially in Europe. …
With Another Key Supercomputer Win, Atos Looks Stronger Than Ever was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Security is one of those necessary things that should not be an afterthought, but often is, and ideally is so invisible that it doesn’t get in the way of applications and the infrastructure it runs on. …
Intel To Amp Up Security With “Ice Lake” Xeon SP Servers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The move to integrating AI into current operations and finding its role in entirely new applications at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is similar to what we’re seeing among other large-scale enterprises. …
Seismic Shifts Ahead for Big Banking Infrastructure was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Moving from an HPC center or a hyperscaler to work on enterprise software has to be a frustrating experience. …
It Takes Geological Patience To Change Datacenter Storage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We are still digging through the content coming out of the GTC 2020 fall conference and would be remiss if we didn’t talk a bit about the “Ampere” A40 and A6000 GPU accelerators that Nvidia is previewing. …
Nvidia Previews Ampere Kicker To Turing GPU Accelerator was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For a long time, datacenter compute has been the very picture of stability – Intel-based servers running enterprise workloads in central facilities. …
Navigating Through The Roiling Datacenter Waters was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
On today’s show, in depth with Google’s lead for technical infrastructure on the topic of open infrastructure; a look at the Arm ecosystem in supercomputing and large-scale datacenters with computing pioneer, Simon McIntosh-Smith; we check in with Matt Kixmoeller of Pure Storage to discuss containers and flash–and all the sticky points in between; the show closes with an in-depth on IBM’s opening of its Power architecture and what it means for their competitive advantage. …
Next Platform TV: October 9, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.