It had to happen sooner or later, and really, the wonder is that it hasn’t already happened, given the nature of the infrastructure buildouts at hyperscalers and cloud builders, the skittishness of enterprises due to the trade war between the United States and China, the uncertainty in Europe over the British exit, and general concern with macroeconomic issues because it has now been almost twelve years since the last recession. …
The Inevitable Slowdown In Server Spending was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The widening performance disparity between compute and I/O is not likely to get any better in the fast-approaching exascale era. …
Will HPC Centers Say ADIOS To POSIX I/O? was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
It would be convenient for everyone – chip makers and those who are running machine learning workloads – if training and inference could be done on the same device. …
Nvidia Shows Off Tech Chops With RC18 Inference Chip was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In July, VMware acquired Bitfusion, a company whose technology virtualizes compute accelerators with the goal of enabling modern workloads like artificial intelligence and data analytics to take full advantage of systems with GPUs or with FPGAs. …
Accelerating AI With GPU Virtualization In The Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
High performance computing isn’t what it used to be. Performance, in particular, has become a slippery metric as a result of the design constraints of modern clustered systems. …
The Myth Of Peak Performance was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has been aggressive in extending the tentacles of its GreenLake cloud-like IT consumption model since announcing the technology in mid-2018. …
HPE Takes VMware Cloud Users On Its Synergy Journey To Greenlake was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
If you think about it for a minute, it is amazing that any of the old-time IT suppliers, like IBM and Hewlett Packard, and to a certain extent now Microsoft and Dell, have persisted in the datacenter for decades or, in the case of Big Blue, for more than a century. …
To Be Always Surfing On Tectonic Shifts was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The San Diego Supercomputing Center is overdue for a new supercomputer and thanks to a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation, next year it will finally get one. …
SDSC Doubles Up Performance With Expanse Supercomputer was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
Processor hardware for machine learning is in their early stages but it already taking different paths. …
Habana Takes Training And Inference Down Different Paths was written by Michael Feldman at .
More than a decade ago, VMware and its new server virtualization technology represented significant threat to traditional OEMs like Dell, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard (now Hewlett Packard Enterprise) who were selling their boxes to enterprises that had to over-provision the systems they were bringing into make sure there was enough compute capacity to handle the biggest spikes in demand over the course of the year. …
VMware’s Head – And Future – Is In The Clouds was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Startup Cerebras Systems has unveiled the world’s largest microprocessor, a waferscale chip custom-built for machine learning. …
Machine Learning Chip Breaks New Ground With Waferscale Integration was written by Michael Feldman at .
Carey Kloss has been intimately involved with the rise of AI hardware over the last several years, most notably with his work building the first Nervana compute engine, which Intel captured and is rolling into two separate products: one chip for training, another for inference. …
Intel Focuses on Scale Out AI Training With New Chip was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
It has been a long time coming, and it might have been better if this had been done a decade ago. …
Big Blue Open Sources Power Chip Instruction Set was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The rapid changes underway in modern datacenters and HPC environment are demanding more compute power from a tech industry that is running into significant barriers to supplying that capacity. …
The View From On High On How To Beat Moore’s Law was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
If you want for the rapid pace of innovation in datacenter networking to continue, then you had better hope that the hyperscalers and major public cloud builders don’t run out of money. …
The Future Of Networks Depends On Hyperscalers And Big Clouds was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Forget in-memory computing for the moment because it requires a complete re-architecting of applications and most of the time the underlying hardware, too. …
Getting Around The Limits Of Memory To Accelerate Applications was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Last fall, supercomputer maker Cray announced that it was getting back to making high performance cluster interconnects after a six year hiatus, but the company had already been working on its “Rosetta” switch ASIC for the Slingshot interconnect for quite a while before it started talking publicly about it. …
How Cray Makes Ethernet Suited For HPC And AI With Slingshot was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
If you were expecting Nvidia to start talking about its future “Einstein” GPUs for Tesla accelerated computing soon just because AMD is getting ready to roll out “Navi” GPUs next year and Intel is working on its Xe GPU cards for delivery next year, too, you are going to have to wait a bit longer. …
Nvidia Readies For Battle In The Datacenter In 2020 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
In any chip design, the devil – and the angel – is always in the details. …
A Deep Dive Into AMD’s Rome Epyc Architecture was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
As artificial neural networks for natural language processing (NLP) continue to improve, it is becoming easier and easier to chat with our computers. …
Nvidia Elevates The Conversation For Natural Language Processing was written by Michael Feldman at .