At The Next FPGA Platform event in January there were several conversations about what roles reconfigurable hardware will play in the future of deep learning. …
FPGA Inroads to Convolutional Neural Networks was written by Josh Gibson at The Next Platform.
Whatever is going on with its competitive positioning against revitalized X86 server chip rival AMD, Intel clearly felt that it could not wait for the launch of its 14 nanometer “Cooper Lake” and 10 nanometer “Ice Lake” Xeon SP processors to address it. …
Intel Reacts To The Competitive Heat On Its Xeons was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If it wasn’t bad enough that Moore’s Law improvements in the density and cost of transistors is slowing. …
Google Teaches AI To Play The Game Of Chip Design was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We are just 18 days away from The Next AI Platform event on March 10, 2020 at The Glasshouse in San Jose. …
Full Agenda for The Next AI Platform: 2020 Edition was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The growing number of and installations for all-flash storage arrays is hard to ignore. …
Sticking With Disks In An Increasingly All-Flash World was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
At The Next FPGA Platform event in San Jose, California on January 22, Jose Alvarez, Intel PSG CTO, Jose Alvarez outlined the three levels of heterogeneous integration. …
The Three Levels of Heterogeneous Integration was written by Josh Gibson at The Next Platform.
With the ramping of volumes, the maturing of the manufacturing process, and the widening number of use cases in the field, there is always an opportunity for the lineup of every type and generation of compute engine to get some tweaks here and there. …
AMD Tweaks Rome Epyc Server Chip Lineup was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Enterprise IT continues to cast its attentions – and sometimes its aspersions – out to the edge, that place outside of traditional datacenters and beyond that cloud where data is increasingly being generated and processed. …
The Continuum From Edges To Datacenters was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
It is not difficult to oversimplify, even with something as complex and diverse as quantum computing, but these systems go far beyond mere qubits in deep freeze. …
Quantum Control: More Than Meets the Eye was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.