The hyperscalers and the largest public clouds have been on the front end of each successive network bandwidth wave for more than a decade, and it only stands to reason that they, rather than the IEEE, would want to drive the standards for faster Ethernet networks. …
Hyperscalers Set The Pace For 800G Ethernet was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
VMware burst onto the datacenter scene a little more than a decade ago, during the last big recession, when server virtualization appeared at exactly the right time when server spending was going to be seriously curtailed by economic forces. …
Following The Network To The Cloud And Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Over the last few years the idea of “conditional computation” has been key to making neural network processing more efficient, even though much of the hardware ecosystem has focused on general purpose approaches that rely on matrix math operations that brute force the problem instead of selectively operate on only the required pieces. …
Changing Conditions for Neural Network Processing was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” …
IT Spending Projections Go Negative For 2020 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
To one way of looking at it, a reprise of the Bus Wars from days gone by in the late 1980s and early 1990s would have been a lot of fun. …
CXL And Gen-Z Iron Out A Coherent Interconnect Strategy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For the past five years or so, there has been a lot of talk about accelerated computing being the new normal and about the era of the general purpose processor being over in the datacenter, and for good reason. …
Tachyum Starts From Scratch To Etch A Universal Processor was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Since 1965, the computer industry has relied on Moore’s Law to accelerate innovation, pushing more transistors into integrated circuits to improve computation performance. …
Disrupt The Datacenter With Orchestration was written by Guy Harpak at The Next Platform.
The Great Infection is unique among recessions in that it is essentially a self-imposed economic downturn, not the result of over-exuberance or excess optimism or greed, but by a spikey ball of fat that is not alive but is more like a self-replicating biological machine that only knows how to do one thing: Copy itself if it reaches the right sticky environment in time before it dries out and falls apart. …
IT Spending Prognostication During The Great Infection was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In the ever-evolving landscape that is the edge, applications are the driving force. …
Lenovo Teams With Microsoft Azure At The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Whether or not the coronavirus pandemic causes the Great Recession II or the Great Depression II, we are without a doubt entering an era when IT industry is going to need lower prices, better performance, and better thermal profiles for their compute engines than they have ever required before. …
Betting On Extreme Co-Design For Compute Chips was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Public-private partnerships are common when responding to national or international crises and the current coronavirus pandemic that is expanding around the globe is no different. …
A Hackathon To Battle The Coronavirus Pandemic was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
While the long overdue upgrade to PCI-Express 4.0 is finally coming to servers, allowing for high bandwidth links between processors and peripherals. …
Pushing PCI-Express Fabrics Up To The Next Level was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Server component and system maker Supermicro is known for being out in front when any X86 processor comes to market and often shoots the gap between ODMs, who have a relatively small number of large customers, and OEMs, who have a large number of relatively small customers. …
Minimalist Hyperscale Servers For The Rest Of Us was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The relentless need for bandwidth is probably something that all of us are well aware of these days in our home lives thanks to the coronavirus outbreak. …
Mellanox Doubles Up Ethernet Bandwidth With Spectrum-3 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The U.S. Department of Energy is backing a sweeping software to bring wind turbine and wind farm modeling into the exascale era with the open source “ExaWind” modeling and simulation environment. …
Wind Energy to Get an Exascale Boost was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
IBM, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are teaming with the White House, the US Department of Energy, and other federal agencies to bring a massive amount of supercomputing power and public cloud resources to scientists, engineers and researchers who are working to address the novel coronavirus global pandemic that is expected to bear down hard on the United States in the coming weeks. …
Bringing 330 Petaflops Of Supercomputing To Bear On The Outbreak was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
(Sponsored Content) HPC workloads are rapidly moving to the cloud. Market sizing from HPC analyst firm Hyperion Research shows a dramatic 60 percent rise in cloud spending from just under $2.5 …
Four Essential Strategies To Avoid HPC Cloud Lock-In was written by Rob Lalonde at The Next Platform.
Neuromorphic computing has a rather long way to go before it becomes an accepted part of systems. …
Intel Smells Neuromorphic Opportunity was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
It is pretty clear at this point that there is going to be a global recession thanks to the coronavirus outbreak. …
Stacking Up Arm Server Chips Against X86 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In the end, what enterprises really want is a way to run any application on any cloud at any time. …
Packet Puts An Edge on Equinix was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.