It is funny to think of the modern datacenter as an appliance, like an iPhone, but in the cases of the hyperscalers and the very largest public cloud builders, this is more or less what they are building. …
Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part Two was written by Paul Teich at The Next Platform.
While supercomputers are arguably the most exciting segment of the high performance computing market, the majority of systems deployed in any given year do not fit into this elite category. …
Most Of HPC Happens Under The Radar was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
In the long run of the history of International Business Machines, a conglomerate established back in 1911 whose Electric Tabulating System was custom built by Herman Hollerith for the federal government in the United States for the 1890 census and then commercialized, the acquisition of Red Hat by Big Blue might, in hindsight many years from now, turn out to be the most significant of the many transitions that IBM has undergone. …
Making The Red Hat Platform Bet Pay Off For Big Blue was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Over a decade ago we would not have expected accelerators to have be commonplace in the datacenter. …
Could FPGAs Outweigh CPUs In Compute Share? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Indiana University is the proud owner of the first operational Cray “Shasta” supercomputer on the planet. …
Academia Gets The First Production Cray “Shasta” Supercomputer was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
Neuromorphic computing has garnered a lot of attention over the past few years, largely driven by its potential to deliver low-power artificial intelligence to the masses. …
Neuromorphic Chip Maker Takes Aim At The Edge was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
The term “AIOps” is getting a lot of work these days, and it shouldn’t come as a surprise. …
Sparking The Gap Between AI And DevOps was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The GPU has become a standard platform for accelerating high performance computing workloads, at least for those that have had their code tweaked to support acceleration at all. …
Oak Ridge Trials Arm-GPU Combo On HPC Testbed was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is hard to take on either Intel or Nvidia in their respectively dominant CPU and GPU markets, and credit is due to AMD for taking on both companies at the same time to try to carve itself a larger slice of the datacenter pie. …
AMD Takes A Bigger Bite Out Of The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Like the large enterprises they sell gear to, the big OEMs are a conservative lot and they take a paced, methodical approach to introducing new technologies into the datacenter. …
IBM Bookends AI With New Accelerated Power9 System was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Europe is trailing the other major HPC powers in its quest to field exascale supercomputers. …
European Processor Initiative Readies Prototype was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
Storage systems are inherently data intensive. But the rapid emergence of artificial intelligence as a standard datacenter workload has storage vendors scrambling to design platforms that better meet the more stringent performance needs of these applications. …
AI Is Driving Storage Down New Avenues was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and parent company Alphabet, generated a lot of buzz recently with an op-ed he wrote for the The Financial Times calling for greater regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, adding a high-profile voice into a debate that has been simmering as innovation around AI, machine learning and deep learning have advanced rapidly. …
The Debate Over Regulating AI Ramps Up was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Let’s face it. As far as we knew, given how poorly the server market was doing in the final quarter of 2018 and the first two quarters of 2019, we had no idea how well or poorly it might end up. …
Intel Fills In The First Half Server Pothole – And Then Some was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When talking about auto racing, everything eventually boils down to speed. …
Dallara Races To The Future Of HPC was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
As we roll into 2020, it’s shaping up to be a banner year for cloud-based high performance computing. …
HPC In 2020: The Cloud’s Growth Spurt Begins in Earnest was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
A decade or so before the GPU started storming the datacenter thanks to Nvidia’s Tesla GPU accelerators and their CUDA parallel programming environment and CPU offload model, FPGAs were starting to gain traction as accelerators in their own right. …
The GPU Is The Worst – And Best – Thing To Happen To The FPGA was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The University of Michigan is one of the top academic centers in the United States with over $1.5 …
The University of Michigan Gets Serious About Supercomputing ROI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The field programmable gate array has always been a different sort of animal in the semiconductor market. …
The Three Eras Of Programmable Logic was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The gap between the performance of processors, broadly defined, and the performance of DRAM main memory, also broadly defined, has been an issue for at least three decades when the gap really started to open up. …
Cache Is King was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.