If there is anything we are learning about the emerging chip ecosystem for AI inference, it is that it is vast, rapidly evolving, and incredibly diverse. …
Balanced AI Inference Chip Benchmarking Is Underway was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
DataDirect Networks (DDN) has launched EXA5, the company’s fifth-generation Exascaler Lustre file system platform, which will be used to populate the company’s all-flash, mid-range, and high-end storage appliances. …
Auto-Tiered Storage for AI and HPC was written by Michael Feldman at .
Qumulo was born at a time of change. When the company was founded seven years ago, enterprises were still running most of their business on premises, but the cloud was out there now and software-defined was gaining steam. …
A File System for a Changing IT World was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Hyperscalers change their datacenters – by which we mean whole generations of servers, storage, and switching – like regular enterprises upgrade server platforms. …
Bringing Big Bandwidth To Large Enterprises was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
When Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) installs its 1.5-exaflops Frontier supercomputer in a couple of years, it’s likely to be the most powerful system in the US, if not the world. …
Exascale System At Oak Ridge Will Blaze New Storage Path was written by Michael Feldman at .
For enterprises that want to take their compute, storage and networking, create fluid pools of datacenter resources and then use software to deploy and use them as needed, Hewlett Packard Enterprise for the past few years have offered them its Synergy composable appliances that include all that hardware capabilities as well as software like OneView for IT management. …
Composability Melts Into Rack Servers was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Over the last couple of years, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has added to its already broad portfolio of storage, which includes 3PAR arrays, which HPE bought in 2010, and its homegrown XP7 lineup, aimed at mission-critical workloads that need high availability and uptime. …
Spreading Artificial Intelligence Across Storage was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
At the ISC conference this week, HPC market analyst firm Hyperion Research offered its mid-year HPC market update, which recapped what happened in 2018 and provided some particularly interesting observations on the exascale space. …
Exascale Spending To Energize HPC Market Through 2025 was written by Michael Feldman at .
The public cloud has given enterprises a taste of infrastructure that is highly agile and scalable, that is deployed and managed by someone else and that can be paid for based on the resources use, and now they increasingly are looking for tech vendors to give them a similar experience with their on-premises and hybrid cloud environments. …
HPE To Sell Every Product As A Service By 2022 was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
GPU chip maker Nvidia doesn’t just make the devices that end up in some of the largest supercomputers in the world. …
Inside Nvidia’s DGX SuperPOD Cluster was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
We have followed a fair number of system trends for the oil and gas industry over the years. …
Energy Giant Takes the AI Supercomputer Route was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
The Barcelona Supercomputer Center will soon be the proud owners of the Europe’s first pre-exascale supercomputer. …
Europe Will Enter Pre-Exascale Realm With MareNostrum 5 was written by Michael Feldman at .
When the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers comes out twice a year, the top-ranked machines receive the lion’s share of attention. …
Dennard Scaling Demise Puts Permanent Dent in Supercomputing was written by Michael Feldman at .
Throughout the many different types of system architecture in the past six decades, one thing has always remained true: Hardware always gets ahead of software, and rather than be too annoyed about it, there is another thing that is also true. …
Doing The Math: The Reality Of HPC And AI Convergence was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Habana Labs has unveiled the Gaudi HL-2000, a custom-built AI processor that the company claims can outrun Nvidia’s best and brightest GPUs at training neural networks. …
AI Chip Startup Releases Training Accelerator to Challenge GPUs was written by Michael Feldman at .
Creating the Tesla GPU compute platform has taken Nvidia the better part of a decade and a half, and it has culminated in a software stack comprised of various HPC and AI frameworks, the CUDA parallel programming environment, compilers from Nvidia’s PGI division and their OpenACC extensions as well as open source GCC compilers, and various other tools that together account for tens of millions of lines of code and tens of thousands of individual APIs. …
Nvidia Makes Arm A Peer To X86 And Power For GPU Acceleration was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
If you want to rank in the world of supercomputing – as national and state governments as well as academic and research institutions most certainly do to prove their worth for research and development – then you need to have at least a petaflops ante now to play the game. …
Supercomputing Coiled To Spring To Exascale was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
There are two trends converging in AI inference and so far, only a small number of companies are enmeshed. …
Will Analog AI Make Mythic a Unicorn? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Wave Computing was one of the earliest AI chip startups that held significant promise, particularly with its initial message of a single architecture to handle both training and inference. …
AI Chip Startup Makes Training to Edge Inference Transition was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Given our focus on the systems-level of AI machine building, storage was a big topic of discussion at the sold-out Next AI Platform event we hosted in May. …
The Challenge Machine Learning Brings To Storage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .