In one fell swoop, Intel has finally filled a giant hole in its switching product line by acquiring upstart Barefoot Networks, the creator of the P4 programming language for networking devices and the “Tofino” family of Ethernet switch ASICs that make use of it. …
Intel Finally Serious About Switching with Barefoot Networks Buy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
If you want to see what the future of the Kubernetes container management system will look like, then the closed source, homegrown Tupperware container control system that Facebook has been using and evolving since 2011 – before Docker containers and Kubernetes were around – might be a good place to find inspiration. …
Future Kubernetes Will Mimic What Facebook Already Does was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
At the recent EuroHPC Summit in Poland, the nature of Europe’s first homegrown HPC processor was described in some detail. …
Europe’s Homegrown HPC Compute Begins To Take Shape was written by Michael Feldman at .
AMD’s second-generation Epyc processor, code-named “Rome,” has yet to be released into the wild, but it is already racking up some impressive wins in academic supercomputing. …
AMD Garners Academic Credentials With New Supercomputer Wins was written by Michael Feldman at .
You know the world is a different place when shipping 2.58 million servers in a quarter feels like a slowdown, a disappointment, and perhaps a leading indicator of an overall economic slowdown in the world. …
A New Era In Servers Is Starting Now was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
More and more of the networking that is done in the datacenter is performed on software-defined networking whiteboxes rather than on proprietary black box machinery that was controlled by one supplier. …
Getting Smart About Software-Defined Networks was written by Daniel Robinson at .
The big players in the Hadoop data analytics market continue to hit headwinds in a rapidly evolving market that now includes competition from Amazon Web Services and top-tier major cloud providers that offer enterprises services for managing and analyzing the huge amounts of data that they are generating. …
Have The Public Clouds Killed Hadoop? was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
We have to admit that it is often a lot more fun watching an upstart carve out whole new slices of business, or create them out of what appears to be thin air, in the datacenter than it is to watch how it will respond to intense competitive pressures and somehow manage to keep growing despite that. …
Where Does Nvidia Go In The Datacenter From Here? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
At The Next AI Platform event in May, we brought together a few leading investors on the deep learning chip front to talk about how they consider architecture, software, competitiveness, and market potential from the various approaches for both training and inference. …
VCs Look Beyond Architecture for Next Chip Success Stories was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
When most people speak of exascale supercomputers, they tend to focus on the computational aspect of these systems. …
The Shape of Storage for the Exascale Era was written by Michael Feldman at .
As the era of exascale supercomputing approaches, Europe is making a concerted effort to become a first-class HPC power, on par with that of the United States, China, and Japan. …
Maintaining Europe’s Edge in Supercomputing Software was written by Michael Feldman at .
Cockroach Labs has created a clone of Google’s Spanner geographically distributed database, and it looks like adoption of the CockroachDB database is starting to ride up the blade of the proverbial hockey stick and is moving quickly towards the much steeper handle. …
CockroachDB Wants To Take A Bite Out Of Oracle was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
There is little question that storage and I/O are hot topics once again with the arrival of a host of new technologies that displaced the tried and true from decades past (disk, bulky parallel file systems, etc.). …
Existing Storage Infrastructure is the Bottleneck for AI was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Whether we want to term it HPC, AI, hyperscale, or something in between to apply to large-scale enterprise, there are fundamental changes afoot for big organizations with large clusters that are doing double (or quadruple) duty with production workloads and the new integration of machine learning. …
HPC or AI: Composability is Still King was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
It is no secret that the big three commercial Hadoop distributors have been running into headwinds in recent years as more workloads and data have made their way into the public cloud and that these Hadoop platform providers have spent a lot of money and time to expand their stacks beyond the basic open source Hadoop. …
Hadoop Pioneer MapR Faces An Uncertain Future was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Optical computing, a technology that traces its roots back to the 1930s, is enjoying something of a revival these days. …
Startup Looks To Light Up Machine Learning was written by Michael Feldman at .
It was a long time coming but AMD is finding its footing again in the high performance computing space. …
AMD Puts Epyc In The HPC Driver’s Seat was written by Michael Feldman at .
Earlier in May during The Next AI Platform event in San Jose, we conducted live, technical interviews with a broad range of experts in various areas of deep learning hardware. …
AI Chip Leads Debate Training, Inference Accelerator Trends was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
The quantum computing effort at Honeywell appears to be heating up. …
Honeywell One Step Closer To Universal Quantum Computer was written by Michael Feldman at .
The most interesting thing about Hewlett Packard Enterprise has nothing to do with its many products in compute, storage, and networking, or even its recent $1.3 billion deal to acquire supercomputer maker Cray. …
Selling Distributed Public Cloud, One Rack At A Time was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .