Systems management has always been in a race to catch up with the innovation in systems, and it is always nipping at the heels. …
Time Is Always Money, Especially With HPC On The Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Not so long ago, there was a question whether exascale supercomputers would be built from a very large number of thin nodes containing only modest amounts of parallelism or a smaller number of fat nodes powered by specialized accelerators and powerful manycore processors. …
OpenACC Cozies Up To C, C++, and Fortran Standards was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
Amazon Web Services is at the top of an expanding mountain, the dominant player in a public cloud services space that is expected to push past $200 billion in revenue this year and make its way well beyond $300 billion by 2022. …
AWS Works Hard To Keep Ahead Of The Public Cloud Herd was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Finally, we get to test out how well or poorly a well-designed Arm server chip will do in the datacenter. …
Finally: AWS Gives Servers A Real Shot In The Arm was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It took decades for server virtualization to go mainstream, making their way from hardware and software partitions on mainframes three decades ago down to proprietary and Unix systems two decades ago to X86 servers with VMware, XenServer, Microsoft, and Red Hat all doing their part. …
Taking The PCI Express To Malleable Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There are just two Arm-powered supercomputers on the latest TOP500 rankings: the “Astra” system at Sandia National Laboratories and Fujitsu’s new A64FX prototype. …
Arm Aligns Its Server Ambitions To Those Of Its Partners was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
The confluence of big data, AI, and edge computing is reshaping the contours of high performance computing. …
Edging Toward Distributed HPC was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
At our HPC Day event ahead of the SC19 conference, supercomputing expert and Linpack creator Jack Dongarra talked about his new HPL-AI benchmark. …
Tweaked Math Libraries Exploit AI Hardware For Traditional HPC was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
One of the recurring themes at the recent HPC Day event that we hosted ahead of the SC19 supercomputing conference in Denver was that capability class supercomputers are getting more and more expensive. …
Bending The Supercomputing Cost Curve Down was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Nvidia has for years made artificial intelligence (AI) and its various subsets – such as machine learning and deep learning – a foundation of future growth and sees it as a competitive advantage against rival Intel and a growing crop of smaller chip maker and newcomers looking to gain traction in a rapidly evolving IT environment. …
Nvidia Moves Clara Healthcare AI To The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
During the Intel AI Summit earlier this month where the company demonstrated its initial processors for artificial intelligence training and inference workloads, Naveen Rao, corporate vice president and general manager of the Artificial Intelligence Products Group at Intel, spoke about the rapid pace of evolution in the AI space that also includes machine learning and deep learning. …
Keeping Pace In A Fast-Moving AI Space was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The first crop of exascale supercomputers in the United States will be powered by some of the most computationally dense hardware ever assembled. …
Exascale Density Pushes The Boundaries Of Cooling was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
The profit pools in datacenter infrastructure are a bit like oases in the desert: There are a lot of miles between them, and some of them turn out to be mirages. …
Holding The Line In The Enterprise was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is funny to think that in a certain light, AMD has Big Blue to thank for its resurgence in the datacenter. …
Talking System Architecture With AMD CTO Mark Papermaster was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
According to Hyperion Research, 2018 was a banner year for the high performance computing industry. …
New Applications, More Users Drive Bright Outlook for HPC was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
When it comes to energy-efficient supercomputing, sometimes less is more. That was illustrated this week by Fujitsu with its A64FX prototype, which captured the top spot on the Green500 list. …
Arm Supercomputer Captures The Energy Efficiency Crown was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
We are not shy of playing guessing games here at The Next Platform, as you all well know. …
Doing The Math On Future Exascale Supercomputers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is now pretty much assured that the first three pre-exascale systems being installed in the European Union will not be powered by processors being developed under the European Processor Initiative (EPI). …
First European Pre-Exascale Supercomputers Forgo Homegrown CPUs was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
Arm server development is a reality and a growing one at that. …
Has Arm Discovered the Ecosystem Keys? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
As GPU-accelerated servers go, Nvidia’s DGX-2 box is hard to beat. …
Speeding I/O for Multi-GPU Clusters was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.