It must have been something in the cosmic ether.
Apopros of nothing except the need to fill a blank page with something interesting back when we were analyzing IBM’s second quarter financials and considering the options that Big Blue has with the “Cirrus” Power10 systems it will be launching about a year from now, we did a thought experiment about what it would mean if IBM started to believe in big iron machines again. …
The Memory Area Network At The Heart Of IBM’s Power10 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Whenever enterprise server buyers are shopping, they are not just comparing the possible options on the market today against each other. …
Making HCI Hay While the Sun Shines was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A Linux distro natively tuned for containers (and open source); FPGAs in Space; funding for spin qubits (among other quantum tech); the IO500 and evaluating large-scale storage systems; an automotive company’s AI supercomputer; much more…
Next Platform TV for September 3, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
For about a decade, Intel has sold GPUs, in recent years with its integrated CPU-GPU devices used in client and entry servers. …
Intel Puts Its Xe GPU Stakes In The Ground was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
If you read The Next Platform, you probably love hardware and there are probably two reasons for that. …
Adding ML To Legacy Applications Without The Learning Curve was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Last week we brought you The Next Database Platform live event and now we are providing most sessions from the full recording below. …
The Next Database Platform (Full Recording Available) was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
In-depth with Intel’s Raja Koduri; a unique spin on RDMA; from HPC to DNA storage CTO (market and more); AI inference architecture tradeoffs at ultra-low power; Taboola’s datacenter shutdown and lessons for IT crisis management at scale; much more. …
Next Platform TV for August 25, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Storage in the ever-expanding HPC space has traditionally been based on temperature. …
Lowering The Temperature Of HPC Storage Tiering was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
When we said thirteen weeks ago that we thought that Nvidia’s datacenter business would be its largest operating division before too long, we didn’t think it would only take a quarter to do that. …
The Local Maxima Ascension Of Datacenter At Nvidia was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It was just over a year ago that the RISC-V Foundation, the group shepherding the chip architecture in what over the past decade has become an active and crowded processor market, ratified the base instruction set architecture (ISA) and related specifications. …
Alibaba On The Bleeding Edge Of RISC-V With XT910 was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
It happens all the time. There is a performance problem, and everyone blames the network. …
Cray-Now-HPE Issues Network Performance Challenge – And Cooperation – With GPCNeT Benchmark was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Say what you will, but among the many vendors that have tried to break into the datacenter with Arm server chips, Marvell, by virtue of the hard work done by Cavium, which it acquired, and Broadcom, which sold its “Vulcan” design to Cavium when it exited the business, has been the most successful in terms of shipments and ecosystem. …
Taking A Deeper Dive Into Marvell’s “Triton” ThunderX3 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Raja Koduri has been in the thick of the past two eras of computing, which were marked by – among other things – the ability to architect systems and software that helped to get more performance into the hands into increasing numbers of people. …
Building A Better Machine For An AI World was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
For the past several years here at The Next Platform, as we have been pondering what IBM might do with the future Power10 processor, we have been feinting here and there with our analytical pen, trying to suss out precisely what Big Blue might be up to, particularly with the unique memory architecture that it has been working on for more than a decade. …
IBM Brings An Architecture Gun To A Chip Knife Fight was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
On today’s edition we dig into the network and system architecture of the “Selene” supercomputer at Nvidia. …
Next Platform TV for August 18, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
It has been a long time since Intel changed its manufacturing process – what it used to call a “tick” – and the microarchitecture and architecture of a processor design – what it used to call a “tock” – at the same time. …
The Ticking And Tocking Of Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As we all know well, the various elements computer architecture swing on their own pendulums, with consolidated being at the center and distributed being at the opposite ends of the arc. …
Staking The Claim For The Real DPU was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Inside look at Oak Ridge National Lab’s facilities for Summit -> Frontier; The Quantum Internet; ‘ADIOS’ to Data Management; AI for Neuroimaging; Cloud Price/Perf for Genomics; + More.. …
Next Platform TV for August 13, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Multiplying things by two and putting them on a roadmap is easy, even if it does take a lot of courage to do that. …
The Tech Tricks That Make PCI-Express 6.0 And Beyond Possible was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
On today’s program we look at the future of Cray as part of HPE with former Cray CEO and current HPC and mission-critical systems lead at HPE-Cray, Pete Ungaro. …
Next Platform TV for August 6, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.