Microsoft Azure has been able to put actual Cray XC series supercomputers and CS Storm clusters in the public cloud for more than two years now, and it is unclear how many companies have commissioned Cray, now part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, to do so. …
Public Cloud Giants Fight For HPC Supremacy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The one thing that AMD’s return to the CPU market and its more aggressive moves in the GPU compute arena have done, as well as Intel’s plan to create a line of discrete Xe GPUs that can be used as companions to its Xeon processors, has done is push Nvidia and Arm closer together. …
Nvidia Arms Up Server OEMs And ODMs For Hybrid Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The latest list of the world’s top 500 floppiest supercomputers was released this week and the biggest news to report is that there is almost no news to report. …
The Calm Before The Exascale Storm was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
The days when the X86 processor could do just about every kind of processing in the datacenter are gone. …
The Four Workhorses Of The Data Apocalypse was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The datacenter business at Nvidia hit a rough patch a little less than a year ago, but it is starting to pick up again after a few quarters of declines and may soon be in positive growth territory. …
The Datacenter Starts To Perk Up For Nvidia was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Stranded capacity has always been the biggest waste in the datacenter, and over the years, we have added more and more clever kinds of virtualization – hardware partitions, virtual machines and their hypervisors, and containers – as well as the systems management tools that exploit them. …
It Takes Liquidity To Make Infrastructure Fluid was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center has launched the European Laboratory for Open Computer Architecture (LOCA), a five-year effort aimed at developing energy efficient, high performance computing chips based on open architectures. …
Europe Opens Second Front For Domestic HPC Processors was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
At this year’s Intel AI Summit, the chipmaker demonstrated its first-generation Neural Network Processors (NNP): NNP-T for training and NNP-I for inference. …
Intel Throws Down AI Gauntlet With Neural Network Chips was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Traditional datacenter infrastructure suppliers have a complicated relationship with the cloud. …
Putting On Demand Price Tags On Datacenter Gear was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
There are many good processors out there, but there are few that are excellent and elegant inasmuch as they are co-designed for specific workloads and then do them very well. …
A64FX Arm Chip Gets A Big Push From Cray was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When you are always looking for what platform architecture will be mainstream, you have to look at what those on the bleeding edge are doing to see what the leading edge might do, which in turn tells you what everyone else might eventually do. …
Oil And Gas Giants Build Up Their Strategic GPU Reserves was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is a rare HPC cluster that is actually upgraded – meaning some of the components in the servers or the networks or the storage that comprise the system are swapped out somewhere about halfway through its lifecycle and replaced with cheaper, faster, or more capacious components. …
The HPC Community Should Lead In Composability was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The importance of achieving exascale computing has been discussed at great length in this publication and elsewhere. …
Tooling Up For Exascale was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
The Next Platform has been tracking momentum with FPGAs over the last several years with particular emphasis on the role programmable devices will continue to play in application acceleration as well as in computational storage and modern datacenter networks. …
What is The Next FPGA Platform? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
For those who have expressed concern about the slow pace of Arm’s adoption in HPC, Brent Gorda is advocating the need for patience. …
Arm’s Methodical March to HPC Adoption was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
There is much at stake in the world of datacenter inference and while the market has not yet decided its winners, there are finally some new metrics in the bucket to aid decision-making. …
MLPerf Inference Results Offer Glimpse into AI Chip Performance was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
For much of the decade, a debate around Arm was whether it would fulfill its promise to become a silicon designer with suppliers of any significance to datacenter hardware. …
Attacking The Datacenter From The Edge Inward was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Companies who offer software-defined products, by definition, rely on hardware providers in order to offer something useful to customers. …
Qumulo Eyes More OEMs As It Refreshes HPE Partnership was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
The memory and I/O wall are arguably the two most intractable bottlenecks in the modern datacenter. …
Backs Up Against The Memory And I/O Walls was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
The Forschungszentrum Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC) in Germany will soon be home to Europe’s first D-Wave quantum computer. …
D-Wave Takes Quantum Leap in Europe was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.