Any aspiring server processor architecture seems to have a new rite of passage, and that is to be deployed in the Packet bare metal cloud. … “Ampere Arm Makes The Packet Processor Rite Of Passage”
Ampere Arm Makes The Packet Processor Rite Of Passage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
At the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory a team led by C.S. … “Summit Supercomputer Brings Vision of Endless Clean Energy Closer”
Summit Supercomputer Brings Vision of Endless Clean Energy Closer was written by Matt Proud at .
The company best known for its Windows operating systems and related client and server software but also one of the big five cloud players on Earth is getting into the edge computing business with a set of Azure offerings designed to put compute resources a lot closer to the customer’s data. … “Microsoft Stretches Azure Cloud To The Edge”
Microsoft Stretches Azure Cloud To The Edge was written by Michael Feldman at .
For the first decade that Amazon Web Services was in operation, its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) raw compute was available in precisely one flavor: Intel Xeon. … “AWS Adds More Epyc Compute To EC2”
AWS Adds More Epyc Compute To EC2 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The conversational AI created by IBM called Project Debater is designed to have a formal debate with a person. … “IBM Project Debater Speaks To The Future Of AI”
IBM Project Debater Speaks To The Future Of AI was written by Paul Teich at .
It is no secret that Intel has been working to get its “Cascade Lake” processors, the second generation of its Xeon SP family to market as early as possible this year and to ramp sales at the same time that X86 server rival AMD is expected to get its second generation “Rome” Epyc processors in the field. … “A First Peek At Cascade Lake Xeons Ahead Of Launch”
A First Peek At Cascade Lake Xeons Ahead Of Launch was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The government of the United Kingdom is plunking down £79 million to purchase and operate ARCHER2, the country’s soon-to-be national supercomputer on track to be installed at the University of Edinburgh next year. … “UK’s ARCHER2 Supercomputer Aims Squarely At The CPU Bullseye”
UK’s ARCHER2 Supercomputer Aims Squarely At The CPU Bullseye was written by Michael Feldman at .
There is a rumor going around that a certain hyperscaler is going to be augmenting its GPU-based machine learning training and will be adopting Intel’s Nervana Neural Network Processor (NNP) for at least some of its workloads. … “How Facebook Might Find Nervana For Machine Learning Training”
How Facebook Might Find Nervana For Machine Learning Training was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
In fact, a more salacious title might have said it will not be threat in most of our career spans, if in our lifetimes at all. … “Quantum No Threat to Supercomputing as We Know It”
Quantum No Threat to Supercomputing as We Know It was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
If you want to see what real competition might look like at some point in the future of the server racket, look no further than the Ethernet switch market, where switch ASICs and the companies that build switches alike have to fight for every dollar and make it up in volume every year without pause. … “Relentless Competition Drives Down Ethernet Switch Costs”
Relentless Competition Drives Down Ethernet Switch Costs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
As the center of gravity shifts from compute to data, architectures are responding by moving the former a lot closer to the latter. … “Computational Storage Takes Data Locality To The Extreme”
Computational Storage Takes Data Locality To The Extreme was written by Michael Feldman at .
When it comes to supercomputing, Singapore is certainly not the first country that comes to mind. … “Singapore To Boost Its Supercomputing Capacity Ten-Fold”
Singapore To Boost Its Supercomputing Capacity Ten-Fold was written by Michael Feldman at .
At this point in the history of the IT business, it is a foregone conclusion that accelerated computing, perhaps in a more diverse manner than many of us anticipated, is the future both in the datacenter and at the edge. … “The Still Expanding Market For GPU Compute”
The Still Expanding Market For GPU Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
It wasn’t so long ago that only supercomputing centers had to resort to fancy cooling technology to keep their systems running smoothly and at peak performance. … “Dealing With Density In The Datacenter And Beyond”
Dealing With Density In The Datacenter And Beyond was written by Michael Feldman at .
As one of the dominant hyperscalers in the world, Microsoft is out there on the cutting edge, driving efficiencies on every front it can in server, storage, switching, software, and datacenter design. … “On The Hot Seat In The Hyperscale Datacenter”
On The Hot Seat In The Hyperscale Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
In the modern distributed computing world, which is getting ever more disaggregated and some might say discombobulated, as every day passes, the architecture of the network in the datacenter is arguably the most important factor in determining if applications will perform well or not. … “How To Benefit From Facebook’s New Network Fabric”
How To Benefit From Facebook’s New Network Fabric was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
When Facebook open sourced the hardware and datacenter designs of its very first homegrown datacenter in Prineville, Oregon nearly eight years ago, creating the Open Compute Project, it was an act of enlightened self-interest. …
Open Compute Takes Root Outside Of Hypercalers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
In a wide-ranging keynote address that ran nearly three hours at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang talked up the company’s successes and new products across its graphics, robotics, and AI and HPC lineups. …
Data Science Sparks The Gap Between HPC And Hyperscale was written by Michael Feldman at .
As expected, Intel will be the prime contractor for the first exascale supercomputer in the United States, which Argonne National Laboratory expects to be operational and capable of sustained exaflops performance by the end of 2021. …
Intel To Take On OpenPower For Exascale Dominance With Aurora was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
To understand how far natural language processing (NLP) has progressed in the past decade and how fast it is evolving now, we need to update Alan Turing’s thought experiment on how to test an AI for conversational intelligence to a 21st Century context and methodology. …
Modernizing The Turing Test For 21st Century AI was written by Paul Teich at .