It has been eight years since Arm announced its intentions to enter the server arena. …
Arm’s Chances In Servers May Hinge On Success In HPC was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
Bringing a new switch ASIC to market is no easy task, and it isn’t cheap, either. …
Innovium Boosts Switch Chip Performance Without A Process Shrink was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
D-Wave Systems is getting ready to roll out its next quantum annealing computer, a system that will encompass more than 5,000 low-noise qubits, as well as a new topology to connect them. …
Quantum Annealing Advances Woven Into Next-Gen D-Wave System was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
The ongoing journey to bring more enterprise high-performance computing (HPC) workloads into the cloud has been a bumpy one with its share of roadblocks and setbacks. …
HPC Eases Its Way Into The Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Good news is continuing to gather around AMD’s second-generation “Rome” Epyc processors. …
AMD Rome Epyc Processor Shatters Numeric Benchmarks was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
The European Exascale System InterconNect and Storage (ExaNeSt) project has wrapped up, having completed development of its prototype system and run a series of application benchmarks on it. …
Europeans Push FPGA-Powered Exascale Prototype Out the Door was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
It has been two decades since Juniper Networks, then the big upstart rival to Cisco Systems and others as the dot-com boom was rising towards its crescendo several years hence, took FreeBSD Unix and turned it into a network operating system that spanned both routers and switches. …
When Diverse Network ASICs Meet A Unifying Operating System was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Public clouds bring a lot of advantages to enterprises, such as more flexibility and scalability for their many of their workloads, a way to avoid expensive capital costs by using someone else’s infrastructure and having someone else manage it all, and the ability to pay only for the resources they use. …
One Service Mesh To Tie Google Anthos Together was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
AMD is definitely on a roll in the United States for future exascale systems, having won deals at both Oak Ridge National laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for their respective “Frontier” and “El Capitan” systems. …
AMD Revs Up HPC Variant As Rome Chips Ramp was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Arm Holdings has announced that the next revision of its ArmV8-A architecture will include support for bfloat16, a floating point format that is increasingly being used to accelerate machine learning applications. …
Arm Adds Muscle To Machine Learning, Embraces Bfloat16 was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
The dividing lines between system buses, system intraconnects, and system interconnects are getting more blurry all the time. …
Eating The Interconnect Alphabet Soup With Intel’s CXL was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We talked recently about the addition of new layers of performance in the storage stack and how users and storage architects are trying to make most effective use of those. …
Rumors of Disk’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The speed bumps with switch ASICs are coming fast and furious these days, and the datacenter is no longer dominated by the big switch incumbents such as Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks, which made their own chips, switches, and operating systems, and the networking divisions of server OEMs like Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which made some of their own gear – including ASICs – and acquired other companies to help build out their networking businesses – who sometimes also did their own ASICs. …
Everyone Will Want Higher Bandwidth And More Ports – Eventually was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you thought the gang at Intel were Moore’s Law biggest devotees, you probably haven’t heard Philip Wong expound on the subject. …
TSMC Thinks It Can Uphold Moore’s Law For Decades was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
It used to be far easier to talk about storage performance, cost, and options. …
Keeping Pace with Rapid Storage Sophistication was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The apocryphal Chinese curse – “May you live in interesting times” – certainly applies to the datacenter of the early 21st century. …
Networking Needs More Than Incremental Innovation was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There has been a quiet revolution in storage happening and for once, it has not been led by the decades-old companies catering exclusively to on-prem deployments. …
When it Comes to File Services, the Cloud is Catching Up was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) has selected five new small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to receive access to supercomputers and HPC expertise under its SHAPE initiative. …
PRACE Supercomputing Resource Awards Spread The HPC Gospel was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
Ayar Labs looks like it is just about ready to put its optical I/O chiplet technology into commercial datacenter products. …
On-Chip Optical Links Are One Step Closer To Reality was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
When Dell EMC more than a year ago introduced the PowerMax storage array as the successor to the company’s all-flash VMAX offerings, the company touted the system’s readiness to leverage the NVM-Express (NVMe) protocol and, more importantly, its ability to serve as a gateway to NVMe-over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) and storage-class memory (SCM), both of which would address the growing demand for better performance and latency. …
Dell EMC’s PowerMax is Now All NVM-Express, Persistent Storage was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.