The public cloud has given enterprises a taste of infrastructure that is highly agile and scalable, that is deployed and managed by someone else and that can be paid for based on the resources use, and now they increasingly are looking for tech vendors to give them a similar experience with their on-premises and hybrid cloud environments. …
HPE To Sell Every Product As A Service By 2022 was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
GPU chip maker Nvidia doesn’t just make the devices that end up in some of the largest supercomputers in the world. …
Inside Nvidia’s DGX SuperPOD Cluster was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
We have followed a fair number of system trends for the oil and gas industry over the years. …
Energy Giant Takes the AI Supercomputer Route was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
The Barcelona Supercomputer Center will soon be the proud owners of the Europe’s first pre-exascale supercomputer. …
Europe Will Enter Pre-Exascale Realm With MareNostrum 5 was written by Michael Feldman at .
When the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers comes out twice a year, the top-ranked machines receive the lion’s share of attention. …
Dennard Scaling Demise Puts Permanent Dent in Supercomputing was written by Michael Feldman at .
Throughout the many different types of system architecture in the past six decades, one thing has always remained true: Hardware always gets ahead of software, and rather than be too annoyed about it, there is another thing that is also true. …
Doing The Math: The Reality Of HPC And AI Convergence was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Habana Labs has unveiled the Gaudi HL-2000, a custom-built AI processor that the company claims can outrun Nvidia’s best and brightest GPUs at training neural networks. …
AI Chip Startup Releases Training Accelerator to Challenge GPUs was written by Michael Feldman at .
Creating the Tesla GPU compute platform has taken Nvidia the better part of a decade and a half, and it has culminated in a software stack comprised of various HPC and AI frameworks, the CUDA parallel programming environment, compilers from Nvidia’s PGI division and their OpenACC extensions as well as open source GCC compilers, and various other tools that together account for tens of millions of lines of code and tens of thousands of individual APIs. …
Nvidia Makes Arm A Peer To X86 And Power For GPU Acceleration was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
If you want to rank in the world of supercomputing – as national and state governments as well as academic and research institutions most certainly do to prove their worth for research and development – then you need to have at least a petaflops ante now to play the game. …
Supercomputing Coiled To Spring To Exascale was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
There are two trends converging in AI inference and so far, only a small number of companies are enmeshed. …
Will Analog AI Make Mythic a Unicorn? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Wave Computing was one of the earliest AI chip startups that held significant promise, particularly with its initial message of a single architecture to handle both training and inference. …
AI Chip Startup Makes Training to Edge Inference Transition was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Given our focus on the systems-level of AI machine building, storage was a big topic of discussion at the sold-out Next AI Platform event we hosted in May. …
The Challenge Machine Learning Brings To Storage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
In one fell swoop, Intel has finally filled a giant hole in its switching product line by acquiring upstart Barefoot Networks, the creator of the P4 programming language for networking devices and the “Tofino” family of Ethernet switch ASICs that make use of it. …
Intel Finally Serious About Switching with Barefoot Networks Buy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
If you want to see what the future of the Kubernetes container management system will look like, then the closed source, homegrown Tupperware container control system that Facebook has been using and evolving since 2011 – before Docker containers and Kubernetes were around – might be a good place to find inspiration. …
Future Kubernetes Will Mimic What Facebook Already Does was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
At the recent EuroHPC Summit in Poland, the nature of Europe’s first homegrown HPC processor was described in some detail. …
Europe’s Homegrown HPC Compute Begins To Take Shape was written by Michael Feldman at .
AMD’s second-generation Epyc processor, code-named “Rome,” has yet to be released into the wild, but it is already racking up some impressive wins in academic supercomputing. …
AMD Garners Academic Credentials With New Supercomputer Wins was written by Michael Feldman at .
You know the world is a different place when shipping 2.58 million servers in a quarter feels like a slowdown, a disappointment, and perhaps a leading indicator of an overall economic slowdown in the world. …
A New Era In Servers Is Starting Now was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
More and more of the networking that is done in the datacenter is performed on software-defined networking whiteboxes rather than on proprietary black box machinery that was controlled by one supplier. …
Getting Smart About Software-Defined Networks was written by Daniel Robinson at .
The big players in the Hadoop data analytics market continue to hit headwinds in a rapidly evolving market that now includes competition from Amazon Web Services and top-tier major cloud providers that offer enterprises services for managing and analyzing the huge amounts of data that they are generating. …
Have The Public Clouds Killed Hadoop? was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
We have to admit that it is often a lot more fun watching an upstart carve out whole new slices of business, or create them out of what appears to be thin air, in the datacenter than it is to watch how it will respond to intense competitive pressures and somehow manage to keep growing despite that. …
Where Does Nvidia Go In The Datacenter From Here? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .