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.
Under most circumstances, the major public cloud builders would like to use their own iron in their datacenters. …
Microsoft Brings IBM Power Iron To Azure Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Even before it launched a $1.3 billion acquisition of Cray back in May, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has had exascale aspirations. …
Inside HPE’s Gen-Z Switch Fabric was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
While the natural habitat of HPC storage is supercomputing and enterprise datacenters, the growing popularity of edge computing means sometimes that hardware must live outside its comfort zone. …
High Performance Storage Sets Sail was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
It had to happen sooner or later, and really, the wonder is that it hasn’t already happened, given the nature of the infrastructure buildouts at hyperscalers and cloud builders, the skittishness of enterprises due to the trade war between the United States and China, the uncertainty in Europe over the British exit, and general concern with macroeconomic issues because it has now been almost twelve years since the last recession. …
The Inevitable Slowdown In Server Spending was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The widening performance disparity between compute and I/O is not likely to get any better in the fast-approaching exascale era. …
Will HPC Centers Say ADIOS To POSIX I/O? was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
It would be convenient for everyone – chip makers and those who are running machine learning workloads – if training and inference could be done on the same device. …
Nvidia Shows Off Tech Chops With RC18 Inference Chip was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In July, VMware acquired Bitfusion, a company whose technology virtualizes compute accelerators with the goal of enabling modern workloads like artificial intelligence and data analytics to take full advantage of systems with GPUs or with FPGAs. …
Accelerating AI With GPU Virtualization In The Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
High performance computing isn’t what it used to be. Performance, in particular, has become a slippery metric as a result of the design constraints of modern clustered systems. …
The Myth Of Peak Performance was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has been aggressive in extending the tentacles of its GreenLake cloud-like IT consumption model since announcing the technology in mid-2018. …
HPE Takes VMware Cloud Users On Its Synergy Journey To Greenlake was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
If you think about it for a minute, it is amazing that any of the old-time IT suppliers, like IBM and Hewlett Packard, and to a certain extent now Microsoft and Dell, have persisted in the datacenter for decades or, in the case of Big Blue, for more than a century. …
To Be Always Surfing On Tectonic Shifts was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The San Diego Supercomputing Center is overdue for a new supercomputer and thanks to a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation, next year it will finally get one. …
SDSC Doubles Up Performance With Expanse Supercomputer was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
Processor hardware for machine learning is in their early stages but it already taking different paths. …
Habana Takes Training And Inference Down Different Paths was written by Michael Feldman at .
More than a decade ago, VMware and its new server virtualization technology represented significant threat to traditional OEMs like Dell, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard (now Hewlett Packard Enterprise) who were selling their boxes to enterprises that had to over-provision the systems they were bringing into make sure there was enough compute capacity to handle the biggest spikes in demand over the course of the year. …
VMware’s Head – And Future – Is In The Clouds was written by Jeffrey Burt at .