The CPU does not rule the computing roost when it comes to machine learning training, but it still has a role when it comes to machine learning inference and for other kinds of data analytics related to machine learning. …
The CPU Still Matters In The AI Stack was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The competition for the compute engines in hybrid HPC and AI supercomputer systems is heating up, and it is beginning to look a bit like back to the future with Cray on the rise and AMD also revitalized. …
Cray, AMD Tag Team On 1.5 Exaflops “Frontier” Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Hardware is the most tangible part of any system, and it is the aspect of the system that tends to get the most attention. …
Starting Thinking About AI Workflows, Not Just AI Platforms was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
As the largest buyer of supercomputers of any government agency in the world, the US Department of Energy (DOE) has relied on the relentless improvement of semiconductors to pursue the science it needs to advance the nation’s energy goals. …
DoE on Collision Course with End of Moore’s Law was written by Michael Feldman at .
DataDirect Networks announced it is purchasing Nexenta, a software-defined storage (SDS) specialist based in Silicon Valley. …
DDN Adds Nexenta to Expanding Storage Empire was written by Michael Feldman at .
One reason China has a good chance of hitting its ambitious goal to reach exascale computing in 2020 is that the government is funding three separate architectural paths to attain that milestone. …
China Fleshes Out Exascale Design for Tianhe-3 Supercomputer was written by Michael Feldman at .
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have notched some noticeable wins as a platform for machine learning, Microsoft’s embrace of the technology in Azure being the most notable example. …
FPGAs Open Gates in Machine Learning was written by Michael Feldman at .
Although artificial intelligence is relatively new to the HPC scene, it can arguably cast as the quintessential high performance computing workload. …
AI Forces Storage and I/O Rethink was written by Michael Feldman at .
By all accounts, artificial intelligence is still in its early days. …
An Evolving View of AI Infrastructure was written by Michael Feldman at .
Considering all of the hundreds of different moving parts, as gauged by different types of features and services, that Amazon Web Services delivers on its public cloud, and the ever-increasing complexity of the AWS platform, it is pretty amazing that the cloud juggernaut can delivery pretty consistently growing revenue growth. …
AWS Is Now The Largest Systems Business In The World was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
As enterprises shift more of their workloads into public clouds and grow out their multicloud strategies – many are using three or more public clouds for their applications and data to as much protect them against problems with the cloud provider as to take advantage of particular strengths that each cloud provider offer – there can be the tendency to think that many will end up putting everything in the cloud. …
Dell, VMware Team Up To Tackle The Hybrid Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
The edge has caught the imagination of IT vendors, who envision a place well outside of the confines of the central datacenter but not quite in the cloud where the vast amounts of data that are being generated by billions of devices, systems and sensors can be quickly captured, stored, processed and analyzed in as close to real time as possible. …
Common Componentry Is The Key to Edge Architectures was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The market for servers used to be a lot more predictable in the past, with a portion of the tens millions of companies worldwide buying machinery in their own cycles that more or less coincided with the global gross domestic product. …
Is That Canary In The Datacenter Feeling Dizzy? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
It is no accident that quantum computing is being undertaken by some of the biggest IT companies in the world. …
An Entirely Different Kind of Quantum Computer was written by Michael Feldman at .
Multi socket servers have been around since the dawn of enterprise computing. …
Why Single-Socket Servers Could Rule the Future was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Businesses and government agencies are deploying AI at breakneck speeds. But in the rush to stay ahead, or at least not fall too far behind, organizations are having to confront some hard truths. …
Why AI Adoption Leaves Customers Dazed and Confused was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
It is easy to focus on the specific accelerators and processors for deep learning training and inference and herald these as the enablers of what is next in AI. …
The AI I/O Bottleneck Pushes Creative Approaches to Storage was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
If this is truly the age of heterogeneous supercomputers, then the system installed earlier this month at the University of Tsukuba is its poster child. …
Supercomputer Mixes Streams with CPU, GPU, and FPGA was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
It is difficult not to be impressed with the rapid adoption of OpenStack since the open source cloud infrastructure software platform was first released almost 10 years ago, and that adoption has accelerated over the past few years. …
OpenStack Follows The Datacenter Out To The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Given its checkered history with acquisitions like the deal to buy the ill-fated Autonomy for its data analytics software, there was a bit of apprehension in 2015 when the pre-breakup Hewlett-Packard announced it was buying wireless networking vendor Aruba Networks for $3 billion. …
Applications Will Drive Infrastructure At The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at .