Intel has made another big move toward its ambition to dominate the artificial intelligence space in the datacenter, acquiring Israeli AI chipmaker Habana Labs for $2 billion. …
Intel Hedges Its AI Bets With Habana Labs Buy was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
Competition in and of itself does not directly drive innovation – customer needs that might be met by some other product is really what makes suppliers hop to and get the lead out. …
Amping Up The Arm Server Roadmap was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Hyperion Research has declared 2019 as the year that high performance computing in the cloud hit a “tipping point.” Cloud spending for HPC work is projected to jump from just under $2.5 billion in 2018 to approximately $4 billion by the end of 2019. …
HPC In The Cloud Rolls Through An Inflection Point was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
If hyperscalers, cloud builders, HPC centers, enterprises, and both OEMs and ODMs like one thing, it is a steady drumbeat of technology enhancements to drive their datacenters forward. …
Broadcom Launches Another Tomahawk Into The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
High performance computing has yet to fully embrace the cloud, but the benefits of the pay-as-you-go model is drawing in more HPC users with each passing year. …
Cloud-Based Engineering is Poised for Takeoff was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
For those involved with large-scale system planning, design, and procurement for campus-wide supercomputers, the target is balance. …
Operating A Campus-Wide HPC Center Like An Enterprise was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As is the case with any new technology, there is a lot of hype and misunderstanding that comes along with something that actually improves some aspect of the system. …
Mythbusting Containers, The Los Alamos Way was written by Dan Olds at The Next Platform.
Enterprises are awash in data, and though many are tempted to save it all for later analysis – after all it worked for Google for many years – the store then analyze approach is poorly suited to environments with data sources that never stop. …
Everybody Has Big Data – How To Cope With It was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you are going to take on Intel in server processors, you have to play the same kind of long game that Intel itself played as it jumped from the desktop to the datacenter. …
Looking Ahead To Marvell’s Future ThunderX Processors was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When originally conceived, Japan’s Post-K supercomputer was supposed to be the country’s first exascale system. …
Fugaku Remakes Exascale Computing In Its Own Image was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
Server consumption is a pretty good proxy for how enterprises of all shapes and sizes feel about their particular business. …
Datacenters Are Hungry For Servers Again was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
One of the biggest storage decisions being considered by customers nowadays is how they want to manage their data: as cloud-like objects or as traditional files. …
Bringing Objects and Files Under One Roof was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Systems management has always been in a race to catch up with the innovation in systems, and it is always nipping at the heels. …
Time Is Always Money, Especially With HPC On The Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Not so long ago, there was a question whether exascale supercomputers would be built from a very large number of thin nodes containing only modest amounts of parallelism or a smaller number of fat nodes powered by specialized accelerators and powerful manycore processors. …
OpenACC Cozies Up To C, C++, and Fortran Standards was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
Amazon Web Services is at the top of an expanding mountain, the dominant player in a public cloud services space that is expected to push past $200 billion in revenue this year and make its way well beyond $300 billion by 2022. …
AWS Works Hard To Keep Ahead Of The Public Cloud Herd was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Finally, we get to test out how well or poorly a well-designed Arm server chip will do in the datacenter. …
Finally: AWS Gives Servers A Real Shot In The Arm was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It took decades for server virtualization to go mainstream, making their way from hardware and software partitions on mainframes three decades ago down to proprietary and Unix systems two decades ago to X86 servers with VMware, XenServer, Microsoft, and Red Hat all doing their part. …
Taking The PCI Express To Malleable Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There are just two Arm-powered supercomputers on the latest TOP500 rankings: the “Astra” system at Sandia National Laboratories and Fujitsu’s new A64FX prototype. …
Arm Aligns Its Server Ambitions To Those Of Its Partners was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
The confluence of big data, AI, and edge computing is reshaping the contours of high performance computing. …
Edging Toward Distributed HPC was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.
At our HPC Day event ahead of the SC19 conference, supercomputing expert and Linpack creator Jack Dongarra talked about his new HPL-AI benchmark. …
Tweaked Math Libraries Exploit AI Hardware For Traditional HPC was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.