The announcement last fall that top Hadoop vendors Cloudera and Hortonworks were coming together in a $5.2 billion merger – and reports about the financial toll that their competition took on each other in the quarters leading up to the deal – revived questions that have been raised in recent years about the future of Hadoop in an era where more workloads are moving into public clouds like Amazon Web Services (AWS) that offer a growing array of services that many of the jobs that the open-source technology already does. …
Breaking Out of the Hadoop Cocoon was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest incidence data, cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, exceeded only by heart disease. …
Aurora Exascale AI Supercomputer To Light A Path In The Cancer Fight was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Lenovo has partnered with Excelero, an up-and-coming NVM-Express solution provider that sells a scale-out software-defined storage platform. …
Lenovo Meshes with Software Defined Storage Specialist was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
By its very nature, high performance computing is conflicted. On the one hand, HPC belongs on the bleeding edge, trying out new ideas and testing new technologies. …
Back To The HPC Future With Next Generation AMD Epyc Processors was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Now that Optane Persistent Memory Modules, based on bit-addressable 3D XPoint memory, are finally available from Intel, everybody in the storage business is trying to figure out how to best make use of them. …
MemVerge Converged Storage Makes Clever Use Of Optane Memory was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Imagine for a second that you are Intel.
The few server CPU makers that remain in the market – AMD, IBM, Marvell, and Ampere – have more memory controllers on their sockets than you do. …
Prying Open The Lid On Intel’s Multichip Cascade Lake-AP was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
With the launch of the “Cascade Lake” processors, the second generation of its Xeon SP family of server CPUs, the fullness of the “Purley” server platform that we heard about way back in 2015 is finally being delivered. …
Intel Pushes Xeon SP To The Next Level With Cascade Lake was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
When Intel purchased Altera in 2015 for $16.7 billion, company officials predicted that up to a third of servers would be equipped with FPGAs by 2020. …
With AgileX, Intel Gets A Coherent FPGA Strategy was written by Michael Feldman at .
Add to the list of AI chip startups forthcoming new silicon based on the MiLDreD platform. …
AI Chip Startup Inches Forward with $800 Million in Series A was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
The promise of edge computing is to better deal with the massive amounts of data that are being created by the rapidly growing numbers of mobile devices, remote systems, and sensors that are connecting into the network and that are critical to the business. … “Getting A Handle On Data At The Edge”
Getting A Handle On Data At The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Any aspiring server processor architecture seems to have a new rite of passage, and that is to be deployed in the Packet bare metal cloud. … “Ampere Arm Makes The Packet Processor Rite Of Passage”
Ampere Arm Makes The Packet Processor Rite Of Passage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
At the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory a team led by C.S. … “Summit Supercomputer Brings Vision of Endless Clean Energy Closer”
Summit Supercomputer Brings Vision of Endless Clean Energy Closer was written by Matt Proud at .
The company best known for its Windows operating systems and related client and server software but also one of the big five cloud players on Earth is getting into the edge computing business with a set of Azure offerings designed to put compute resources a lot closer to the customer’s data. … “Microsoft Stretches Azure Cloud To The Edge”
Microsoft Stretches Azure Cloud To The Edge was written by Michael Feldman at .
For the first decade that Amazon Web Services was in operation, its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) raw compute was available in precisely one flavor: Intel Xeon. … “AWS Adds More Epyc Compute To EC2”
AWS Adds More Epyc Compute To EC2 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The conversational AI created by IBM called Project Debater is designed to have a formal debate with a person. … “IBM Project Debater Speaks To The Future Of AI”
IBM Project Debater Speaks To The Future Of AI was written by Paul Teich at .
It is no secret that Intel has been working to get its “Cascade Lake” processors, the second generation of its Xeon SP family to market as early as possible this year and to ramp sales at the same time that X86 server rival AMD is expected to get its second generation “Rome” Epyc processors in the field. … “A First Peek At Cascade Lake Xeons Ahead Of Launch”
A First Peek At Cascade Lake Xeons Ahead Of Launch was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The government of the United Kingdom is plunking down £79 million to purchase and operate ARCHER2, the country’s soon-to-be national supercomputer on track to be installed at the University of Edinburgh next year. … “UK’s ARCHER2 Supercomputer Aims Squarely At The CPU Bullseye”
UK’s ARCHER2 Supercomputer Aims Squarely At The CPU Bullseye was written by Michael Feldman at .
There is a rumor going around that a certain hyperscaler is going to be augmenting its GPU-based machine learning training and will be adopting Intel’s Nervana Neural Network Processor (NNP) for at least some of its workloads. … “How Facebook Might Find Nervana For Machine Learning Training”
How Facebook Might Find Nervana For Machine Learning Training was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
In fact, a more salacious title might have said it will not be threat in most of our career spans, if in our lifetimes at all. … “Quantum No Threat to Supercomputing as We Know It”
Quantum No Threat to Supercomputing as We Know It was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
If you want to see what real competition might look like at some point in the future of the server racket, look no further than the Ethernet switch market, where switch ASICs and the companies that build switches alike have to fight for every dollar and make it up in volume every year without pause. … “Relentless Competition Drives Down Ethernet Switch Costs”
Relentless Competition Drives Down Ethernet Switch Costs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .