Whether we want to term it HPC, AI, hyperscale, or something in between to apply to large-scale enterprise, there are fundamental changes afoot for big organizations with large clusters that are doing double (or quadruple) duty with production workloads and the new integration of machine learning. …
HPC or AI: Composability is Still King was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
It is no secret that the big three commercial Hadoop distributors have been running into headwinds in recent years as more workloads and data have made their way into the public cloud and that these Hadoop platform providers have spent a lot of money and time to expand their stacks beyond the basic open source Hadoop. …
Hadoop Pioneer MapR Faces An Uncertain Future was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Optical computing, a technology that traces its roots back to the 1930s, is enjoying something of a revival these days. …
Startup Looks To Light Up Machine Learning was written by Michael Feldman at .
It was a long time coming but AMD is finding its footing again in the high performance computing space. …
AMD Puts Epyc In The HPC Driver’s Seat was written by Michael Feldman at .
Earlier in May during The Next AI Platform event in San Jose, we conducted live, technical interviews with a broad range of experts in various areas of deep learning hardware. …
AI Chip Leads Debate Training, Inference Accelerator Trends was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
The quantum computing effort at Honeywell appears to be heating up. …
Honeywell One Step Closer To Universal Quantum Computer was written by Michael Feldman at .
The most interesting thing about Hewlett Packard Enterprise has nothing to do with its many products in compute, storage, and networking, or even its recent $1.3 billion deal to acquire supercomputer maker Cray. …
Selling Distributed Public Cloud, One Rack At A Time was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
At The Next AI Platform event on May 9 in San Jose, we brought together a wide range of people leading the charge throughout the AI infrastructure stack. …
I/O Bubbles to Top of AI Infrastructure Conversations was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Storage is no longer an afterthought when it comes to systems of any reasonable scale. …
In the Age of AI, Storage is No Longer an Afterthought was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Earlier this week we focused on the entry of FPGA maker, Achronix, and their strategy to tackle the high end of this market with a datacenter-focused, 7nm device expected to emerge later this year. …
Rerouting the Conventional Datacenter FPGA was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
When the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) is deployed in the next decade, along side it will be a supercomputer tasked to process the deluge of astronomical data that the instrument will collect from the skies. …
Designing the SKA Supercomputer Platform was written by Michael Feldman at .
The commercial realization of artificial intelligence has companies scrambling to develop the next big hardware technology breakthrough for this multi-billion dollar market. …
The Silicon Photonics Key to Building Better Neural Networks was written by Michael Feldman at .
When it comes to competition at the high end of the FPGA market, Xilinx and Altera (now part of Intel) are the two monolithic players, capturing the lions share of use cases. …
FPGA Upstart Takes Careful Aim at High-End Market was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
We have published a number of stories lately that talk about the innovative uses of Intel’s 3D XPoint Optane persistent memory modules, which are a key component of the company’s “Cascade Lake” Xeon SP systems and which are also becoming a foundational technology in clustered storage based on NVM-Express over Fabrics interconnects from a number of storage upstarts. …
Those Without Persistent Memory Are Fated To Repeat It was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has reached the top of the HPC sector in an unconventional way, but one that could prove truly transformative for its new acquisition, legendary supercomputer maker Cray. …
With Cray Deal, HPE Finally Enters The HPC Big Leagues was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Hailo, an AI startup based in Israel, has released its initial chip that the company claims is “the world’s top performing deep learning processor,” with the Hailo-8 chip claimed to deliver 26 tera-operations pers second (TOPS), while consuming only a few watts of power. …
Startup Claims Performance Leadership With New AI Edge Chip was written by Michael Feldman at .
While exascale systems, even at the single precision computational capability commonly used in the oil and gas industry, will cost on the order of $250 million, that cost pales in comparison to the capital outlay of drilling exploratory deep water wells, which can cost $100 million a pop. …
DUG Sets Foundation For Exascale HPC Utility With Xeon Phi was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
In the fast-paced world of algorithmic trading, speed is of the essence – not just for the execution of the trades themselves, but also for developing the trading models that are becoming obsolete in increasingly shorter timeframes. …
GPUs Set High Water Mark for Financial Trading Algorithm was written by Michael Feldman at .
Five years ago, Lenovo spent almost $4.5 billion to buy IBM’s X86 server business and Google’s Motorola mobile phone unit, moves that instantly made the company a top-tier player in the datacenter and more competitive in the lucrative global smartphone market. …
Lenovo Puts An Edge On Infrastructure was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Intel’s struggles to get its 10 nanometer processors out the door has forced the company to do some serious soul-searching. …
Intel Gives Moore’s Law A Makeover was written by Michael Feldman at .