At the dawn of the mainframe era, Thomas Watson is said to have remarked that perhaps only five such systems would ever be sold in the world and that perhaps, just one machine would be needed to solve the most intractable problems. …
The Cloud is Where Quantum Competition Gets Real was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Over the last several years we have seen many new hardware architectures emerge for deep learning training but this year, inference will have its turn in the spotlight. …
First Wave of Spiking Neural Network Hardware Hits was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Historically and traditionally, academic supercomputing centers have been very open about the architecture and setup of their HPC systems, and it makes sense if you think about it. …
Fishing For Insight Into The Ocean Economy With HPC And AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
It doesn’t take a machine learning algorithm to predict that server makers are trying to cash in on the machine learning revolution at the major nexus points on the global Internet. …
Unifying Big Data And Machine Learning, Cisco Style was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
It has been nearly five years since Michael Dell lined up $24 billion in cash to take the IT company that bears his name private, and it has been nearly four years since Dell announced its mammoth $67 billion deal to acquire enterprise storage maker EMC and its server virtualization minion, VMware. …
For Whom The Dell Toils was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
There are times when tectonic forces are at work in the IT world. …
Are Hyperscalers And Clouds Builders Smashing Up An IT Pangea? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
As France, Japan, China, and the United States vie to build the world’s first exascale computer, application and technology developers and researchers in each country are up against major hurdles. …
Europe’s Advantage in the Race to Exascale was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
If operating systems or server firmware had better isolation and workload scheduling software, the last decade of server virtualization in the datacenter might never had happened. …
Future Clouds Could Be Just Containers On Bare Metal was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
At some point, every company that has equity, venture, or public investors, has to start being profitable. …
Nutanix Closes Big Deals, But Profits Still Elude was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Over the past two decades, VMware has built an enviable enterprise customer base of half a million unique customers for its technology to virtualize X86 servers. …
VMware Always Sees A Cloudy Future was written by Daniel Robinson at .
With Moore’s Law running out of steam, the chip design wizards at Intel are going off the board to tackle the exascale challenge, and have dreamed up a new architecture that could in one fell swoop kill off the general purpose processor as a concept and the X86 instruction set as the foundation of modern computing. …
Intel’s Exascale Dataflow Engine Drops X86 And Von Neuman was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Over the last few years we have detailed the explosion in new machine learning systems with the influx of novel architectures from deep learning chip startups to efforts from vendors and hyperscalers alike. …
One Deep Learning Benchmark to Rule Them All was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
The ProLiant server is still the workhorse for plowing datacenters and sowing money at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, much as it was for the datacenter division at Compaq nearly two decades ago. …
Fat And Hyperconverged Servers Save HPE’s Third Quarter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) will soon be home to a top-tier supercomputer with the 2019 arrival of the “Frontera” system. …
Cascade Lake at Heart of 2019 TACC Supercomputer was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Sometimes, if you stick around long enough in business, the market will come to you. …
System And Chip Architecture Shifts To A Heterogeneous World was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
The lines between the CPU, its main memory, the memory of accelerators, and various external storage class memories have been blurring for years, and the smudging and smearing is no more pronounced than with IBM’s Power9 family of server processors. …
IBM Power Chips Blur The Lines To Memory And Accelerators was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
It is intuitively obvious that most enterprises are want to embrace the public cloud, and they do not want to have a sole source of their cloudy compute, storage, and networking. …
Dell EMC Leans On VMware In The Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Making money from sand is not as easy as making money from oil, and the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, which has been assembling the GlobalFoundries chip making giant for the past decade is finding that out the hard way and as a consequence, the company is backing off on its development of 7 nanometer manufacturing techniques, which included a double whammy of traditional immersion lithography techniques as well as a move towards bleeding-edge extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology. …
The Datacenter Impact Of The GlobalFoundries 7 Nanometer Spike was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The last decade, and few years in particular, have brought a bevy of new architectures to bear for a market keen to understand what comes after Moore’s Law. …
A Rogues Gallery of Post-Moore’s Law Options was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
FPGAs might not have carved out a niche in the deep learning training space the way some might have expected but the low power, high frequency needs of AI inference fit the curve of reprogrammable hardware quite well. …
Xilinx Unveils xDNN FPGA Architecture for AI Inference was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .