It is always an exciting time when there is a new compute engine coming into the market, and interest is particularly keen with any new Arm server chip entry. At this point, Amazon Web Services is by far the biggest consumer of Arm-based server processors in the world, with its …
At this point in supercomputing, it’s becoming an anomaly to see an upcoming double-digit petaflops system not using AMD for CPU and GPU, but the National Renewable Energy Laboratory will be taking a more traditional route for the “Kestrel” machine. The newly announced system will be capable of 44 petaflops …
It may have taken the better part of a decade, but the Itanium platform has yielded the kinds of profits that Hewlett Packard Enterprise long sought and rarely attained. Thanks to a final ruling in a long-running lawsuit with software giant Oracle over its pulling of support for its software …
Adam Selipsky spent 11 years helping Andy Jassy build Amazon Web Services from a fledgling compute and storage utility to the world’s largest public cloud services provider before leaving in 2016 to become CEO of analytics software maker Tableau Software. When Selipsky returned in May as AWS CEO – replacing …
Supercomputers are expensive, and getting increasingly so. Even if they are delivering impressive performance gains over the past decade, modern HPC workloads require an incredible amount of performance, and this is particularly true of any workload that is going to blend together traditional HPC simulation and modeling with some sort …
When we analyzed the financial reports coming out of hyperconverged platform maker Nutanix thirteen weeks ago, we lamented the fact that while Nutanix defined a new market and is one of the leaders in that market, it has been unable to expand its market fast enough to become a profitable …
The enterprise rush to embrace multicloud and hybrid cloud has not slowed over the past several years and, indeed, has only accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic as organizations rushed to leverage cloud services to adapt to their suddenly highly distributed IT environments, with most of their employees working remotely. And …
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Usually, innovation starts with the hyperscalers, HPC centers, and cloud builders of the world and spreads to the enterprise. But every once in a while, a technology establishes itself in large enterprises and the migrates upwards. This may be finally happening to Pure Storage, which was founded in 2009 and …
Institutions supporting HPC applications are finding increased demand for heterogeneous infrastructures to support simulation and modeling, machine learning, high performance data analytics, collaborative computing and analytics, and data federation. For some, the rise of Covid-19 emphasized the need for more flexible HPC solutions. As they turned to cloud deployments to …
While AWS is making it clear it will continue to innovate around GPUs for cloud-based machine learning, there was little doubt after today that the company’s own Trainium devices are set to outdo what even the top-line Nvidia GPU instances have achieved. In his keynote at AWS Re:Invent today, EC2 …
In the thirty years of the Top 500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, Thailand has never had a system rank high enough to secure a spot. Assuming teams run the Top 500 LINPACK benchmark in time for the next listing in June 2022, Thailand will have its first …
Few things sound more Intel than “StarLake” but in fact, AMD is at the heart of an announcement with Chinese hyperscale giant, Tencent. Tencent has already rolled out previous AMD Epyc based servers, including the SA1 (“Naples”) and more recently, SA2 based on AMD “Rome” processors but making the jump …
It is refreshing to find instances in the IT sector where competing groups with their own agendas work together for the common good and the improvement of systems everywhere. So it is with the absorption of the Gen-Z Consortium by the CXL Consortium. With this, CXL has emerged as the …
Patience in a slow-growing market is tough, but supercomputing cloud startup, Rescale, is reaping rewards for its persistence. When the company got its start in 2011, enterprises were just getting a handle on bursting to the cloud for excess capacity and in some cases, moving all operations off-prem. Cloud was …
A key trend in the ever-changing IT world is bringing whatever is needed – processing, storage, analytics, networking – closer to where the data is. The growing amounts of data being generated and number of datasets being created – and the valuable business information captured within all of that – …
And actually, one could say it is also far more than it appears. Three years ago, a team from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Google, and NASA Ames published a paper showing the first glimmer of quantum supremacy. For those who don’t follow quantum computing, in a nutshell this means …
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