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 …
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 – …
Hold on a second. Nvidia’s sales of chips and systems to supercomputer centers are not as big as we might be thinking. Not even close. Nvidia may have pioneered the idea of GPU acceleration for HPC simulation and modeling applications. It may have supplied the vast majority of the compute …
All of the great technologists live in the future. They bring it back to us with the help of countless engineers who derive the specifications from their vision and make ideas into reality and, ultimately, into money to repeat the process again. Nvidia has been in such a virtuous cycle …
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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 …
High performance computing hardware is really a software game, and the software we are referring to is at a very low level where deep expertise in libraries and solvers can make the difference between a capable device performing up to its specifications and, well, not so much. If you scan …
Paid Post Intel has been at the forefront of democratizing high performance computing (HPC) for the past three decades, and the HPC leader is taking its efforts up several more notches with the Aurora exascale HPC and AI supercomputer being designed and built by Intel and Hewlett Packard Enterprise for …
Per aspera, ad astra, an old Latin adage that means “through striving, to the stars,” is the root of the name for a hybrid HPC and AI supercomputer that the Grand Équipment National de Calcul Intensif (GENCI), working in conjunction with the Centre Informatique National de l’Enseignement Supérieur (CINES), one …
There are no greater bragging rights in supercomputing than those that come with top ten listing on the bi-annual list of the world’s most powerful systems – the Top500. And there are no countries more inclined to throw themselves (and billions) into that competition this decade than the U.S. and …
Let’s just cut right to the chase scene. The latest Top500 ranking of supercomputers, announced today at the SC21 supercomputing conference being held in St Louis, needed the excitement of an actual 1 exaflops sustained performance machine running the High Performance Linpack benchmark at 64-bit precision. And because the 1.5 …
Sometimes, you do put new wine in old bottles. This is what it looks like Meta – well, really its Facebook social network group – is doing as it adds a microserver node based on a custom AMD “Milan” Epyc 7003 processor to its datacenter infrastructure. Facebook has been one …
If you want to build the world’s largest social network, with 2.9 billion users, and the massive PHP stack that makes it into an application, you need a lot of infrastructure and you need it to arrive predictably. Through its own supply chain management and the Open Compute Project ecosystem, …
While Hungarian banks with collective names like OTP Group might not have household recognition here in the U.S., they do represent a notable portion of central Europe’s banking base with 17 million customers. OTP Group has ambitious plans to have Europe’s “fastest AI supercomputer” when it is fully deployed in …
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