The hybrid cloud is convincing established players that they need to play on both sides of the net, in the cloud (as well as the edge) and on premises. We’ve seen Amazon Web Services (with its Outposts appliances), Microsoft Azure (with Azure Stack), Google Cloud (with Anthos) and Oracle Cloud …
In a world where Moore’s Law is slowing and hardware has to be increasingly co-designed with the system software stack and the applications that run above it, the matrix of possible combinations of hardware is getting wider and deeper. This, more than anything else, shows that the era of general …
Lenovo became a powerhouse in the HPC and supercomputer spaces back in 2014, when it bought IBM’s System x server division for $2.1 billion in a deal that also saw it license storage and system management software from Big Blue. The acquisition vaulted the company into a highly competitive field …
While a lot of software for creating and managing scale comes out of supercomputing centers, hyperscalers, and the largest public cloud builders, there is still plenty of innovation being done by people who need to tackle scale outside of these upper echelon organizations. Two of them are Mitchell Hashimoto and …
We said this a long time ago, and we are going to say it again now. One big reason that Intel paid $16.7 billion to buy FPGA maker Altera was that it was hedging on the future of compute in the datacenter and that it could see how the hyperscalers …
Deepak Patil knows all about the cloud. For the last third of his more than 15 years with Microsoft, Patil was one of the key figures behind the launch of Azure, the enterprise software giant’s public cloud. Azure has grown steadily and become the second-largest public cloud provider, gaining ground …
Businesses are judged quarter on quarter and year on year, but you have to look at the long haul and the flow of all business over time to really judge properly. That’s why we are data wonks here at The Next Platform. And it is also why we are relieved …
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The Fugaku supercomputer, based on the Arm-driven A64FX processor and custom Fujitsu Tofu-D fabric, has been proven architecturally on a number of HPC and large-scale AI benchmarks and has drawn considerable attention among the supercomputing set. Among institutions interested in the capabilities of A64X is the National Science Foundation (NSF) …
The amount of data being created is continuing to rise exponentially and it’s coming in all shapes and sizes and from myriad locations. It’s structured and – increasingly – unstructured and being generated in the cloud, the edge and on premises by everything from the largest supercomputers to the small …
The Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center (EPPC) is up and running with its Cerebras CS-1 waferscale system and is already working with European companies in biomedical and cybersecurity arenas in addition to its own research into different programming and AI models and projects in natural language processing and genome-wide association studies. …
There’s an AI unicorn startup you might not have even heard of. That is, if you live in the Western hemisphere. For those who follow AI processor companies, it is far too easy to overlook the innovations of APAC companies beyond the hyperscalers (Alibaba, Tencent, etc.). We pay attention here …
There are some unique developments afoot at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), which stands to reason for the only HPC site to be housed in a former church. The site will be home to the world’s first RISC-V-based supercomputer, a collaboration underpinned by commercial RISC-V company, SiFive, whom we talked …
PROMO Today’s AI and HPC systems can encompass 1,000s of CPUs and GPUs, all drawing on vast amounts of memory and storage. And, if we’re honest, all over woefully inadequate interconnects. Tomorrow’s AI models and HPC workloads will only get bigger and more demanding – NLP models increased three orders …
The tight linkage between chip designs and chip manufacturing processes has caused its share of havoc in the IT sector, and it is getting worse as Moore’s Law has slowed and Dennard scaling died a decade ago. Wringing more performance out of devices while trying to keep a lid on …
Moore’s Law is not just a simple rule of thumb about transistor counts, it’s an economic, technical, and developmental force—and one strong enough to push some of the largest chipmakers to future-proof architectural approaches. That force pushed some of AMD’s lead architects to reroute around the once-expected cadence of new …
If the workload-specific datacenter dominates in the near term, it could be RISC-V’s time to shine. While most often associated with embedded devices, there is a push to use RISC-V as the base for AI and targeted workloads, giving the ISA a springboard into much larger systems. So far, there …
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