Connect
Bringing Big Bandwidth To Large Enterprises
Hyperscalers change their datacenters – by which we mean whole generations of servers, storage, and switching – like regular enterprises upgrade server platforms. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
HPC
Inside Nvidia’s DGX SuperPOD Cluster
GPU chip maker Nvidia doesn’t just make the devices that end up in some of the largest supercomputers in the world. …
HPC
Doing The Math: The Reality Of HPC And AI Convergence
Throughout the many different types of system architecture in the past six decades, one thing has always remained true: Hardware always gets ahead of software, and rather than be too annoyed about it, there is another thing that is also true. …
HPC
Nvidia Makes Arm A Peer To X86 And Power For GPU Acceleration
Creating the Tesla GPU compute platform has taken Nvidia the better part of a decade and a half, and it has culminated in a software stack comprised of various HPC and AI frameworks, the CUDA parallel programming environment, compilers from Nvidia’s PGI division and their OpenACC extensions as well as open source GCC compilers, and various other tools that together account for tens of millions of lines of code and tens of thousands of individual APIs. …
HPC
Supercomputing Coiled To Spring To Exascale
If you want to rank in the world of supercomputing – as national and state governments as well as academic and research institutions most certainly do to prove their worth for research and development – then you need to have at least a petaflops ante now to play the game. …
AI
The Challenge Machine Learning Brings To Storage
Given our focus on the systems-level of AI machine building, storage was a big topic of discussion at the sold-out Next AI Platform event we hosted in May. …
Connect
Intel Finally Serious About Switching with Barefoot Networks Buy
In one fell swoop, Intel has finally filled a giant hole in its switching product line by acquiring upstart Barefoot Networks, the creator of the P4 programming language for networking devices and the “Tofino” family of Ethernet switch ASICs that make use of it. …
Control
Future Kubernetes Will Mimic What Facebook Already Does
If you want to see what the future of the Kubernetes container management system will look like, then the closed source, homegrown Tupperware container control system that Facebook has been using and evolving since 2011 – before Docker containers and Kubernetes were around – might be a good place to find inspiration. …
Compute
A New Era In Servers Is Starting Now
You know the world is a different place when shipping 2.58 million servers in a quarter feels like a slowdown, a disappointment, and perhaps a leading indicator of an overall economic slowdown in the world. …
AI
Where Does Nvidia Go In The Datacenter From Here?
We have to admit that it is often a lot more fun watching an upstart carve out whole new slices of business, or create them out of what appears to be thin air, in the datacenter than it is to watch how it will respond to intense competitive pressures and somehow manage to keep growing despite that. …