Cloud
Western Digital Drives HPC Simulation Scale On AWS
Any on premises HPC cluster has its own limits of scale and throughput. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Compute
The Transformation Of The Next HPE Continues
There are two camps of server makers in the world. Those that are aimed at hyperscalers and cloud builders, which buy in lots of 50,000 or 100,000 servers and which therefore have enough leverage for the tail to wag the manufacturing dogs. …
Compute
The Long Road Back To Utility Pricing For Systems
One of the big problems of servers, storage, and networking, oddly enough, is that in the individual elements in which they are sold, there is a perception that they are not all that expensive. …
Cloud
Google Wants Cloud Services Platform To Borg Your Datacenter
It has been our position from the beginning, when Google first open sourced the Kubernetes container controller, that it wanted for this to be the controller that ruled the datacenter. …
Compute
ARM Goes To War In The Datacenter With “Ares” Designs
When Arm Holdings, the division of the Softbank conglomerate that designs and licenses the core component of the processor architecture that bears its name, launched its Neoverse revamping of the Arm architecture for the datacenter and the edge last October, the company put the architecture on a strict annual cadence and promised to deliver 30 percent performance increases at the system level with each generation. …
Connect
Ethernet And The Future Of Data Networking
The need to host, process, and transmit more data, in less time and more securely, is putting huge strain on existing datacenter network, server, and storage architectures, with the demands of specific applications like artificial intelligence, machine learning, image recognition, and data analytics exacerbating the problem. …
AI
The Computing Needs Of Earth Are Not Yet Satisfied
To a certain way of looking at it, Nvidia has always been engaged in the high performance computing business and it has always been subject to the same kinds of cyclical waves that affect makers of supercomputers and enterprise systems. …
AI
IBM Mashes Up PowerAI And Watson Machine Learning Stacks
Earlier in this decade, when the hyperscalers and the academics that run with them were building machine learning frameworks to transpose all kinds of data from one format to another – speech to text, text to speech, image to text, video to text, and so on – they were doing so not just for scientific curiosity. …
Compute
Shasta Sets Up Cray For Commercial HPC And Supercomputing Expansion
If you look at the very long history of Cray, the company has done a remarkable job expanding its market, not just participating in it. …
Cloud
IBM Puffs Up Power Iron On Its Public Cloud
IBM, which arguably has the largest remaining big iron server business in the world, is one step closer to making systems based on its own Power processors peers to the Xeon-based machinery that utterly dominates its IBM Cloud public cloud. …