Compute
GPU Computing Still Nascent On Public Clouds
The public cloud is precisely as conservative and innovative as the enterprise customers that make use of it. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
AI
Memristors Mimic Brains For Massive Machine Learning
If you think that Hewlett-Packard is disappointed about the delays in getting the memristor to market, so is a tenacious inventor who has been working at the confluence of electronics and machine learning. …
Connect
RoCE Gives Ethernet Latency And Efficiency One-Two Punch
Ratcheting up the bandwidth on networks has been easier in many ways that getting low and predictable latencies for the transfer of information across those networks. …
Cloud
Cloud To Drive Nearly Half Of IT Infrastructure
Utility-style computing was not invented by Amazon Web Services, but you could make a credible argument that it was perfected by the computing arm of the retail giant. …
Compute
Building A Better . . . Hadoop Cluster
It you like technology, and you must because you are reading The Next Platform, then you probably like the idea of putting together the specs of a system and fitting it to a particular workload. …
Enterprise
Hybrid Arrays Fight Back Against All-Flash
There are almost too many ways to skin the storage cat in the enterprise datacenter these days. …
Connect
Why Google Thinks We Need 5 Petabit Switching
The gap between what a hyperscaler can build and what it might need seems to be increasing, and perhaps at a ridiculous pace. …
Enterprise
DDN Crosses Wolfcreek From HPC To The Enterprise
DataDirect Networks got its start as a storage provider for media companies back in 1998, but it sold its first products in into the supercomputing base that was looking for high capacity and screaming performance. …
Enterprise
Pushing Object Storage Toward Exascale
It seems pretty clear that storage systems will hit exascale a few years before compute infrastructure does, and there are two reasons for that. …