Store
Can MongoDB Build A Humongous, And Profitable, Database Business?
When you want to build a software business in the 21st century successfully, you have to borrow some ideas from the 20th century. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Compute
The Long Term Profitability Of HPE Depends On GreenLake
It is the nature of the many businesses that Hewlett Packard Enterprise remains in, after spinning off printers, PCs, services, and software, that it still has many ups and downs and there is always one business that can pull down the others. …
HPC
The Final Frontier: Talking Exascale With Oak Ridge’s Jeff Nichols
Just ahead of the revelations about the feeds and speeds of the “Frontier” supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory concurrent with the International Supercomputing conference in Hamburg, Germany and the concurrent publishing of the summer Top500 rankings of supercomputers, we had a chat with Jeff Nichols, who has steered the creation of successive generations of supercomputers at Oak Ridge. …
Code
To Cure Iron Anemia With SYCL, Intel Buys Codeplay
Intel doesn’t want to just create a rival to the CUDA programming model and library stack so it can better compete against Nvidia in the GPU compute market. …
HPC
Opening Up The Future “Venado” Grace-Hopper Supercomputer At Los Alamos
There are many interpretations of the word venado, which means deer or stag in Spanish, and this week it gets another one: A supercomputer based on future Nvidia CPU and GPU compute engines, and quite possibly if Los Alamos National Laboratory can convince Hewlett Packard Enterprise to support InfiniBand interconnects in its capability class “Shasta” Cray EX machines, Nvidia’s interconnect as well. …
HPC
Frontier: Step By Step, Over Decades, To Exascale
Any time you build anything with more than 60 million parts, it is going to be a headache. …
HPC
At Long Last, HPC Officially Breaks The Exascale Barrier
Significant business and architectural changes can happen with 10X improvements, but the real milestones upon which we measure progress in computer science, whether it is for compute, storage, or networking, come at the 1,000X transitions. …
Compute
Ampere Roadmap Has Four Future Arm Server Chips
This time last year, Arm server CPU startup Ampere Computing provided a roadmap running out through 2023 describing its future products, aimed at demonstrating its commitment to the idea of Arm server chips. …
Control
With VMware, Broadcom Has A Real Enterprise Software Stack
Once Dell spun out VMware on Wall Street, it was only a matter of time before someone would put together enough money to acquire it. …
Compute
Datacenter Becomes Nvidia’s Largest Business
Something that we have been waiting for a decade and a half to see has just happened: The datacenter is now the biggest business at Nvidia. …