Not every HPC or analytics workload – meaning an algorithmic solver and the data that it chews on – fits nicely in a 128 GB or 256 GB or even a 512 GB memory space, and sometimes the dataset is quite large and runs best with a larger memory space rather than carving it up into smaller pieces and distributing across nodes with the same amount of raw compute. …
If hardware doesn’t scale well, either up into a more capacious shared memory system or out across a network of modestly powered nodes, there isn’t much you can do about it. …
Maximizing the aggregate amount of compute that can be brought to bear for any given pile of money is what traditional high performance computing is all about. …
The rumors were right, and AMD president and chief executive officer Lisa Su is indeed printing out a tower of stock to acquire FPGA maker Xilinx for what amounts to about $35 billion and, as it turns out, she is relinquishing her position as president to Victor Peng, chief executive at Xilinx, to close the deal. …
Somewhere nearly a decade ago, we made a joke when looking at the rise of the hyperscalers and cloud builders. …
Success in any endeavor is not just about having the right idea, but having that idea at the right time and then executing well against that plan. …
We have argued, even a decade and a half before The Next Platform was founded, that no one would ever move all of their IT infrastructure to a utility, what we now call a public cloud. …
Speaking very generally, investment in capability-class supercomputers by national governments tends to scale with gross domestic product. …
What is the hardest job at Intel, excepting whoever is in charge of the development of chip etching processes and the foundries that implement it? …
Security is one of those necessary things that should not be an afterthought, but often is, and ideally is so invisible that it doesn’t get in the way of applications and the infrastructure it runs on. …
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