Compute
The Need For A New HPC Architectural Direction: Revolution or Evolution?
Baseball legend and locker-room philosopher Yogi Berra once imparted this sage advice: “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” …
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Why Hyperconvergence Hasn’t Yet Taken Off At The High End
We spend a lot of time at The Next Platform thinking about technologies that trickle down from on high – whether they come from HPC centers or hyperscalers – and gradually go mainstream and end up in the datacenters of large enterprises. …
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Future Systems: Pitting Fewer Fat Nodes Against Many Skinny Ones
Lining up the architectures of future supercomputers is interesting because it gives us a glimpse of what may be in the corporate datacenter many more years out. …
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Amadeus Takes Off With Containers And Clouds
Before there were Internet-based search engines that anybody could use to look for anything, one of the toughest jobs in computing was helping people work through travel agencies to book flights, cars, and hotels when they travel. …
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Future Systems: Intel Ponders Breaking Up The CPU
When it comes to systems, the first thing that most people think of is compute. …
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Future Systems: Can Exascale Revive AMD?
We spend a lot of time in the upper stratospheres of computing among the hyperscale and HPC crowds here at The Next Platform, and the consistent theme across these two similar but often very different customers bases is that we need a new system architecture that provides better performance at a lower cost and in a lower thermal envelope and an expanded memory hierarchy that can help with those goals. …
Cloud
Why Hyperscalers And Clouds Are Pushing Intel Into FPGAs
It has been almost two months since Intel announced its blockbuster $16.7 billion deal to acquire FPGA maker Altera, which will allow the world’s largest chip maker to move from fixed function into programmable devices and potentially shake up the entire spectrum of computing, from handhelds all the way to datacenters. …
Cloud
Cloud Not Growing Fast Enough For Intel
It is hard to believe, but one of highest-growth markets that the IT industry has ever seen – the transition from bare metal machines to fully orchestrated virtual infrastructure that we have come to call clouds – is not rocketing up fast enough for the world’s largest chip maker. …
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Google Sees Long, Expensive Road Ahead For Quantum Computing
As was the case over seven decades ago in the early days of digital computing – when the switch at the heart of the system was a vacuum tube, not even a transistor – some of the smartest mathematicians and information theorists today are driving the development of quantum computers, trying to figure out the best physical components to use to run complex algorithms. …
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Supercomputer Chip Startup Scores Funding, DARPA Contract
Back in March, we introduced a chip upstart taking aim at the efficiency of future exascale systems called Rex Computing. …