Cloud
The Unstoppable Intel Datacenter Group
Intel’s decades-long hard work in vanquishing most of the competing processor architectures from most of the workloads in the datacenter is paying off. …
Compute
Compute
Supercomputing Strategy Shifts in a World Without BlueGene
Last week when we broke the news about the upcoming 180-plus petaflops Aurora supercomputer set to be installed at Argonne National Lab in 2018, we spent our time scrambling for whatever feeds and speeds we could muster. …
Compute
Show Me The Money: What Bang For The HPC Buck?
Ever-increasing Greek prefixes of flops is what makes the simulations and models of the world hum, but we at The Next Platform like money. …
Compute
Building New Bridges Across the Memory Gap
There is little doubt that the memory ecosystem will heat up over the next five to ten years, with emerging technologies still in development that promise massive bandwidth, capacity, and price advancements. …
Compute
Details Emerge on Knights Hill Based Aurora Supercomputer
In the story we broke this morning about the forthcoming “Aurora” supercomputer set to be installed at Argonne National Laboratory—one of three pre-exascale machines that were part of the CORAL procurement between three national labs–we speculated that unlike the other two machines, which will be based on an OpenPower approach (Power9, Volta GPUs, and a new interconnect), the architecture of this system would be based on the third generation Knights family of chips from Intel, the Knights Hill processors. …
Cloud
How In The Hell Will Any Cloud Ever Catch AWS?
What doubles every 18 months or so and drives the IT industry? …
Cloud
With Nano Server And Containers, Microsoft Takes On Linux
Linux might have a 25 percent share of the server installed base, depending on who you ask, but it is The Next Platform of choice for new kinds of middleware and applications and has a much higher penetration on cloudy infrastructure. …
Code
Etsy Shows How To Be Just Crafty Enough With Systems
An online retail business for handmade and vintage goods might be a place where you would reasonably expect the IT department to have nearly free reign to create homegrown systems. …
Compute
Distributed Artificial Intelligence Climbs Out Of The Box
If complex artificial intelligence applications could easily be run on the fly across hundreds of thousands of compute cores around the world–and at a cost that significantly undercuts the top public cloud providers–a new world of potential uses and new applications will certainly flourish. …
Compute
What’s Really Driving HPC Decisions in Oil and Gas?
Not long ago, we learned that a new Cray XC40 supercomputer would be installed in the coming months for Norwegian oil and gas processing company Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS). …