It is hard to find a more hyperbolic keynote title than, “A New Computing Model” but given the recent explosion in capabilities in both hardware and algorithms that have pushed deep learning to the fore, Nvidia’s CEO keynote at this morning’s GPU Technology Conference kickoff appears to be right on target. …
There is an old adage that the best way to predict the future is to create it. …
The Open Compute Project started by Facebook nearly five years ago is in many respects a tier one server maker a tier one server maker that just so happens to have multiple manufacturers etching motherboards and bending metal instead of one. …
It is like the world is turned on its head.
What is the last place on earth where a massive number of disk drives will be unplugged? …
Just because computing and storage are commodities does not mean, by any stretch of the imagination, that they are inexpensive. …
When the founding committer of the Spark in-memory computing framework becomes the CEO of a company that has dropped out of stealth mode and will very likely soon be offering support for a new storage caching layer for the modern, distributed computing era that will span beyond Spark, you have to stop and take notice. …
It would be far beyond the purview of The Next Platform to have deep insight to the complexity, scope, and scale of the Chinese economy. …
With the Mobile World Congress kicking off next week in Barcelona, the IT market will for a few days be focusing a little more than usual on the infrastructure that underpins the mobile services that we all increasingly depend on in our day to day lives. …
Breaking into the datacenter with a new chip architecture is probably more difficult than getting by the security in a modern glass house and literally breaking into it, either physically or digitally over the wire. …
The high end of the computing industry has always captivated us, and we still find the forces at work in the upper echelons of the datacenters of the world, and the hardware and software that is created to run the largest and most complex workloads found there, fascinating. …
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