In a series of articles over the last two weeks, we have taken a close look at how the storage stack might be changing for next-generation high performance computing sites—not to mention similarly sized installations for very large-scale enterprise. …
Last week, in an article on the pending death of the parallel file system, a note was made about an effort out of Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) called MarFS, which will serve as the intermediary solution to allow very large centers to take advantage of cloud-style object storage using a more familiar POSIX approach. …
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. …
There is a simple test to figure out just how seriously social network Facebook is taking machine learning, and it has nothing to do with research papers or counting cat pictures automagically with neural networks. …
For Google, Baidu, and a handful of other hyperscale companies that have been working with deep neural networks and advanced applications for machine learning well ahead of the rest of the world, building clusters for both the training and inference portions of such workloads is kept, for the most part, a well-guarded secret. …
Software wants to be free, or more precisely, the organizations that deploy software for specific functions in their platform stack want to be able to do so on the systems that they choose rather than the ones that a vendor that is fond of its hardware margins chooses. …
At the moment, there are two types of software container users, but in the long run, there will probably only be one. …
As the theme goes this year, what’s old is new again. …
It is hard to say exactly how much infrastructure revenue went up for grabs when IBM sold off its System x division to Lenovo last year, but in the HPC market, if you look at the data from IDC and Intersect360, which do detailed tracking of HPC organizations in terms of revenues and installed base, the numbers are not small. …
Proprietary and quasi-proprietary interconnects are nothing new to the supercomputing space, and in fact, this is where they still live and thrive and evolve. …
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