Customers of Hewlett Packard Enterprise have one foot on the gas and one foot on the brakes at the same time that the company is transitioning from selling gear outright to customers to selling them subscriptions that spread the cost – and therefore HPE’s recognized revenues – out over time. …
As we are fond of pointing out, when it comes to high performance, low latency InfiniBand-style networks, Nvidia is not the only choice in town and has not been since the advent of InfiniBand interconnects back in the late 1990s. …
Given the exorbitant demand for compute and networking for running Ai workloads and the dominance of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co in making the compute engine chips and providing the complex packaging for them, you would think that the world’s largest foundry would be making money hands over fist in the second quarter. …
There is perhaps no better logo for Hewlett Packard Enterprise than the box. …
The interesting thing about the June 2023 rankings of the world’s most powerful supercomputers is not how it really has not changed all that much in the past six months, or that the June list is coming out in May. …
In the United States, the first step on the road to exascale HPC systems began with a series of workshops in 2007. …
If you think designing a new CPU from scratch is hard, you ought to try raising money to do it. …
The years-long run-up to the first exascale supercomputers was really a story about the ongoing competition between the United States and China. …
There’s no resting on your laurels in the HPC world, no time to sit back and bask in a hard-won accomplishment that was years in the making. …
If a few cores are good, then a lot of cores ought to be better. …
All Content Copyright The Next Platform