The hyperscalers of the world are increasingly dependent on machine learning algorithms for providing a significant part of the user experience and operations of their massive applications, so it is not much of a surprise that they are also pushing the envelope on machine learning frameworks and systems that are used to deploy those frameworks. …
The rumors have been running around for years, and they turned out to be true. …
If you want real competition among vendors who supply stuff to you, then sometimes you have to make it happen by yourself. …
Cloud computing makes a lot of sense for a rapidly growing number of larger enterprises and other organizations, and for any number of reasons. …
The thing we hear time and time again from the hyperscalers is that technology is a differentiator, but supply chain can make or break them. …
Microsoft’s embrace of programmable chips knowns as FPGAs is well documented. …
What constitutes an operating system changes with the work a system performs and the architecture that defines how that work is done. …
If you want to study how datacenter design has changed over the past two decades, a good place to visit is Quincy, Washington. …
Call it a phase that companies will have to go through to get to the promised land of the public cloud. …
Hyperscalers and the academics that often do work with them have invented a slew of distributed computing methods and frameworks to get around the problem of scaling up shared memory systems based on symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) or non-uniform memory access (NUMA) techniques that have been in the systems market for decades. …
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