There is a battle heating up in the datacenter, and there are tens of billions of dollars at stake as chip makers chase the burgeoning market for engines | Continue reading
There are a lot of different kinds of machine learning, and some of them are not based exclusively on deep neural networks that learn from tagged text, | Continue reading
Advances in visualization are essential for managing—and maximizing value from—the rising flood of data, the growing sophistication of simulation codes, | Continue reading
Now that deep learning at traditional supercomputing centers is becoming a more pervasive combination, the infrastructure challenges of making both AI and | Continue reading
It is safe to say that a little more than a decade ago, when the clone of Google’s MapReduce and Google File System distributed storage and computing | Continue reading
Editors Note: We are arranging interviews with leads on both the hardware and software side of this story and will update it with more information | Continue reading
As we argued a few weeks ago, the cloud is where quantum competition gets real. With all of the major quantum players (and it is a slim set of contenders) | Continue reading
Many programs have a tough time spanning across high levels of concurrency, but if they are cleverly coded, databases can make great use of massively | Continue reading
Technologies often start out in one place and then find themselves in another. The architecture of the GPU was initially driven by the need for 3D | Continue reading
European supercomputing centers are known for deploying innovative architectures and working on cutting-edge applications, but the sheer number of these | Continue reading
It is certainly true that no technology company can grow if they are not able to do business in China. But it is equally true that no technology company | Continue reading
A few years ago the market was rife with deep learning chip startups aiming at AI training. This, however, is the year of the inference ASIC. But with | Continue reading
We did not plan it, but today has become make-your-eyes-bleed-with-chip architecture-patent-applications day. On that note, here is the TPU3 patent in its | Continue reading
While deep learning models might not be able to simulate large-scale physical phenomena in the same way purpose-built supercomputers and their application | Continue reading
The fleet of servers in the enterprise datacenters of the world – distinct from hyperscalers, cloud builders, and HPC centers – are getting a bit long in | Continue reading
As one of the first hyperscalers in the world, Yahoo, part of the Oath conglomerate that also includes AOL and that is owned by telecom giant Verizon, | Continue reading
It is hard to say for sure, but a very substantial part of the hard work in buying supercomputers and creating simulations and models that tell us about | Continue reading
Intel is gearing up the FPGA user base it inherited from Altera for the release of Stratix 10 hardware and companion application acceleration stack. For | Continue reading
The refrigerators are on order and the lists of scientific applications are formed for another new quantum architecture to enter the quantum hardware | Continue reading
For any public cloud to succeed, it has to offer best of breed technologies reasonably close to the cutting edge and supporting the wide variety of | Continue reading
The refrigerators are on order and the lists of scientific applications are formed for another new quantum architecture to enter the quantum hardware | Continue reading
It is no wonder that the quantum computing investments in the United States, China, and elsewhere are ramping. Now that the technology is moving from | Continue reading
If it isn’t obvious, we like hardware here at The Next Platform. And two new, dense, GPU accelerated machines from Supermicro – one aimed at machine learning training and the other at inference – g… | Continue reading
If it isn’t obvious, we like hardware here at The Next Platform. And two new, dense, GPU accelerated machines from Supermicro – one aimed at machine | Continue reading
It is no wonder that the quantum computing investments in the U.S., China, and elsewhere are ramping. Now that the technology is moving from research to | Continue reading
Perhaps the most important decision that any company will ever make is how they intend to structure and store the information they will preserve to | Continue reading
On the hardware side, the next frontier for deep learning innovation will be in getting the performance, efficiency, and accuracy needed for inference at | Continue reading
If there is one rule of computing, is that it gets increasingly more expensive and more difficult to scale up performance within a single device or a | Continue reading
The revelations by Google’s Project Zero team earlier this year of the Spectre and Meltdown speculative execution vulnerabilities in most of processors | Continue reading
Fujitsu has given us a peek at the future A64FX Arm server processor that it has forged for the future “Post-K” supercomputer that is being built by the | Continue reading
Gentlemen (and women), start your inference engines. One of the world’s largest buyers of systems is entering evaluation mode for deep learning | Continue reading
At the dawn of the mainframe era, Thomas Watson is said to have remarked that perhaps only five such systems would ever be sold in the world and that | Continue reading
When it comes to machine learning, a lot of the attention in the past six years has focused on the training of neural networks and how the GPU accelerator | Continue reading
Over the last several years we have seen many new hardware architectures emerge for deep learning training but this year, inference will have its turn in | Continue reading
It doesn’t take a machine learning algorithm to predict that server makers are trying to cash in on the machine learning revolution at the major nexus | Continue reading
It has been nearly five years since Michael Dell lined up $24 billion in cash to take the IT company that bears his name private, and it has been nearly | Continue reading
As France, Japan, China, and the United States vie to build the world’s first exascale computer, application and technology developers and researchers in | Continue reading
If operating systems or server firmware had better isolation and workload scheduling software, the last decade of server virtualization in the datacenter | Continue reading
FPGAs might not have carved out a niche in the deep learning training space the way some might have expected but the low power, high frequency needs of AI | Continue reading
There has been a great deal of interest in deep learning chip startup, Graphcore, since we first got the limited technical details of the company’s | Continue reading
With Moore’s Law running out of steam, the chip design wizards at Intel are going off the board to tackle the exascale challenge, and have dreamed up a new architecture that could in one fell swoop… | Continue reading
With Moore’s Law running out of steam, the chip design wizards at Intel are going off the board to tackle the exascale challenge, and have dreamed up a | Continue reading
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) will soon be home to a top-tier supercomputer with the 2019 arrival of the “Frontera” system. As we detailed | Continue reading
Sometimes, if you stick around long enough in business, the market will come to you. For decades, Xilinx was the leader in field programmable gate arrays | Continue reading
The lines between the CPU, its main memory, the memory of accelerators, and various external storage class memories have been blurring for years, and the | Continue reading
Making money from sand is not as easy as making money from oil, and the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, which has been assembling the GlobalFoundries chip making | Continue reading
The last decade, and few years in particular, have brought a bevy of new architectures to bear for a market keen to understand what comes after Moore’s | Continue reading
The relationship between quantum computers and supercomputing will be more complementary than competitive in the coming years with quantum processors | Continue reading