Another Hot Chips conference has ended with yet another deep learning architecture to consider. This one is actually quite a bit different in that it | Continue reading
The processing world would be a whole lot less diverse and interesting if it were not for a healthy amount of nationalism. Japan has been an innovator in | Continue reading
The increasingly distributed nature of computing and the rapid growth in the number of the small connected devices that make up the Internet of Things | Continue reading
The changes to the Xeon server chip architecture and the consequent server platforms are going to be a bit thin here in 2018 after a pretty big jump with | Continue reading
There have been several chip startups over the last few years that have sought to new ways to train and execute neural networks efficiently, but why | Continue reading
The use of FPGAs in HPC is limited less by the capabilities of current hardware and more by the challenges in programming them without sacrificing | Continue reading
Computing is hard enough, but the sophistication and proliferation of attacks on IT infrastructure, from the firewall moat surrounding the corporate | Continue reading
Moore’s Law is effectively boosting compute capability by a factor of ten over a five year span, as Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen | Continue reading
In 2021, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) is planning to deploy Aurora A21, a new Intel-Cray system, slated to be the first exascale | Continue reading
Five years ago, Hewlett Packard Enterprise let loose the Peregrine supercomputer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, a marriage of performance | Continue reading
Newisys has been on the NVM-Express for several years, putting the high-profile interface in a growing number of server and storage platforms, including | Continue reading
A research team from Nvidia has provided interesting insight about using mixed precision on deep learning training across very large training sets and how | Continue reading
In the wonderful world of software containers, it can feel like the ground is constantly shifting beneath your feet as new projects spring up to address | Continue reading
The massive amounts of data being generated in enterprise datacenters and out there on the public clouds and the need to quickly access and analyze that | Continue reading
Sometimes, a workload needs more memory, more compute, or more I/O than is available in the two socket server that has been the standard pretty much since | Continue reading
Cloud giants Amazon, Alibaba, Baidu, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft are now designing their own AI accelerator chips. Is this a fad or a short-term phase | Continue reading
Intel continues to pull in massive amounts of money through its portfolio of datacenter wares and to dominate the market for processors in the glass | Continue reading
This year at the International Supercomputing Conference we detailed some of the major quantum computing development efforts, including updates from the | Continue reading
Compute drives supercomputing, and networking is the chassis and storage just comes along for the ride. Processor upgrade cycles are the boon and the bane | Continue reading
General purpose computing systems have been seen as the best way of delivering on enterprise data processing needs for decades. Creating a standard | Continue reading
There has been much written about the potential for FPGAs to take a leadership role in accelerating deep learning but in practice, the hurdles of getting | Continue reading
A working group formed on behalf of the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) in the U.S. has taken an in-depth look at how the message passing interface (MPI) | Continue reading
Big things can often fit into small packages, especially if those packages are tightly bound. The concept of a specialized chiplet is as about as old as | Continue reading
At the height of the Hadoop era there were countless storage and analytics startups based on the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), several of which | Continue reading
When it comes to building extreme scale computing platforms, there are plenty of system design options but in supercomputing, the only practical choice for an OS is Linux. A team from MIT and Sandi… | Continue reading
To a certain extent, the “Knights” family of parallel processors, sold under the brand name Xeon Phi, by Intel were exactly what they were supposed to be: | Continue reading
Researchers for centuries have relied on observational and theoretical astronomy for studying the stars, using telescopes and mathematical calculations to | Continue reading
Imagine, if you will, that your two biggest rivals were Intel and Nvidia, and that you had to fight a two front war to storm the datacenter. You would not | Continue reading
This morning at Google Next computer architecture pioneers, John Hennessey and David Patterson, remarked that even though it could be revolutionary, | Continue reading
If there is anything the hyperscalers have taught us, it is the value of homogeneity and scale in an enterprise. Because their infrastructure was largely | Continue reading
As the rubber begins to meet the road for quantum computing, the conversation is shifting from one about the practicality of hardware to how future users | Continue reading
As the underdog in cloud computing, Google has to take a slightly different tack from industry pioneer and juggernaut Amazon Web Services, which simply | Continue reading
Despite some of the inherent complexities of using FPGAs for implementing deep neural networks, there is a strong efficiency case for using reprogrammable | Continue reading
When it comes to building extreme scale computing platforms, there are plenty of system design options but in supercomputing, the only practical choice | Continue reading
Quantum systems will not replace traditional supercomputers anytime soon but for certain types of simulations, they will be far more efficient and | Continue reading
There are so many ironies in the hardware business that it is amazing that we aren’t covered in rust. One irony is that after decades of socket | Continue reading
This year at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) Dr. Keren Bergman from the Lightwave Research Lab at Columbia University detailed the road | Continue reading
Given the rollout of the “ZZ” and “Boston” variants of its Power9 systems, which are aimed at customers who are building clusters and at midrange | Continue reading
There is no way to predict which quantum system will garner system share in the next years, but most large chip, system, and software companies are | Continue reading
FPGA maker Xilinx has acquired Chinese deep learning chip startup DeePhi Tech for an undisclosed sum. The Next Platform has been watching DeePhi closely | Continue reading
It has been a year since Intel launched its “Skylake” Xeon SP processors, and even though the big cloud builders and hyperscalers had even earlier access | Continue reading
The sign of a mature technology is not just how pervasive it is, but in how invisible and easy to use it is. No one thinks about wall sockets any more – | Continue reading
Most companies in the HPC space have made the natural transition to moving into the deep learning and AI space over the last couple of years. As one might | Continue reading
Containers have been getting a lot of attention in the enterprise over the past several years, thanks to them being an enabling technology for greater | Continue reading
The line between Intel’s high end desktop, midrange workstation, and low end servers has always been a blurry one, and changing the naming conventions on | Continue reading
If you really want to know what is going on in the HPC market, you have to be careful about using the Top 500 rankings of “supercomputers” as a yardstick. | Continue reading
The relationship between the HPC and AI communities is not unlike sibling rivalry; both come from the same stock computationally speaking but are fundamentally different individuals. They pull from similar elements but to entirely separate ends and are not always sure which one i … | Continue reading
It is safe to say that VMware would have been perfectly happy if Docker containers had never been invented. A decade ago, during the Great Recession, the company’s server virtualization platform matured just enough to be useful for server consolidation on a tectonic scale, allowi … | Continue reading