Many of the technologists at AMD who are driving the Epyc CPU and Instinct GPU roadmaps as well as the $35 billion acquisition of FPGA maker Xilinx have | Continue reading
For more than three decades, researchers have used a particular simulation method for molecular dynamics called Ab initio molecular dynamics, or AIMD, | Continue reading
We’ve been closely following momentum with Fujitsu’s Arm-based A64FX processor, from its inception to its placement inside the world’s most powerful | Continue reading
If this is the middle of November, even during a global pandemic, this must be the SC20 supercomputing conference and there either must be a speed bump | Continue reading
There may not be a lot of new systems on the November 2020 edition of the Top500 rankings of supercomputers, but there has been a bunch of upgrades and | Continue reading
It is hard enough to chase one competitor. Imagine how hard it is to chase two different ones in different but complementary markets while at the same | Continue reading
Researchers at South Korea’s Electronics and Telecommunications Institute (ETRI), in conjunction with Arm, are one step closer to designing and deploying | Continue reading
The HPC world, particularly in the U.S. is waiting for the next series of transitions to far larger machines with exascale capabilities. By this time next | Continue reading
We have written much over the last four or five years about the role FPGAs might play in the ever-expanding deep learning space, both in training and | Continue reading
If you think HPC architectures have changed rapidly in recent years, brace yourself for the future when things will be moving at light speed. As | Continue reading
Not every HPC or analytics workload – meaning an algorithmic solver and the data that it chews on – first nicely in a 128 GB or 256 GB or even a 512 GB | Continue reading
Is the inclusion of specialized matrix engines in general-purpose processors truly motivated and merited, or is the silicon better invested in other | Continue reading
The rumors were right, and AMD president and chief executive officer Lisa Su is indeed printing out a tower of stock to acquire FPGA maker Xilinx for what | Continue reading
As an engineering director leading research projects into the application of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) to computational software for | Continue reading
Standing out in the crowded server inference space is getting more difficult, especially at this late stage of the startup game. Not that this is anything | Continue reading
The frameworks are in place, the hardware infrastructure is robust, but what has been keeping machine learning performance at bay has far less to do with | Continue reading
Somewhere nearly a decade ago, we made a joke when looking at the rise of the hyperscalers and cloud builders. Here is the joke: “We used to worry about | Continue reading
The long-held skepticism around wafer-scale architectures is deep and goes back decades. Few have tried and all have failed, either for business or | Continue reading
Success in any endeavor is not just about having the right idea, but having that idea at the right time and then executing well against that plan. It is | Continue reading
We have argued, even a decade and a half before The Next Platform was founded, that no one would ever move all of their IT infrastructure to a utility, | Continue reading
The Department of Energy today announced a partnership between Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and | Continue reading
What is the hardest job at Intel, excepting whoever is in charge of the development of chip etching processes and the foundries that implement it? We | Continue reading
For those who have followed supercomputing over several years, the Bull systems brand is familiar, especially in Europe. The company was acquired by Atos | Continue reading
Security is one of those necessary things that should not be an afterthought, but often is, and ideally is so invisible that it doesn’t get in the way of | Continue reading
“Times were simpler not so long ago” is an understatement these days, but when it comes to supercomputing, this has yet another meaning. The early days of | Continue reading
Today, the Gerstner era of International Business Machines is over, and the Krishna era is truly beginning, as Big Blue is spinning out the system | Continue reading
While a lot of ideas are ancient, some are relatively new and can come from only a modern context. Platform is one such concept, and given what we care | Continue reading
If you are fairly new to the IT racket, you might be under the impression that the waves of integration and disaggregation in compute, networking, and | Continue reading
When it comes to novel computing architectures, whether in quantum, deep learning, or neuromorphic, it can be tricky to get a handle on how incremental | Continue reading
D-Wave today announced another milestone in its quest to keep adding qubits, jumping from the previous generation 2000 qubit device to one with 5000. This | Continue reading
If you wanted to wrest control of datacenter compute as embodied mainly in the Xeon SP processor away from Intel, there are a number of approaches that | Continue reading
Few of the AI hardware startups that have made it through the first round of reality (roughly 2016 until the present) have managed to navigate the choppy | Continue reading
For those who have followed the evolution of supercomputing over the years, the Earth Simulator series of systems has represented the state of the art in | Continue reading
Companies with high stock valuations are a bit like the central banks of major countries. The cash they throw off as leaders in their markets gives them | Continue reading
Companies with high stock valuations are a bit like the central banks of major countries. The cash they throw off as leaders in their markets gives them | Continue reading
It must have been something in the cosmic ether. Apopros of nothing except the need to fill a blank page with something interesting back when we were | Continue reading
For about a decade, Intel has sold GPUs, in recent years with its integrated CPU-GPU devices used in client and entry servers. But for the most part, at | Continue reading
Last week we brought you The Next Database Platform live event and now we are providing most sessions from the full recording below. Use the timestamps at | Continue reading
It was just over a year ago that the RISC-V Foundation, the group shepherding the chip architecture in what over the past decade has become an active and | Continue reading
Say what you will, but among the many vendors that have tried to break into the datacenter with Arm server chips, Marvell, by virtue of the hard work done | Continue reading
Raja Koduri has been in the thick of the past two eras of computing, which were marked by – among other things – the ability to architect systems and | Continue reading
For the past several years here at The Next Platform, as we have been pondering what IBM might do with the future Power10 processor, we have been feinting | Continue reading
It has been a long time since Intel changed its manufacturing process – what it used to call a “tick” – and the microarchitecture and architecture of a | Continue reading
As we all know well, the various elements computer architecture swing on their own pendulums, with consolidated being at the center and distributed being | Continue reading
Multiplying things by two and putting them on a roadmap is easy, even if it does take a lot of courage to do that. Actually making that 2X performance | Continue reading
The hardest job at any chip designer that doesn’t actually own its own foundry – and maybe even those that do – is figuring out what wafer start | Continue reading
A lot of the people who are working at the many AI chip startups have a long history in processor development in the datacenter, and that is certainly | Continue reading
There isn’t really a systems business so much as a collection of them, all unique and all facing their own particular challenges. Among all of the current | Continue reading