On today's program we talk with Nvidia co-founder, Chris Malachowsky alongside University of Florida Provost and VP, Joe Glover, about a sizable AI | Continue reading
Let’s leave aside all the questions about the long-term viability of AI ASICs and appliances and focus instead on the beauty of a good architecture. | Continue reading
Let’s leave aside all the questions about the long-term viability of AI ASICs and appliances and focus instead on the beauty of a good architecture. | Continue reading
The term “general purpose” in regards to compute is an evolving one. What looked like general purpose in the past looks like a limited ASIC by today’s | Continue reading
If the hyperscalers are a crystal ball in which we see the far-off future of compute, storage, and networking writ large and ahead of the mainstream, then | Continue reading
There are two Amperes in datacenter compute right now, and they are both gunning for Xeons. One is the “Ampere” A100 GPU accelerator from Nvidia, and the | Continue reading
Java turned 25 years old in May, marking a quarter of a century in which it has consistently been one of the most widely used programming languages. The | Continue reading
Even before the coronavirus pandemic hit, Intel, the dominant maker of processors for servers on the planet, was rejiggering its product roadmaps behind | Continue reading
Sometimes, to get the proper perspective, you have to take the long view. And other times, you need the extremely long view. It is with this in mind that | Continue reading
If you want to build a successful hardware ecosystem around a chip architecture that has recently been open sourced, as the Power chip instruction set was | Continue reading
When you have 54.2 billion transistors to play with, you can pack a lot of different functionality into a computing device, and this is precisely what | Continue reading
As the name of this publication suggests, we are system thinkers and we like to watch the evolution of a collection of tools into a platform. That’s the | Continue reading
One reason we’re watching Lawrence Livermore National Lab closely is because they are at the forefront when it comes to blending emerging HPC, deep | Continue reading
The hyperscalers and cloud builders have been setting the pace for innovation in the server arena for the past decade or so, particularly and publicly | Continue reading
A new CPU or GPU compute engine is always an exciting time for the datacenter because we get to see the results of years of work and clever thinking by | Continue reading
The GPU Technical Conference may have been canceled in March thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, but behind the scenes Nvidia kept on pace with the | Continue reading
There are many things that are ironic in the IT business. Too many to count, some days. And maybe it is just because many of us are attending the virtual | Continue reading
It seems much longer than just a couple of months ago when the spreading coronavirus outbreak began make its presence felt in the tech industry. Like in | Continue reading
There is a relentless hunger for bandwidth in the largest datacenters of the world as well as a desire to flatten networks and thereby reduce latencies | Continue reading
When Hewlett Packard Enterprise finally closed on its $1.3 billion acquisition of supercomputer maker Cray in September, it was just over a month after | Continue reading
We have said more than once in recent weeks that recessions accelerate technology transitions but they do not cause them. We now have a textbook | Continue reading
The deal for Nvidia to acquire Mellanox, which was announced last March for $6.9 billion, has finally passed muster with all of the regulatory bodies of | Continue reading
The first half of last year was relatively weak for Intel’s Data Center Group last year, but despite the coronavirus pandemic – and in some cases, we | Continue reading
In the coming weeks and months, particularly as we are entering the financial reporting season for the first quarter of 2020, we are naturally going to be | Continue reading
If we are ever going to know what affect the coronavirus pandemic has had on the IT sector, we have to keep track of what was going on before the outbreak | Continue reading
A collaboration of researchers from the University of California Davis, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, and Intel are working | Continue reading
Since late February and early March, when the coronavirus outbreak began to spill out of China in earnest and spread its sickness and death across Europe, | Continue reading
Over the last few years the idea of “conditional computation” has been key to making neural network processing more efficient, even though much of the | Continue reading
To one way of looking at it, a reprise of the Bus Wars from days gone by in the late 1980s and early 1990s would have been a lot of fun. The fighting | Continue reading
For the past five years or so, there has been a lot of talk about accelerated computing being the new normal and about the era of the general purpose | Continue reading
Whether or not the coronavirus pandemic causes the Great Recession II or the Great Depression II, we are without a doubt entering an era when IT industry | Continue reading
Server component and system maker Supermicro is known for being out in front when any X86 processor comes to market and often shoots the gap between ODMs, | Continue reading
Arm server chip upstart Ampere Computing made a big splash with its 80-core “Quicksilver” Altra processor two weeks ago, and Marvell, which is the volume | Continue reading
Excepting some potholes here and there and a few times when the hyperscalers and cloud builders tapped the brakes, it has been one hell of a run in the | Continue reading
The American landscape is littered with dead malls – once-thriving shopping centers now abandoned, filled with rubble, with empty department stores and | Continue reading
Companies invest in platforms over a decade or more, and that is why architectures persist longer than we might think given technological differences and | Continue reading
There is an equally virtuous and vicious cycle that propels all computing: Innovation requires competition to propel it, and competition requires | Continue reading
Whatever is going on with its competitive positioning against revitalized X86 server chip rival AMD, Intel clearly felt that it could not wait for the | Continue reading
We are just 18 days away from The Next AI Platform event on March 10, 2020 at The Glasshouse in San Jose. Remember, this sold out last year. If you | Continue reading
If it wasn’t bad enough that Moore’s Law improvements in the density and cost of transistors is slowing. At the same time, the cost of designing chips and | Continue reading
With the ramping of volumes, the maturing of the manufacturing process, and the widening number of use cases in the field, there is always an opportunity | Continue reading
If you want inspiration for a hyperscale, resilient distributed block storage service, apparently a jellyfish is a good place to start looking for | Continue reading
No platform can be everything to everybody. And while there are plenty of organizations that operate at scale who create their own platforms, often using | Continue reading
It is not inconceivable, but probably also not very likely, that the datacenter business at GPU juggernaut Nvidia could at some point in the next one, | Continue reading
Quantum computers will continue to fit in the “emerging technologies” category for some time, at least in terms of their ability to handle a large enough | Continue reading
The server processor market has gotten a lot more crowded in the past several years, which is great for customers and which has made it both better and | Continue reading
There are many things that the hyperscalers and cloud builders have taught enterprise IT to respect more than perhaps it had in years gone by. And this is | Continue reading
It is funny to think of the modern datacenter as an appliance, like an iPhone, but in the cases of the hyperscalers and the very largest public cloud | Continue reading