After a long wait, now we know. All three of the initial exascale-class supercomputer systems being funded by the US Department of Energy through its | Continue reading
AMD had been down this road before. In 2003, the chip maker launched the “SledgeHammer” Opteron, the first 64-bit X86 server processor with backward | Continue reading
Nvidia has unveiled GPUDirect Storage, a new capability that enables its GPUs to talk directly with NVM-Express storage. The technology uses GPUDirect’s | Continue reading
As the lead engineer on the Power10 processor, Bill Starke already knows what most of us have to guess about Big Blue’s next iteration in a processor | Continue reading
The IT industry is all about evolution, building on what’s been done in the past to address the demands of the future. In recent years, that evolution has | Continue reading
The growing imbalance between computational performance and data access performance has spurred the development of a number of new random access memory | Continue reading
The handwriting has been on the wall for some time now, but Intel has quietly dropped its 200 Gb/sec Omni-Path networking from its roadmaps and will be | Continue reading
The good news about having a diverse product line, as chip maker AMD increasingly does, is that the company operates like a multi-cylinder engine and that | Continue reading
Enterprises are putting a lot of time, money, and resources behind their nascent artificial intelligence efforts, banking on the fact that they can | Continue reading
Nvidia’s DGX platforms are powerhouses for training neural networks, offering up to 2 petaflops of peak machine learning performance. But the GPU-laden | Continue reading
There has never been a better time to wait to buy processors for servers, and in the second quarter of this year, based on the financial results that | Continue reading
In the HPC cloud business, Oracle is a relative newcomer. As we reported in November 2018, the company jumped into the fray less than a year ago with HPC | Continue reading
It is hard to say what will happen first: Switching and routing will merge, or an independent networking operating system that can do both will emerge. If | Continue reading
Perhaps, many years hence, we will call the company that, more than any other, created the enterprise computing environment Big Purple now that it has | Continue reading
For The McLaren Group, it’s all about speed. Born in 1963 as a Formula 1 race car company, it initially was about speed on the track. However, over the | Continue reading
Intel has moved a step closer to commercial neuromorphic computing with the development of a 64-chip system that provides eight million artificial | Continue reading
Training deep neural networks is one of the more computationally intensive applications running in datacenters today. Arguably, training these models is | Continue reading
Without the right kind and the right amount of I/O between the components of a system, all of the impressive feeds and speeds of the individual components | Continue reading
While accelerators have been around for some time to boost the performance of simulation and modeling applications, accelerated computing didn’t gain | Continue reading
In 1985, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) established IEEE 754, a standard for floating point formats and arithmetic that | Continue reading
The alliance between high performance computing and artificial intelligence is proving to be a fruitful one for researchers looking to accelerate | Continue reading
One bit of news that almost got lost in the shuffle at the recent ISC 2019 conference was Intel’s announcement that it is bringing DAOS, the Distributed | Continue reading
It is very rare indeed to get benchmark data on HPC applications that shows it scaling over a representative number of nodes, and it is never possible to | Continue reading
If there is anything we are learning about the emerging chip ecosystem for AI inference, it is that it is vast, rapidly evolving, and incredibly diverse. | Continue reading
Hyperscalers change their datacenters – by which we mean whole generations of servers, storage, and switching – like regular enterprises upgrade server | Continue reading
Over the last couple of years, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has added to its already broad portfolio of storage, which includes 3PAR arrays, which HPE | Continue reading
When Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) installs its 1.5-exaflops Frontier supercomputer in a couple of years, it’s likely to be the most powerful system in | Continue reading
For enterprises that want to take their compute, storage and networking, create fluid pools of datacenter resources and then use software to deploy and | Continue reading
The public cloud has given enterprises a taste of infrastructure that is highly agile and scalable, that is deployed and managed by someone else and that | Continue reading
Throughout the many different types of system architecture in the past six decades, one thing has always remained true: Hardware always gets ahead of | Continue reading
GPU chip maker Nvidia doesn’t just make the devices that end up in some of the largest supercomputers in the world. It is, as a designer of chips, | Continue reading
When the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers comes out twice a year, the top-ranked machines receive the lion’s share of attention. | Continue reading
Given our focus on the systems-level of AI machine building, storage was a big topic of discussion at the sold-out Next AI Platform event we hosted in | Continue reading
Creating the Tesla GPU compute platform has taken Nvidia the better part of a decade and a half, and it has culminated in a software stack comprised of | Continue reading
Habana Labs has unveiled the Gaudi HL-2000, a custom-built AI processor that the company claims can outrun Nvidia’s best and brightest GPUs at training | Continue reading
If you want to rank in the world of supercomputing – as national and state governments as well as academic and research institutions most certainly do to | Continue reading
AMD’s second-generation Epyc processor, code-named “Rome,” has yet to be released into the wild, but it is already racking up some impressive wins in | Continue reading
There are two trends converging in AI inference and so far, only a small number of companies are enmeshed. The first trend takes us back to the future | Continue reading
In one fell swoop, Intel has finally filled a giant hole in its switching product line by acquiring upstart Barefoot Networks, the creator of the P4 | Continue reading
At the recent EuroHPC Summit in Poland, the nature of Europe’s first homegrown HPC processor was described in some detail. The design incorporates Arm, | Continue reading
If you want to see what the future of the Kubernetes container management system will look like, then the closed source, homegrown Tupperware container | Continue reading
There is little question that storage and I/O are hot topics once again with the arrival of a host of new technologies that displaced the tried and true | Continue reading
You know the world is a different place when shipping 2.58 million servers in a quarter feels like a slowdown, a disappointment, and perhaps a leading | Continue reading
More and more of the networking that is done in the datacenter is performed on software-defined networking whiteboxes rather than on proprietary black box | Continue reading
The big players in the Hadoop data analytics market continue to hit headwinds in a rapidly evolving market that now includes competition from Amazon Web | Continue reading
We have to admit that it is often a lot more fun watching an upstart carve out whole new slices of business, or create them out of what appears to be thin | Continue reading
At The Next AI Platform event in May, we brought together a few leading investors on the deep learning chip front to talk about how they consider | Continue reading
It was a long time coming but AMD is finding its footing again in the high performance computing space. At the Computex tradeshow this week in Taipei, CEO | Continue reading