Sponsored Post: Analyst firm Gartner believes AI will remain one of the top workloads driving infrastructure decisions through to 2023 as more organizations push pilot projects into the production stage. But the company also notes that those initiatives require specific infrastructure resources that can grow and evolve alongside AI technology …
If there is one thing that is consistently true about HPC clusters for the past thirty years and for AI training systems for the past decade, it is as workloads grow, the network becomes increasingly important – and perhaps as important as packing as much flops in a node as …
Big Blue was one of the system designers that caught the accelerator bug early and declared rather emphatically that, over the long haul, all kinds of high performance computing would have some sort of acceleration. Meaning, some kind of specialized ASIC to which a CPU would offload its math homework. …
Selling hardware into the modern datacenter is no easy feat, particularly when the needs of hyperscalers and enterprises have long since diverged. Hyperscalers and traditional enterprises some overlapping demands, but lean more heavily on some aspects of a system than others compared to enterprises. Enterprises want a certain amount of …
The top hyperscalers and clouds are rich enough to build out infrastructure on a global scale and create just about any kind of platform they feel like. They are just that rich, and by using their services at massive scale, all of us collectively pay for the many degrees of …
As you might expect, we believe in the strength, resilience, and utility of platforms and we carefully watch as companies emerge and try to commercialize them. And like many industry observers, we have taken a keen interest in the hyperconverged server-storage hybrid that was conceived of by the founders of …
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co is the world’s largest and most advanced producer of semiconductors, and is therefore a “bellwether” for the semiconductor industry and, in turn therefore, a leading indicator of the entire IT sector that depends so heavily on semiconductors as its key driver. A bellwether is supposed to …
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Commissioned: Not everybody wants to be Iron Man. But there isn’t an artist or engineer around that doesn’t envy the 3D, immersive design experience that Tony Stark used to invent new equipment and analyze his existing gadgets in the Avenger movies. We have been imagining an immersive experience combining the …
It is perplexing to us that the world’s largest distributor of client and server operating systems and also the creator of the Linux-based, open source SONiC network operating system – that would be Microsoft with its Windows and Windows Server franchises – did not see the benefit or the need …
The datacenter is becoming hyperdistributed and incorporating some multiple of capacity – 2X, 3X, 4X, or maybe 10X – outside of the traditional datacenter walls because applications and storage live increasingly at the edge. The edge is not just a new frontier for customers, who are being drawn out of …
It seems like we have been talking about Google’s TPUv4 machine learning accelerators for a long time, and that is because we have been. And today, at the Google Cloud Next 2022 conference, the search engine, advertising, video streaming, enterprise application, and cloud computing giant will finally make its fourth …
Being in the cloud business is difficult and expensive – even for a rich company like Google. The cloud business is at a $25 billion run rate, and generated $6.3 billion in the most recent quarter, a 36 percent year-over-year jump driven in part by Google Cloud and demand for …
Whenever a process shrink is available to chip designers, there are several different levers they can pull to make a more powerful compute engine. With the latest “Aurora” Vector Engine accelerators from NEC, long-time supercomputer maker NEC is pulling on a bunch of levers at the same time – and …
Two and a half years into the global coronavirus pandemic we all have upgraded our home IT infrastructure. And after several fibrillatory interest rate shocks by the major governments to try to curb inflation in the world economy, spending on PCs has consequently taken a nose dive. And a glut …
Predicting the future is hard, even with supercomputers. And maybe specifically when you are talking about predicting the future of supercomputers. As we noted many years ago, the fact that AI training workloads using convolution neural networks came along with enough data to actually start working at the same time …
If the semiconductor business teaches us anything, it is that volumes matter more than architecture. A great design doesn’t mean all that much if the intellectual property in that design can’t be spread across a wide number of customers addressing an even wider array of workloads. How many interesting and …
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