Compute
Navigating Through The Roiling Datacenter Waters
For a long time, datacenter compute has been the very picture of stability – Intel-based servers running enterprise workloads in central facilities. …
Azure
Cloud
Great Scott: Spanning Supercomputing And Clouds
System architects that live in the Seattle area who don’t want to uproot their lives and move to California or Texas or New York or maybe possibly Illinois or Oregon or even overseas to Japan or China have a fairly small number of job opportunities. …
Compute
Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part Three
We have been making the case in this three part series that vertical integration is becoming more popular in modern datacenters. …
Connect
Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part Two
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 builders, this is more or less what they are building. …
Cloud
Public Cloud Giants Fight For HPC Supremacy
Microsoft Azure has been able to put actual Cray XC series supercomputers and CS Storm clusters in the public cloud for more than two years now, and it is unclear how many companies have commissioned Cray, now part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, to do so. …
Cloud
Microsoft Brings IBM Power Iron To Azure Cloud
Under most circumstances, the major public cloud builders would like to use their own iron in their datacenters. …
AI
McLaren Builds Infrastructure And F1 Race Cars For Speed
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. …
Cloud
Counting The Cost Of Scaling HPC Applications
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 get cost allocations presented that allow for price/performance comparisons to be made for clusters of different physical sizes and the increase in throughput that more scale brings. …
Edge
Microsoft Stretches Azure Cloud To The Edge
The company best known for its Windows operating systems and related client and server software but also one of the big five cloud players on Earth is getting into the edge computing business with a set of Azure offerings designed to put compute resources a lot closer to the customer’s data. …
AI
Microsoft Focuses Azure More Tightly On HPC And AI
For any public cloud to succeed, it has to offer best of breed technologies reasonably close to the cutting edge and supporting the wide variety of compute that the enterprises of the world would otherwise acquire and run on premises. …