Much has changed at online retail giant, Etsy, since 2015 when we talked to the company’s senior VP of technical operations about their adherence to their on-prem datacenters and database-driven approach to handling exponential growth. Continuous scaling of their user base, ever-growing data collection efforts to better cater to their …
Managing MySQL databases in the cloud is no easy chore, according to Steve Zivanic, vice president of database and autonomous services at Oracle. Using Amazon Web Services as an example, Zivanic said that typically, if a company needs a database for transactional data, it will use AWS Aurora. For analytics, …
Commissioned In just about any situation where you are making capital investments in equipment, you are worried about three things: performance, price/performance, and total cost of ownership. Without some sort of benchmark on which to gauge performance and without some sense of relative pricing, it is impossible to calculate total …
In this era of hyperscaler and cloud builder titans, their seven of whom account for about half of the IT infrastructure bought in the world, it is important to remember the importance of niches and the vital role that other makers of systems, other sellers of systems, and other renters …
As everybody in the world now knows, there are downsides to just-in-time manufacturing during a global pandemic. Demand can spike dramatically or fall off a cliff, depending on the nature of the product, and if you are lucky enough to see a spike in business, manufacturing to meet that demand …
Scientists have unlocked many atomic secrets through physics research that studies particle interactions such as quarks, gluons, protons, and neutrons within the nucleus of an atom. However, little is known about a mysterious form of matter that has been named dark matter. This is one of the research challenges being …
Cash used to be king, and now market capitalization is. That’s one of the reasons that the biggest players in the semiconductor arena are snapping up competitors, startups, and suppliers in adjacent chip markets at an increasing pace and with very large bags of “money.” Stock isn’t quite bitcoin, which …
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The automotive industry has shown keen and early in quantum computing over the last several years, beginning most notably with Volkswagen, which rolled out a traffic simulation system with its hardware partner, D-Wave. That was in 2017 and while there have been a few other stories focused on quantum’s role …
As Google’s batch sizes for AI training continue to skyrocket, with some batch sizes ranging from over 100k to one million, the company’s research arm is looking at ways to improve everything from efficiency, scalability, and even privacy for those whose data is used in large-scale training runs. This week …
Exascale-class energy efficiency cannot be defined by a simple number. Although Green500 energy efficiency HPC rankings provide a one-shot view into performance/efficiency, the complex interplay between large system operating systems, real-world applications, and the various tuning capabilities is worth digging into. The problem is, there is not necessarily a transparent …
Machine learning inference models have been running on X86 server processors from the very beginning of the latest – and by far the most successful – AI revolution, and the techies that know both hardware and software down to the minutest detail at the hyperscalers, cloud builders, and semiconductor manufacturers …
Software – and the data it produces – is the engine that is driving IT these days. Hardware, either in traditional datacenters or in the cloud, no longer is front and center in the mind of IT professionals. Instead those servers and storage appliances are the tools that enable them …
What bit of technology got us through the pandemic, was available for scaling up at just the right time to keep a pretty sizeable chunk of our economy working, redefined education on a moment’s notice, and now is redefining for the world the entire notion of work? Without our even …
We read a lot of market data here at The Next Platform, and we do our share of prognosticating and do even more riffing off the prognostications of others. The future is tough to predict, and the only way to know for sure what will happen is to live it. …
The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE), the agency with the most sway in how the largest supercomputers are designed and built, has been looking beyond CMOS since well before exascale systems were on the horizon. The agency is placing multiple bets that quantum computing will play an important role in …
SPONSORED Sometimes, bad things turn into excellent opportunities that can utterly transform markets. Many years hence, when someone writes the history of the datacenter compute business, they will judge AMD tapping Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp to etch the cores in its second and third generation Epyc server processors to be …
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