Composable infrastructure company Liqid was one of the first entrants in that market segment, and the company has steadily built up its composable capabilities since its founding eight years ago. In this interview with Sumit Puri, Liqid CEO and co-founder, he says it’s all about “moving away from what we call ‘statically configured infrastructure’ to […]
HPE Greenlake: A Private HPC Cloud that Seems Public
November 15, 2021 by
Cloud HPC is one of the hottest segments of the HPC industry – yet it has a variety of iterations from various vendors. One of them, from the HPC industry’s leader for systems revenues, is in effect a private cloud offering that operates and is designed to deliver many of the benefits of a public […]
How AMD Helps Push Azure’s HPC Strategy
November 15, 2021 by
Microsoft Azure early on took an aggressive stance in the cloud HPC segment, becoming, for example, one of the first to offer the InfiniBand interconnect on its public cloud platform. The strategy has paid off as cloud has become one of the fastest growing segments in the HPC industry. In this interview, Evan Burness, Azure’s […]
NVIDIA and NetApp: What’s Coming Next from Their AI Partnership
November 15, 2021 by
Managers from two AI powerhouses, NVIDIA and NetApp, sat down with us to talk about their several years-long partnership, along with its latest developments, which are considerable. >From NetApp, Joey Parnell, Senior member of Technical Staff, software; and from NVIDIA, Premal Savla, Director of Product Management, Deep Learning Systems, discuss a slew advancements across AI-related […]
AMD’s Evan Groenke on the New MI200 GPU
November 15, 2021 by
In this interview with AMD’s Senior Product Manager, Datacenter and Embedded Solutions Group, Evan Groenke, he discusses the buzz around the company’s newly announced MI200 data center GPU, which AMD says is the most powerful on the market. Along with its speeds-and-feeds, Groenke discusses how AMD engineered the new accelerator and looks at the HPC […]
Inspur: Growing Strength in HPC and AI
November 15, 2021 by
It’s been a good year for Inspur, as the company’s Global AI and HPC Director, Vangel Bojaxhi, explains in this SC21 interview. He shares updated market research numbers showing Inspur’s strong position in the global HPC and AI computing arenas, and he talks about the performance characteristics of its NF5488A6 server, showcased at the conference, […]
Cornelis Networks Talks High Speed Fabrics for Heterogeneous HPC-AI
November 15, 2021 by
We caught up with Phil Murphy, CEO of fabrics technology company Cornelis Networks, which has one of the most interesting vendor histories in the HPC community. Extending back to the 1990s and carrying forward extensive interconnect R&D by both Intel and Cray, Cornelis’s OmniPath is a fabric uniquely well-suited to the increasingly heterogeneous world of […]
Will We See You at Microsoft Ignite?
October 28, 2021 by
[Sponsored Content] Every year, IT professionals and technology enthusiasts from around the world come together at Microsoft Ignite to learn new skills, network, and get the latest announcements for the Microsoft ecosystem. Join AMD November 2-4, 2021 as we gather with the greater tech community and share our data center solutions and vision for cloud […]
At Virtual ISC: Ayar Labs and Optical I/O – Data at the Speed of Light
June 30, 2021 by
At Virtual ISC we chatted with Ayar Lab’s Hugo Saleh, VP of business development and marketing, about what he calls the coming revolution in HPC (and other compute- and data-intensive market segments) brought on by optical I/O. This technology replaces traditional electrical-based I/O, delivering 1000x improvement in interconnect bandwidth density at 10x lower power consumption, […]
At Virtual ISC: Atos Talks Its New ‘ThinkAI’ Offering
June 29, 2021 by
At virtual ISC, we interviewed Atos’ Eric Eppe, head of Solution Marketing, HPC, AI & Quantum Solution Marketing & Portfolio; and Cédric Bourrasset, AI Distinguished Expert, HPC & AI Sales Operation, to discuss Atos progress in the HPC and AI markets. In particular, we focused on Atos launch at ISC of its new ThinkAI offering […]
