Networks are critical as they interlink systems such as servers and storage hardware within high-performance computing systems. But as the demands of organizations from their HPC systems continue to expand, composable technology allows them to retool the entire architecture as required. “In the old days when you wanted to build a cluster and you wanted, say, ...

Open source has been a boon for the digital enterprise. For one, it birthed the Ansible Automation Platform for software provisioning, configuration management and application deployment — among other things. But as it evolves with the times, what other capabilities are being worked into the Ansible suite? And which technologies will spearhead them? “Lightspeed is ...

The steady trudge of artificial intelligence isn’t stopping anytime soon. From synthesizing human voice and speech to creating unique art, music, prose and poetry, generative AI is opening up new avenues for scholastic and artistic pursuits. But what about its use for businesses? With generative AI being a vast knowledge trove, organizations stand to open ...

Last year, the discourse about high-performance computing trends focused on the increasing importance of software, as opposed to hardware, in steering innovation there. Now, a new factor is at play. Since its recent explosion, artificial intelligence has begun to cut across several HPC operations within the enterprise. “I think there is an intersection between HPC and ...

Years after artificial intelligence tools like Siri and voice-controlled appliances, ChatGPT showed the world AI’s true breadth of capabilities. Generative AI and large language models aren’t showing any innovation slowdowns. Rather, they will only get more advanced as graphics processing units become more capable, according to Steen Graham (pictured, right), founder and chief executive officer of ...

Prior to the 2010s, most computing tasks were run through the now-outdated spinning disk storage format. Today, advances such as solid-state drives and the pervasive cloud are expanding the capabilities of high-performance computing to harness the power of artificial intelligence. “Now we are seeing the convergence of AI into HPC, and that brings a challenge ...

The world of enterprise technology moves notoriously fast. Despite the continuous innovation strides in high-performance computing as it exists today, momentum is occurring in parallel to bring forth its next evolution — quantum computing. Quantum computing, in simpler terms, will be another hardware accelerator purpose-built for certain classes of emerging workloads — at least in the ...

A lot has been made of the inordinate share of the global power supply being consumed by data centers and other high-performance computing resources. With sustainability being a major topic in the HPC space, it’s worth analyzing the steps being taken at the enterprise level to ensure that rapid innovation doesn’t create more harm than ...

As high-performance computing components, such as servers and graphical processing units, get more capable, they consume more power. Managing these increasingly power-hungry systems and maintaining sustainability requires a combo of efficient power-draw management and powerful cooling. These improvements are already being delivered in accumulating fractions by the likes of Dell Technologies Inc. and Intel Corp. ...

The scalability of the cloud has made it a catalyst for transformation in several advancing technologies, including high-performance computing. What trends are accelerating the merging of cloud and HPC — especially for research and enterprise use cases? “After the pandemic, the complexity of HPC became an important issue,” said Shervin Sammak (pictured, right), product manager at Dell ...