Hyperscale Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/category/hyperscale/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Fri, 16 Feb 2024 13:44:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.nextplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-PlatformStack-150x150.jpg Hyperscale Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/category/hyperscale/ 32 32 86113652 Why Hyperscale Networks Have Been Decades In The Making https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/01/10/why-hyperscale-networks-have-been-decades-in-the-making/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/01/10/why-hyperscale-networks-have-been-decades-in-the-making/#respond Wed, 10 Jan 2024 07:45:08 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143460 SPONSORED FEATURE: The next generation internet is all about experience. Hyperscalers like Google, Azure and Facebook epitomize the importance of both technological and customer experience. …

Why Hyperscale Networks Have Been Decades In The Making was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/01/10/why-hyperscale-networks-have-been-decades-in-the-making/feed/ 0 143460 Designing Chips With The Cloud And Edge In Mind https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/03/01/designing-chips-with-the-cloud-and-edge-in-mind/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/03/01/designing-chips-with-the-cloud-and-edge-in-mind/#comments Wed, 02 Mar 2022 00:13:55 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140111 Renee James knows about processors and she knows about the cloud. …

Designing Chips With The Cloud And Edge In Mind was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/03/01/designing-chips-with-the-cloud-and-edge-in-mind/feed/ 1 140111 How Facebook Architects Around Silent Data Corruption https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/03/01/facebook-architects-around-silent-data-corruption/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/03/01/facebook-architects-around-silent-data-corruption/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2021 04:00:11 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=137987 Silent but deadly: there is nothing more destructive than data corruptions that cannot be caught by the various error capture tools in hardware and even in software, can be hard to spot before they have infected an entire application. …

How Facebook Architects Around Silent Data Corruption was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/03/01/facebook-architects-around-silent-data-corruption/feed/ 1 137987 Minimalist Hyperscale Servers For The Rest Of Us https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/03/26/minimalist-hyperscale-servers-for-the-rest-of-us/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/03/26/minimalist-hyperscale-servers-for-the-rest-of-us/#comments Fri, 27 Mar 2020 00:05:41 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=132201 Server component and system maker Supermicro is known for being out in front when any X86 processor comes to market and often shoots the gap between ODMs, who have a relatively small number of large customers, and OEMs, who have a large number of relatively small customers. …

Minimalist Hyperscale Servers For The Rest Of Us was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Future Kubernetes Will Mimic What Facebook Already Does was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/06/10/future-kubernetes-will-mimic-what-facebook-already-does/feed/ 4 40038 How Facebook Might Find Nervana For Machine Learning Training https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/03/25/how-facebook-might-find-nervana-for-machine-learning-training/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/03/25/how-facebook-might-find-nervana-for-machine-learning-training/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2019 16:38:11 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=39595 There is a rumor going around that a certain hyperscaler is going to be augmenting its GPU-based machine learning training and will be adopting Intel’s Nervana Neural Network Processor (NNP) for at least some of its workloads. …

How Facebook Might Find Nervana For Machine Learning Training was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/03/25/how-facebook-might-find-nervana-for-machine-learning-training/feed/ 1 39595 Computational Storage Takes Data Locality To The Extreme https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/03/22/computational-storage-takes-data-locality-to-the-extreme/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/03/22/computational-storage-takes-data-locality-to-the-extreme/#respond Fri, 22 Mar 2019 17:16:02 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=39586 As the center of gravity shifts from compute to data, architectures are responding by moving the former a lot closer to the latter. …

Computational Storage Takes Data Locality To The Extreme was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/03/22/computational-storage-takes-data-locality-to-the-extreme/feed/ 0 39586 On The Hot Seat In The Hyperscale Datacenter https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/03/20/on-the-hot-seat-in-the-hyperscale-datacenter/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/03/20/on-the-hot-seat-in-the-hyperscale-datacenter/#respond Wed, 20 Mar 2019 22:17:23 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=39573 As one of the dominant hyperscalers in the world, Microsoft is out there on the cutting edge, driving efficiencies on every front it can in server, storage, switching, software, and datacenter design. …

On The Hot Seat In The Hyperscale Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/03/20/on-the-hot-seat-in-the-hyperscale-datacenter/feed/ 0 39573 How To Benefit From Facebook’s New Network Fabric https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/03/20/how-to-benefit-from-facebooks-new-network-fabric/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/03/20/how-to-benefit-from-facebooks-new-network-fabric/#respond Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:43:30 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=39564 In the modern distributed computing world, which is getting ever more disaggregated and some might say discombobulated, as every day passes, the architecture of the network in the datacenter is arguably the most important factor in determining if applications will perform well or not. …

How To Benefit From Facebook’s New Network Fabric was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/03/20/how-to-benefit-from-facebooks-new-network-fabric/feed/ 0 39564 Open Compute Takes Root Outside Of Hyperscalers https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/03/19/open-compute-takes-root-outside-of-hypercalers/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/03/19/open-compute-takes-root-outside-of-hypercalers/#respond Tue, 19 Mar 2019 19:01:17 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=39555 When Facebook open sourced the hardware and datacenter designs of its very first homegrown datacenter in Prineville, Oregon nearly eight years ago, creating the Open Compute Project, it was an act of enlightened self-interest. …

Open Compute Takes Root Outside Of Hyperscalers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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