Daniel Robinson, Author at The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/author/drobinson/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Thu, 17 Aug 2023 14:23:36 +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 Daniel Robinson, Author at The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/author/drobinson/ 32 32 86113652 US Defense Department Assembles Generative AI Task Force https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/08/17/us-defense-department-assembles-generative-ai-task-force/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/08/17/us-defense-department-assembles-generative-ai-task-force/#comments Thu, 17 Aug 2023 14:23:36 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=142773 The Department of Defense in the United States has established a generative AI task force to help oversee the process of adopting AI tools across the department while avoiding some of the pitfalls of such deoployments. …

US Defense Department Assembles Generative AI Task Force was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/08/17/us-defense-department-assembles-generative-ai-task-force/feed/ 5 142773 Vultr Slices Up GPUs On The Cloud To Democratize Acceleration https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/05/24/vultr-slices-up-gpus-on-the-cloud-to-democratize-acceleration/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/05/24/vultr-slices-up-gpus-on-the-cloud-to-democratize-acceleration/#respond Tue, 24 May 2022 14:43:40 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140614 Not all cloud providers are the same, and even among the three cloud giants – Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud – there is some measure of differentiation. …

Vultr Slices Up GPUs On The Cloud To Democratize Acceleration was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/05/24/vultr-slices-up-gpus-on-the-cloud-to-democratize-acceleration/feed/ 0 140614 Cisco Surfs The Liquid Cooling Wave In The Datacenter https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/04/27/cisco-surfs-the-liquid-cooling-wave-in-the-datacenter/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/04/27/cisco-surfs-the-liquid-cooling-wave-in-the-datacenter/#respond Wed, 27 Apr 2022 14:27:04 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140479 High performance systems have a long history of using water cooling, but advancements in semiconductor technology in the 1980s allowed for big iron to have a few decades of using air cooling. …

Cisco Surfs The Liquid Cooling Wave In The Datacenter was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/04/27/cisco-surfs-the-liquid-cooling-wave-in-the-datacenter/feed/ 0 140479 Will Open Compute Backing Drive SIOV Adoption? https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/03/30/will-open-compute-backing-drive-siov-adoption/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/03/30/will-open-compute-backing-drive-siov-adoption/#comments Wed, 30 Mar 2022 22:33:29 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140351 Virtualization has been an engine of efficiency in the IT industry over the past two decades, decoupling workloads from the underlying hardware and thus allowing multiple workloads to be consolidated into a single physical system as well as moved around relatively easily with live migration of virtual machines. …

Will Open Compute Backing Drive SIOV Adoption? was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/03/30/will-open-compute-backing-drive-siov-adoption/feed/ 1 140351 Slurm HPC Job Scheduler Applies For Work In AI And Hybrid Cloud https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/03/16/slurm-hpc-job-scheduler-applies-for-work-in-ai-and-hybrid-cloud/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/03/16/slurm-hpc-job-scheduler-applies-for-work-in-ai-and-hybrid-cloud/#respond Wed, 16 Mar 2022 22:15:03 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140220 The Slurm Workload Manager that has its origins at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as the Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management – and which is used on about two-thirds of the most powerful HPC systems in the world – is looking for new jobs to take on across hybrid cloud infrastructure and machine learning systems running at scale. …

Slurm HPC Job Scheduler Applies For Work In AI And Hybrid Cloud was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/03/16/slurm-hpc-job-scheduler-applies-for-work-in-ai-and-hybrid-cloud/feed/ 0 140220 Breaking Data Silos Open With An Apache Arrow Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/03/07/breaking-data-silos-open-with-an-apache-arrow-platform/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/03/07/breaking-data-silos-open-with-an-apache-arrow-platform/#respond Mon, 07 Mar 2022 19:02:24 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140168 Voltron Data officially launched last month with a mission to make Apache Arrow easier to use for big data analytics projects, and in particular to focus on improving interoperability with other systems. …

Breaking Data Silos Open With An Apache Arrow Platform was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/03/07/breaking-data-silos-open-with-an-apache-arrow-platform/feed/ 0 140168 Australia’s NCI Adds Ceph Object Storage To Lustre File Systems https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/03/03/australias-nci-adds-ceph-object-storage-to-lustre-file-systems/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/03/03/australias-nci-adds-ceph-object-storage-to-lustre-file-systems/#respond Thu, 03 Mar 2022 16:37:26 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140132 Object storage has been drawing an increasing level of interest from organizations over the past several years as a convenient way to store and manage the growing quantities of data they are accumulating, especially when that may be a mix of structured and unstructured data and a lot of machine-generated telemetry. …

Australia’s NCI Adds Ceph Object Storage To Lustre File Systems was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/03/03/australias-nci-adds-ceph-object-storage-to-lustre-file-systems/feed/ 0 140132 Building The Bridge To The Quantum Future With Hybrid Systems https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/02/22/building-the-bridge-to-the-quantum-future-with-hybrid-systems/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/02/22/building-the-bridge-to-the-quantum-future-with-hybrid-systems/#respond Tue, 22 Feb 2022 14:18:13 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140058 While there is a lot of hype, there is no question that quantum computers are going to revolutionize computing. …

Building The Bridge To The Quantum Future With Hybrid Systems was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/02/22/building-the-bridge-to-the-quantum-future-with-hybrid-systems/feed/ 0 140058 Intel Targets DAOS Object Storage At More Than HPC https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/02/14/intel-targets-daos-object-storage-at-more-than-hpc/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/02/14/intel-targets-daos-object-storage-at-more-than-hpc/#comments Mon, 14 Feb 2022 15:48:24 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140019 Intel is looking to position itself as a leader in AI and HPC through a holistic approach that plays to the company’s strengths across a broad swath of the IT ecosystem. …

Intel Targets DAOS Object Storage At More Than HPC was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/02/14/intel-targets-daos-object-storage-at-more-than-hpc/feed/ 2 140019 Arm CPUs To Take A Bite Out Of The HPC Market https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/02/04/arm-cpus-to-take-a-bite-out-of-the-hpc-market/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/02/04/arm-cpus-to-take-a-bite-out-of-the-hpc-market/#respond Fri, 04 Feb 2022 16:33:58 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=139972 Arm-based servers have had a somewhat checkered history that has seen many abortive attempts to challenge the X86 processor hegemony, but the firm appears bullish about its chances in the high performance computing (HPC) sector, where it believes its licensing model and the energy efficiency of its architecture give it an edge. …

Arm CPUs To Take A Bite Out Of The HPC Market was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.

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