In an ideal platform cloud, you would not know or care what the underlying hardware was and how it was composed to run your HPC – and now AI – applications. The underlying hardware in a cloud would have a mix of different kinds of compute and storage, an all-to-all network lashing it together, and whatever you needed could be composed on the fly. This is precisely the kind of compute cloud that Google wanted to build back in April 2008 with App Engine and, as it turns out, that very… Source link
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