The Next Platform brings together coverage of high performance computing (HPC) or supercomputing with advances among the hyperscale datacenter operators and cloud builders, all of whom are pushing the upper limits of scalability. These latter two organizations provide large enterprises either with technology to manage their most complex and demanding workloads or the inspiration to build such systems themselves. The Next Platform covers the key elements of the modern system, from processors, main memory, storage, and networking up through operating systems, middleware, and other key systems software such as databases and data stores, systems management tools, as well as cluster and cloud controllers. It will look at the myriad clustering technologies, from hyperconverged systems for virtualized enterprise workloads, to shared memory NUMA machines, all the way up to the core supercomputing systems powering top-tier research and enterprise organizations. Part of the Situation Publishing stable of publications