Power Efficiency, Customization Will Drive Arm’s Role In AI

More than a decade ago, executives at Arm Ltd saw the energy costs in datacenters soaring and sensed an opportunity to extend the low-power architecture of its eponymous systems-on-a-chip that has dominated the mobile phone markets from the get-go and took over the embedded device market from PowerPC into enterprise servers. …

Power Efficiency, Customization Will Drive Arm’s Role In AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

AWS Hedges Its Bets With Nvidia GPUs And Homegrown AI Chips

There was a time – and it doesn’t seem like that long ago – that the datacenter chip market was a big-money but relatively simple landscape, with CPUs from Intel and AMD and Arm looking to muscle its way in and GPUs mostly from Nvidia with some from AMD and Intel looking to muscle its way in. …

AWS Hedges Its Bets With Nvidia GPUs And Homegrown AI Chips was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Gelsinger: With Gaudi 3 and Xeon 6, AI Workloads Will Come Our Way

The steady rise of AI over the past several years – and the accelerated growth with the introduction generative AI since OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 – has shifted Intel’s status as a challenger in a chip market that it long had dominated. …

Gelsinger: With Gaudi 3 and Xeon 6, AI Workloads Will Come Our Way was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Couchbase Joins The Vector Search In Database Fray

As we have noted before, vector databases aren’t new even though people talk about them that way, and in fact can trace their origins back a few decades. …

Couchbase Joins The Vector Search In Database Fray was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

AMD Flexing Spartan FPGA Muscles In Clouds And At Edges

The edge is continuing to become a place where IT infrastructure vendors need to be, and that includes chip makers, all of whom have strategies to push their silicon to where the data is increasingly being generated and needs to be stored, processed, and analyzed. …

AMD Flexing Spartan FPGA Muscles In Clouds And At Edges was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Synopsys Shepherds Circuits Towards 1.6T Ethernet

The Ethernet roadmap has had a few bumps and potholes in the four and a half decades since the 10M generation was first published in 1980. …

Synopsys Shepherds Circuits Towards 1.6T Ethernet was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Kubernetes Clusters Have Massive Overprovisioning Of Compute And Memory

In the ten years since Google released Kubernetes to the open source community, it has become the dominant platform for orchestrating and managing software containers and microservices, along the way muscling out competitors like Docker Swarm and Mesosphere. …

Kubernetes Clusters Have Massive Overprovisioning Of Compute And Memory was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

You Can Build GenAI From Scratch, Or Go Straight To SaaS

The vibe around generative AI is still one of a land rush since OpenAI unleased ChatGPT into the public sphere in late November 2022, with investors dishing out millions of dollars, vendors big and small pumping out products and services, and organizations trying to integrate them into their back-office and user-facing operations. …

You Can Build GenAI From Scratch, Or Go Straight To SaaS was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Google Gives A Peek At What A Quantum Computer Can Do

Four years ago, Google engineers boasted of achieving “quantum supremacy” following experiments that showed its 53-qubit Sycamore quantum system solving problems that classical supercomputers either can’t or take a very long time to accomplish. …

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Google Gives A Peek At What A Quantum Computer Can Do was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Linux Is The Next Platform, But Who Pays To Maintain It?

Red Hat has once again dropped another huge boulder into the normally serene – or at least relatively calm – open source waters. …

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Linux Is The Next Platform, But Who Pays To Maintain It? was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Giving Cloud Data Warehouses A Relational Knowledge Graph Overlay

The cloud has been a boon for enterprises trying to manage the massive amounts of data they collect every year. …

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Giving Cloud Data Warehouses A Relational Knowledge Graph Overlay was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

With Huge Costs, Efficiency Is The Key To Mainstreaming Generative AI

The hype around generative AI is making every industry vibrate at an increasingly high pitch in a way that we have not seen since the days of the Dot Com boom and sock puppets. …

With Huge Costs, Efficiency Is The Key To Mainstreaming Generative AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Beefing Up A Cloudy NoSQL Database To Ride The AI Wave

To Andrew Davidson, senior vice president of products at MongoDB, the database business operates in an entirely different type of market than traditional software, where vendors might sell their products into one organization after another, eventually reaching a saturation point. …

Beefing Up A Cloudy NoSQL Database To Ride The AI Wave was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

The Big Clouds Get First Dibs On AMD “Genoa” Chips

The expanded lineup of AMD’s 4^th generation “Genoa” Epyc server chips – built atop “Zen 4” core and some with the chip maker’s L3-boosting 3D V-Cache – unveiled at a high-profile event in San Francisco this week is quickly making its way into the cloud. …

The Big Clouds Get First Dibs On AMD “Genoa” Chips was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Reports Of OpenStack’s Death Greatly Exaggerated

OpenStack, the venerable open source cloud controller born in 2010 out projects pulled together by Rackspace Hosting and NASA, continues to push on despite its death being predicted myriad times over the past several years. …

Reports Of OpenStack’s Death Greatly Exaggerated was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

In The Multicloud World, The Data’s The Thing

When three years ago Dell rolled out its Apex initiative, the massive IT supplier was joining a growing list of tech companies like HPE, Lenovo, and Cisco who were adapting to a rapidly expanding multicloud world by making their product portfolios available in a cloud-like, as-a-service model. …

In The Multicloud World, The Data’s The Thing was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Boosting AI Storage With QLC Flash And Deduplication

A few years ago, DirectData Networks gave us a hint at the tectonic-like shifts that were emerging in datacenters at enterprises and high-end research institutions and were shaping the strategy of a company that had made its name in HPC with its parallel file system technology. …

Boosting AI Storage With QLC Flash And Deduplication was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

AI Is Coming In The Front Door To Get The Back Office

Large language models can be fun, as shown by the wild popularity of ChatGPT since OpenAI tossed the generative AI chatbot into the public sphere in late November and let people have at it. …

AI Is Coming In The Front Door To Get The Back Office was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

The Roads To Zettascale And Quantum Computing Are Long And Winding

In the United States, the first step on the road to exascale HPC systems began with a series of workshops in 2007. …

The Roads To Zettascale And Quantum Computing Are Long And Winding was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

There’s Still A Long Way To Go With Generative AI

The tech world is awash with generative AI, which for a company like Nvidia, is a good thing. …

There’s Still A Long Way To Go With Generative AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.