Nasdaq’s Cloudy Outlook for Global Market Technologies

It has taken well over a decade, but the momentum toward entirely cloud-based global capital markets is gaining force. …

Nasdaq’s Cloudy Outlook for Global Market Technologies was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

AWS Sizes Trainium for AI/ML Model Boom

While AWS is making it clear they will continue to innovate around GPUs for cloud-based machine learning, there was little doubt after today that their own Trainium devices are set to outdo what even the top-line Nvidia GPU instances have achieved. …

AWS Sizes Trainium for AI/ML Model Boom was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

NREL Supercomputer Announce Hints at Future Nvidia GPUs

At this point in supercomputing, it’s becoming an anomaly to see an upcoming double-digit petaflops system not using AMD for CPU and GPU but the National Renewable Energy Laboratory will be taking a more traditional route for the “Kestrel” machine. …

NREL Supercomputer Announce Hints at Future Nvidia GPUs was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Thailand Set to Join Global Supercomputing Elite

In the thirty years the Top 500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, Thailand has never had a system rank high enough to secure a spot. …

Thailand Set to Join Global Supercomputing Elite was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Tencent All In With Self-Styled AMD “Milan” Servers

Few things sound more Intel than “StarLake” but in fact, AMD is at the heart of an announcement with Chinese hyperscale giant, Tencent. …

Tencent All In With Self-Styled AMD “Milan” Servers was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

What Rescale’s $105M Funding Round Says About HPC Cloud

Patience in a slow-growing market is tough, but supercomputing cloud startup, Rescale, is reaping rewards for its persistence. …

What Rescale’s $105M Funding Round Says About HPC Cloud was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

China’s Exascale Quantum Simulation Not All It Appears

And actually, one could say it is also far more than it appears. …

China’s Exascale Quantum Simulation Not All It Appears was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Carbon Negative Supercomputing is Closer than it Appears

Datacenters are notorious consumers of power but there is a revolution brewing. …

Carbon Negative Supercomputing is Closer than it Appears was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Why Did China Keep Its Exascale Supercomputers Quiet?

There are no greater bragging rights in supercomputing than those that come with top ten listing on the bi-annual list of the world’s most powerful systems—the Top 500. …

Why Did China Keep Its Exascale Supercomputers Quiet? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

European Bank Sees Path to ‘Fastest AI Supercomputer’

While Hungarian banks with collective names like OTP Group might not have household recognition here in the U.S., …

European Bank Sees Path to ‘Fastest AI Supercomputer’ was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Microsoft Azure Brings the Cache with Milan-X

Microsoft has been among the first to build and operationalize clusters based on AMD’s Milan-X processors, which were formally announced this morning. …

Microsoft Azure Brings the Cache with Milan-X was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Real-World HPC Gets the Benchmark It Deserves

While nothing can beat the notoriety of the long-standing LINPACK benchmark, the metric by which supercomputer performance is gauged, there is ample room for a more practical measure. …

Real-World HPC Gets the Benchmark It Deserves was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

China Has Already Reached Exascale–On Two Separate Systems

Native CPU and accelerator architectures that have been in play on China’s previous large systems have been stepped up to make China first to exascale on two fronts.  …

China Has Already Reached Exascale–On Two Separate Systems was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Micron Urges Government Investment with R&D Spend

Over the last twenty years, memory has risen from 10% of the semiconductor market to almost 30%, a trend that is expected to continue, propelled by compute at the edge all the way up to datacenter. …

Micron Urges Government Investment with R&D Spend was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Getting Around the GPT-3 Waitlist, The Hard(Ware) Way

When we hear about the massive GPT-3 language model, it is natural to assume it is open source and ready for the taking. …

Getting Around the GPT-3 Waitlist, The Hard(Ware) Way was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Why JAX Could Be the Next Platform for HPC-AI

So many of Google’s technology developments have had major impacts in the commercial world but the company’s impact on scientific computing has been far less pronounced. …

Why JAX Could Be the Next Platform for HPC-AI was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Lenovo Neptune Makes Weather Supercomputers Cool Again

SPONSORED It is only natural the world’s top supercomputing sites in climate and weather modeling should be leading the charge for more efficient, sustainable, and green datacenter practices. …

Lenovo Neptune Makes Weather Supercomputers Cool Again was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Former Nervana Leads Target Optimal Training Configurations

Ex-Nervana Systems engineers made the jump from a hardware-centric approach to efficient training to pushing better insight into optimization of models and systems. …

Former Nervana Leads Target Optimal Training Configurations was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Raytheon, IBM Partner for Quantum in Defense, Aerospace

In the history of defense technology contracting, two companies continue to loom large: IBM and Raytheon.

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Raytheon, IBM Partner for Quantum in Defense, Aerospace was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

A Clear View on the AI Hardware Mirage

Clear Ventures managed to stay out of the AI chip startup investment fray of the last several years. …

A Clear View on the AI Hardware Mirage was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.