InfiniBand was always supposed to be a mainstream fabric to be used across PCs, servers, storage, and networks, but the effort collapsed and the remains of the InfiniBand effort found a second life at the turn of the millennium as a high performance, low latency interconnect for supercomputers running simulations and models. …
Broadcom Tries To Kill InfiniBand And NVSwitch With One Ethernet Stone was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you need a big, badass box that can support tens of terabytes of memory, dozens of PCI-Express peripheral slots, thousands of directly attached storage devices, all feeding into hundreds of cores that can span that memory footprint with lots of bandwidth, you do not have a lot of options. …
The World’s Most Powerful Server Embiggens A Bit With Power11 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Perhaps the most interesting conversation that has happened so far in the White House in 2025, at least from the point of view of the IT sector, is when Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer, Jensen Huang, put on his Sunday best suit and visited President Donald Trump to presumably talk about technology, AI, trade, and war on July 10. …
The Art Of The GPU Deal was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Every major economy that is not the United States or China, which has a disproportionate share of HPC national labs as well as hyperscaler and cloud builder tech titans, wants AI sovereignty a whole lot more than they ever worried about HPC simulation and modeling. …
Brazil Lays The Hardware Foundation For Its AI Ambitions was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
This week, Amazon Web Services announced the availability of its first UltraServer pre-configured supercomputers based on Nvidia’s “Grace” CG100 CPUs and its “Blackwell” B200 GPUs in what is called a GB200 NVL72 shared GPU memory configuration. …
Sizing Up AWS “Blackwell” GPU Systems Against Prior GPUs And Trainiums was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
One of the biggest questions that enterprises, governments, academic institutions, and HPC centers the world over are going to have to answer very soon – if they have not made the decision already – is if they are going to train their own AI models and the inference software stacks that make them useful or just buy them from third parties and get to work integrating AI with their applications a lot faster. …
Will Companies Build Or Buy Their GenAI Models? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AI has the power to transform how organizations derive insights, make decisions, and unlock value, but all that depends on the quality of the data. …
How BigQuery Combines Data And AI For Business Transformation was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The European Union cannot practically declare its independence from Nvidia GPUs any more than any other nation can at this point. …
With Money And Rhea1 Tapeout, SiPearl Gets Real About HPC CPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There are definitely easier businesses to be in than operating a neocloud. …
Only The Biggest Neoclouds Will Survive was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
With AI being the biggest change in IT infrastructure since the Dot Com boom, it was no surprise that at the annual Cisco Live event last month in San Diego, the focus was on AI – and particularly agentic AI – and how the networking giant differentiates itself from other infrastructure vendors when it comes to the emerging technology. …
Silicon One: Many Cisco Chips With One Architecture Chasing Many AI Workloads was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The biggest challenge to AI initiatives is the data they rely on. …
How Multi-Agent Systems Revolutionize Data Workflows was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It has taken the better part of a year and a half and some wrangling with the US Department of Justice to get it done, but Hewlett Packard Enterprise has finally completed its $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks. …
How Will Juniper Change HPE’s Datacenter Networking Strategy? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As we have said many times here at The Next Platform, the only way to predict the actual future is to live it. …
Even AI Can’t Predict How Much Accelerated Iron The World Will Buy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Micron Technology has not just filled in a capacity shortfall for more high bandwidth stacked DRAM to feed GPU and XPU accelerators for AI and HPC. …
Skyrocketing HBM Will Push Micron Through $45 Billion And Beyond was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has kept a steady drumbeat for much of the year as it looks to position itself as the go-to IT hardware and software vendor for the rapidly expanding AI market, which has grown from chatbots to AI agents in under three years. …
HPE Throws Everything At AI – And AI At Everything was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Right or wrong, we still believe that we live in a world where traditional HPC simulation and modeling at high precision matters more than mashing up the sum total of human knowledge and mixing with the digital exhaust of our lives to create a globe-spanning automation that will leave us all with very little to do and a commensurate amount of wealth and power to show for it. …
Some Thoughts On The Future “Doudna” NERSC-10 Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There is not one Ethernet business, but several, and now, with the evolution of Ethernet switches for back-end AI cluster networks, there is a new one that has the possibility to dominate revenues and profits. …
Nvidia Passes Cisco And Rivals Arista In Datacenter Ethernet Sales was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sitting in an office at QuEra Computing’s Boston headquarters, Yuval Boger was talking about the recent advancements made in quantum computing that are driving the chorus around an accelerated the timeframe the launch of a usable and reliable system. …
QuEra Quantum System Leverages Neutral Atoms To Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It has been two and a half months since new chief executive officer Lip-Bu Tan gave the keynote at Intel’s Vision 2025 event, and the company has been relatively quiet by its own standards over the past several decades as Tan gets the lay of the land and tries to plot out the course of the company to rebuild its foundry business and reorient and focus its chip design and sales business. …
Intel Starts Re-Engineering Its Executive Ranks was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Given two endpoints and a compound annual growth rate between those two points over a specific amount of time is not as useful as it seems. …
Picking Apart AMD’s AI Accelerator Forecasts For Fun And Budgets was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.