It is beginning to look like AMD’s Instinct datacenter GPU accelerator business is going to do a lot better in 2024 than many had expected and that the company’s initial forecasts given back in October anticipated. …
How The “Antares” MI300 GPU Ramp Will Save AMD’s Datacenter Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It was only six months ago when we were talking about how system maker Supermicro was breaking through a $10 billion annual revenue run rate and was setting its sights on a $20 billion target. …
Supermicro Racks Up The AI Servers And Rakes In The Big Bucks was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The national supercomputing centers in the United States, Europe, and China are not only rich enough to build very powerful machines, but they are rich enough, thanks to their national governments, to underwrite and support multiple and somewhat incompatible architectures to hedge their bets and mitigate their risk. …
With Vista, TACC Now Has Three Paths To Its Future Horizon Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Having commercialized its waferscale AI computing platform to a certain extent over the past several year, Cerebras Systems reportedly wants to get an initial public offering done before the AI hype peaks. …
Cerebras To Ride The AI Wave To An IPO This Year? was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.
A few years back, when Intel went up on the rocks with its CPU and GPU designs largely because its chip research and manufacturing did not keep pace with the manufacturing and packaging advances made by foundry rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, we said that we were rapidly moving towards a world where Intel might have 40 percent of the CPU market, AMD might have 40 percent, and Arm and RISC-V would fight over the remaining 19 percent and 1 percent remaining for other exotic datacenter compute engine chippery. …
The Tough Road Still Ahead For Intel In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Some patterns are very hard to break. From the very early days of the systems business as we know it, which started six decades ago, the fourth quarter of the calendar year has been the money maker for companies like IBM, and the second quarter has been a relatively big one for those who could not get their budgets together before the end of the prior year. …
Big Blue Bucks The Datacenter Server Recession was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The big oil and gas companies of the world were among the earliest and most enthusiastic users of advanced machinery to do HPC simulation and modeling. …
Energy Giant Eni Boosts Its HPC Oomph By An Order Of Magnitude was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED: DevOps has matured to the point in its evolution where its practitioners are often expected to play a full part in helping to make IT operations more agile. …
The Age Of Edge Ops Is Upon Us was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There is no question that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co is one of the best bellwethers of the IT industry. …
TSMC Is A Bellwether For IT, But It Is Not The Weather Of All IT was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The datacenter industry today looks very different than it did a decade ago. …
Expect Datacenters To Get Denser, Hotter, And Smarter was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED: MemCon 2024 is billed as a one stop shop for emerging technologies in the memory and storage domain, and a hub for efficient data movement and management. …
How To Get Over The Memory Wall was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
Change may be inevitable, but it is also a pain in the neck. …
IT Spending In 2024 Cools Thanks To “Change Fatigue” was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Here is how you know that the way chiplets are linked together to create what might have otherwise been a monolithic device is now more important than the way that the chiplets themselves are designed. …
Chip Packaging Trumps EDA: Why Synopsys Is Paying $35 Billion For Ansys was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
COMMISSIONED: Edge security is a growing headache. The attack surface is expanding as more operational functions migrate out of centralized locations and into distributed sites and devices. …
Locking Down The Edge was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The central tenets of cloud computing, which really ought to be called utility computing, is that you only pay for what you use and that you can turn compute, storage, and networking off when you are not actually using, thus freeing up capacity for those who need it. …
No More Roach Motels For Data In The Clouds was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The melding of low and high precision mathematics to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery has been a topic of discussion for some time now. …
Combining AI With HPC To Find Better Battery Designs was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.
We have five decades of very fine-grained analysis of CPU compute engines in the datacenter, and changes come at a steady but glacial pace when it comes to CPU serving. …
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The Datacenter GPU Gravy Train That No One Will Derail was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Commissioned: After two years of collective confinement, the world’s population rushed outdoors with a passion. …
The post Urban mobility transformation enhances the “Fast” but removes the “Furious” first appeared on The Next Platform.
Urban mobility transformation enhances the “Fast” but removes the “Furious” was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
For traditional HPC workloads, AMD’s MI250X is still a powerhouse when it comes to double precision floating point grunt. …
The post Sometimes The Best AI Accelerator Is The 37,888 GPUs You Already Have first appeared on The Next Platform.
Sometimes The Best AI Accelerator Is The 37,888 GPUs You Already Have was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED FEATURE: The next generation internet is all about experience. Hyperscalers like Google, Azure and Facebook epitomize the importance of both technological and customer experience. …
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Why hyperscale networks have been decades in the making was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.