Everyone knows that machine learning inference is going to be a big deal for commercial applications in the years ahead, but no one is precisely sure how much inference is going to be needed. …
IBM Bets Big On Native Inference With Big Iron was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
While it might not happen anytime soon, traditional supercomputing could be in for a sea change with wider acceptance of lower-precision calculations. …
More Proof Points for Low Precision HPC was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
When the top brass at Intel say that the “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon SP CPUs and “Ponte Vecchio” Xe HPC GPUs that are coming out early next year represent the “largest architectural shift in over a decade,” they ain’t kidding. …
Intel Finally Gets Chiplet Religion With Server Chips was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
All processor designs are the result of a delicate balancing act, perhaps most touchy in the case of a high performance CPU that needs to be all things to users, whether they’re running large HPC simulations, handling transaction processing, dispatching training runs or whipping out inference results. …
With AMX, Intel Adds AI/ML Sparkle to Sapphire Rapids was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Graph processing at hyperscale has historically been a challenge because of the sheer complexity of algorithms and graph workflows. …
How Alibaba Architects Around Massive Graph Complexity was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
It is hard to imagine how anyone could run Nvidia better than it is being run right now. …
Maybe Nvidia Should Buy VMware Instead Of Intel? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For much the three decades that Rambus has existed, it has largely focused on its patent portfolio and licensing its designs of memory interface technologies for a broad array of computer products. …
Rambus Gets On The CXL Gravy Train was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
So far, waferscale systems maker, Cerebras, has had its early success among the HPC centers looking for opportunities in AI and with drug makers, including GSK and AstraZeneca. …
Drug Discovery a Sweet Spot for Cerebras CS-2 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The term “mainstream” in the context of the largest systems on the planet still only means a select few. …
Mainstream Waferscale Closer Than It May Appear was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Australia, which handles a large portion of Square Kilometer Array (SKA) workloads in addition to other scientific computing initiatives, is preparing to take on more capability than they’ve ever seen. …
Pawsey Makes HPC Storage Connections for Setonix was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Europe is known for taking its own routes in almost every segment and supercomputing is no different. …
Europe’s Evolving View of “Continental Exascale” was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED The need for faster, larger, more accurate design cycles, along with the performance and cost advantages of GPUs, are all driving the next generation of CFD applications forward. …
The Future of Large-Scale CFD was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Scanning through Power10’s detailed announcement material, I’ve seen a lot architecturally that intrigues an avid reader of The Next Platform like myself, but one item – one that IBM calls “Memory Inception” and IBM-based techie material calls enablement for a “memory cluster” – really caught my eye. …
The Power Of Power10’s Memory Inception Clustering was written by Mark Funk at The Next Platform.
While involving AI/ML in the complex process of insurance claims now might be piecemeal, the future is bright for insurers to speed time to claim resolution by using image-based data and machine learning models to understand the scope of damage to vehicles or eventually, entire geographic regions. …
Next-Gen Insurers Are Going to Need (Way) More AI Horsepower was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Much has changed at online retail giant, Etsy, since 2015 when we talked to the company’s senior VP of technical operations about their adherence to their on-prem datacenters and database-driven approach to handling exponential growth. …
How Etsy Crafts AI/ML Cost, Optimization Balance was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Managing MySQL databases in the cloud is no easy chore, according to Steve Zivanic, vice president of database and autonomous services at Oracle. …
Pushing Cloud MySQL Performance The Oracle Way was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Commissioned In just about any situation where you are making capital investments in equipment, you are worried about three things: performance, price/performance, and total cost of ownership. …
Why The MLPerf Benchmark Is Good For AI, And Good For You was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The automotive industry has shown keen and early in quantum computing over the last several years, beginning most notably with Volkswagen, which rolled out a traffic simulation system with its hardware partner, D-Wave. …
Quantum Takes the Scenic Route in Automotive was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
As Google’s batch sizes for AI training continue to skyrocket, with some batch sizes ranging from over 100k to one million, the company’s research arm is looking at ways to improve everything from efficiency, scalability, and even privacy for those whose data is used in large-scale training runs. …
Google Chips Away at Problems at “Mega-Batch” Scale was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
In this era of hyperscaler and cloud builder titans, their seven of whom account for about half of the IT infrastructure bought in the world, it is important to remember the importance of niches and the vital role that other makers of systems, other sellers of systems, and other renters of systems all play in the IT ecosystem. …
The Challenge – And Opportunity – Of Being A Niche AI Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.