When it comes to neural network training, Python is the language of choice. …
Python Could Reset the AI Inference Playing Field was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Amazon Web Services, the juggernaut of cloud computing, may be forging its own path with Arm-based CPUs and associated DPUs thanks to its 2015 acquisition of Annapurna Labs for $350 million. …
Is AWS Making The Switch To Homegrown Network ASICs? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The past several years haven’t been easy on Intel. The world’s top processor maker stumbled on its transition from 14 nanometer to 10 nanometer manufacturing and still finds itself behind rivals like AMD and Arm, which have made the move to 7 nanometer processes and which have line of sight on 5 nanometer. …
Gelsinger Leads Emboldened Intel With Ice Lake Launch was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
At long last, Intel is finally shipping a Xeon SP processor that is based on a 10 nanometer chip manufacturing process and it is finally able to do a better job competing on the technical and economic merits of its Xeon SP processors as architected rather than playing the total system card or the risk card or the discount card to keep its core datacenter compute engine business humming along. …
Intel Fields A 10 Nanometer Server Chip That Competes was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For storage startups focused on the highest end of infrastructure, removing the costs associated with a hardware business might be the only way to reach potential.
Vast Data Sheds Hardware Business to Tackle Largest Users was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Over the past several years, VMware has developed a sprawling portfolio of cloud capabilities that stretch from on-premises datacenters and private clouds out to the public cloud and increasingly into the edge environment. …
VMware Unifies Its Cloud Front was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the largest integrated healthcare system in the United States. …
Improving Surgical Precision with Augmented Reality was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
There are few better ways to land on the radar than having an ongoing contract with NASA for systems and software. …
NASA Sets Launch Pad for HPC, ML Startups was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Many of us have been wracking our brains why Nvidia would spend a fortune – a whopping $40 billion – to acquire Arm Holdings, a chip architecture licensing company that generates on the order of $2 billion in sales – since the deal was rumored back in July 2020. …
Arm’s v9 Architecture Explains Why Nvidia Needs To Buy It was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Over the next year, we should get a good sense of how the Cerebras CS-1 system performs for dual HPC and AI workloads between installations at Argonne and Lawrence Livermore labs, EPCC, and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC). …
Neocortex Supercomputer to Put Cerebras CS-1 to the Test was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
In 2019, Hewlett Packard Enterprise was the first top-tier tech vendor to make the plunge, announcing that it planned to make its entire portfolio – all of its hardware as well as software – available as a service by 2022, leveraging its GreenLake hybrid cloud platform to answer the call to make the on-premises datacenter experience as cloud-like as possible. …
Why Not Networking As A Service? But How? was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED Mention GPUs these days, and you will naturally think about how they can accelerate the most challenging AI and machine learning workloads as well as how they are used in gaming platforms. …
How Are GPUs Going To Change Your Working World? It’s AI, Everywhere was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
For neural networks to expand into more areas in traditional supercomputing, especially in areas where image data is key, high image fidelity and accuracy are critical. …
AI Systems Startup Scales Argonne’s Cosmic Cleanup was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The “Milan” Epyc 7003 processors, the third generation of AMD’s revitalized server CPUs, is now in the field, and we await the entry of the “Ice Lake” Xeon SPs from Intel for the next jousting match in the datacenter to begin. …
Deep Dive Into AMD’s “Milan” Epyc 7003 Architecture was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It seems like a question a child would ask: “Why are things the way they are?” …
The World Has Changed – Why Haven’t Database Designs? was written by Avishai Ish-Shalom at The Next Platform.
Newly anointed Intel chief executive officer Pat Gelsinger held the coming out party for his strategy to get the world’s largest chip manufacturer and designer back on track, called “Intel Unleashed: Engineering The Future,” on Tuesday after the market closed. …
Intel Decides To Engineer Its Fab-Filled Future After All was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
While securing the high-end particle physics market segment is not likely to push any of the AI/ML ASICS into competition with GPUs anytime soon, the chipmakers that can prove their value on some of the most demanding, real-time AI workloads can capture some serious mindshare. …
Graphcore Shows GAN Gains for CERN was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The server market is a multi-cylinder engine, with eight major hyperscalers and cloud builders all doing their thing almost independently of each other and of the economic conditions at large and the rest of the market being more subject to the waxing and waning of the economic tides. …
Server Sales Boom In China, Bleed Air Elsewhere was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For two decades now, Google has demonstrated perhaps more than any other company that the datacenter is the new computer, what the search engine giant called a “warehouse-scale machine” way back in 2009 with a paper written by Urs Hölzle, who was and still is senior vice president for Technical Infrastructure at Google, and Luiz André Barroso, who is vice president of engineering for the core products at Google and who was a researcher at Digital Equipment and Compaq before that. …
Google Says The SOC Is The New Motherboard was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
After toiling away in relative obscurity for over a decade, open source Julia is right on time for the big enterprise AI/ML code modernization party.
Why Julia is Turning Heads in 2021 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.