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Nvidia Rolls Out Blueprints For The Next Wave Of Generative AI
Hardware is always the star of Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference, and this year we got previews of “Blackwell” datacenter GPUs, the cornerstone of a 2025 platform that includes “Grace” CPUs, the NVLink Switch 5 chip, the Bluefield-3 DPU, and other components, all of which Nvidia is talking about again this week at the Hot Chips 2024 conference. …
Nvidia Rolls Out Blueprints For The Next Wave Of Generative AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
When Nvidia Says Hot Chips, It Means Hot Platforms
Nvidia hit a rare patch of bad news earlier this month when reports started circulating claiming that the company’s much-anticipated “Blackwell” GPU accelerators could be delayed by as much as three months due to design flaws. …
When Nvidia Says Hot Chips, It Means Hot Platforms was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Rackspace Goes All In – Again – On OpenStack
Rackspace Technology has admittedly been relatively quiet in recent years when it’s come to OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure platform that was born in 2010 out of the collaboration between the cloud computing company and NASA. …
Rackspace Goes All In – Again – On OpenStack was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
For Meta Platforms, An Open AI Policy Is The Best Policy
For Mark Zuckerberg, the decision by Meta Platforms – and way back when it was still known as Facebook – to open much of its technology – including server and storage designs, datacenter designs, and most recently its Llama AI large language models – came about because the company often found itself trailing competitors when it came to deploying advanced technologies. …
For Meta Platforms, An Open AI Policy Is The Best Policy was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Meta Lets Its Largest Llama AI Model Loose Into The Open Field
A scant three months ago, when Meta Platforms released the Llama 3 AI model in 8B and 70B versions, which correspond to the billions of parameters they can span, we asked the question we ask of every open source tool or platform since the dawn of Linux: Who’s going to profit from it and how are they going to do it? …
Meta Lets Its Largest Llama AI Model Loose Into The Open Field was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
GPU-Armed Scientists Solve A Quantum Annealing Debate
There is a seemingly endless list of problems to be solved and issues to be addressed in vendors’ steady march toward quantum computing. …
GPU-Armed Scientists Solve A Quantum Annealing Debate was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Cloud Foundation Updates Reflect The New VMware By Broadcom
Broadcom’s $69 billion acquisition of virtualization stalwart VMware was not an easy proposition. …
Cloud Foundation Updates Reflect The New VMware By Broadcom was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
HPE Goes After Enterprise AI With Nvidia GPU Engines
This week is another major conference for a server OEM, and that must mean it is another time for an OEM to announce its tight partnership with AI compute engine juggernaut Nvidia. …
HPE Goes After Enterprise AI With Nvidia GPU Engines was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
D-Wave Is Still Making The Case For Annealing Quantum Computing
Murray Thom, vice president for quantum technology evangelism for D-Wave, knows that his company for more than two decades has played a key role in a somewhat unusual industry. …
D-Wave Is Still Making The Case For Annealing Quantum Computing was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The Increasing Impatience Of The Speed Of The PCI-Express Roadmap
Richard Solomon has heard the rumblings over the years. As vice president of PCI-SIG, the organization that controls the development of the PCI-Express specification, he has listened to questions about how long it takes the group to bring the latest spec to the industry. …
The Increasing Impatience Of The Speed Of The PCI-Express Roadmap was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Cisco Pushes Nvidia Enterprise AI, But Has Its Own Network Agenda
In those heady months following OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, much of the IT industry’s focus was on huge and expensive cloud infrastructures running on powerful GPU clusters to train the large language models that underpin the chatbots and other generative AI workloads. …
Cisco Pushes Nvidia Enterprise AI, But Has Its Own Network Agenda was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Subaru Drives Its EyeSight System Forward With AI Augmentation
Several years ago, Subaru set a goal to stop fatal accidents involving its cars in 2030 and is leaning heavily on AI to reach the target. …
Subaru Drives Its EyeSight System Forward With AI Augmentation was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Dell Wants To Help You Build Your AI Factory
No surprises here: Reviewing first quarter earnings calls of S&P 500 companies, London-based analytics firm GlobalData found that generative AI was a key point of discussion among a growing number of the public companies. …
Dell Wants To Help You Build Your AI Factory was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Companies Need On-Premise HPC – And For More Than AI, Too
Generative AI and the various capacity and latency needs it has for compute and storage is muscling out almost every other topic when conversations turn to HPC and enterprise. …
Companies Need On-Premise HPC – And For More Than AI, Too was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Red Hat Saddles Up For The Wide Open GenAI Horizons
A theme snaking its way through conversations these days about generative AI is the need for open source models, open platforms, and industry standards as ways to make the emerging technology more accessible and widely adopted by enterprises. …
Red Hat Saddles Up For The Wide Open GenAI Horizons was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Power Efficiency, Customization Will Drive Arm’s Role In AI
More than a decade ago, executives at Arm Ltd saw the energy costs in datacenters soaring and sensed an opportunity to extend the low-power architecture of its eponymous systems-on-a-chip that has dominated the mobile phone markets from the get-go and took over the embedded device market from PowerPC into enterprise servers. …
Power Efficiency, Customization Will Drive Arm’s Role In AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
AWS Hedges Its Bets With Nvidia GPUs And Homegrown AI Chips
There was a time – and it doesn’t seem like that long ago – that the datacenter chip market was a big-money but relatively simple landscape, with CPUs from Intel and AMD and Arm looking to muscle its way in and GPUs mostly from Nvidia with some from AMD and Intel looking to muscle its way in. …
AWS Hedges Its Bets With Nvidia GPUs And Homegrown AI Chips was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Gelsinger: With Gaudi 3 and Xeon 6, AI Workloads Will Come Our Way
The steady rise of AI over the past several years – and the accelerated growth with the introduction generative AI since OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 – has shifted Intel’s status as a challenger in a chip market that it long had dominated. …
Gelsinger: With Gaudi 3 and Xeon 6, AI Workloads Will Come Our Way was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Couchbase Joins The Vector Search In Database Fray
As we have noted before, vector databases aren’t new even though people talk about them that way, and in fact can trace their origins back a few decades. …
Couchbase Joins The Vector Search In Database Fray was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
AMD Flexing Spartan FPGA Muscles In Clouds And At Edges
The edge is continuing to become a place where IT infrastructure vendors need to be, and that includes chip makers, all of whom have strategies to push their silicon to where the data is increasingly being generated and needs to be stored, processed, and analyzed. …
AMD Flexing Spartan FPGA Muscles In Clouds And At Edges was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.