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How ZeroPoint Optimizes Performance And Energy Use In Datacenters With Memory Compression
Sponsored Feature: Computers are taking over our daily tasks. For big tech, this means an increase in IT workloads and an expansion of advanced use cases in areas like artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), the Internet of Things (IoT), augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR). …
How ZeroPoint Optimizes Performance And Energy Use In Datacenters With Memory Compression was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
How HPC and Amazon EC2 Hpc6a Instances Are Accelerating Engineering Innovation
Sponsored Feature: The transformative power of modern engineering is nothing short of extraordinary. …
How HPC and Amazon EC2 Hpc6a Instances Are Accelerating Engineering Innovation was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
Why AI Inference Will Remain Largely On The CPU
Sponsored Feature: Training an AI model takes an enormous amount of compute capacity coupled with high bandwidth memory. …
Why AI Inference Will Remain Largely On The CPU was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
The Age Of Acceleration Engines
Sponsored Feature: Back in the old days, there was a CPU and chip designers crammed everything into that single CPU, which made sense for the greatest number of customers offset against the additional cost of adding extra functionality. …
The Age Of Acceleration Engines was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
DDoS DNS attacks are old-school, unsophisticated … and they’re back
SPONSORED: Ransomware may currently be the biggest bogeyman for cybersecurity pros, law enforcement, and governments, but it shouldn’t divert us from more traditional, but still very disruptive threats. …
DDoS DNS attacks are old-school, unsophisticated … and they’re back was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
Pushing the boundaries of web-scale optical DCI performance
SPONSORED: For nearly 150 years, we’ve been doing our best to squeeze messages into light. …
Pushing the boundaries of web-scale optical DCI performance was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
Power to the engineering people
SPONSORED: The value of great engineering is often overlooked, yet almost every object we use on a daily basis has been meticulously designed and tested by somebody somewhere to deliver the best possible performance and meet exacting cost and efficiency requirements. …
Power to the engineering people was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
HPC in the cloud for FEA
HOT SEAT INTERVIEW: Will your smartphone break if you drop it? …
HPC in the cloud for FEA was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
The workload-first approach to CPU innovation
Sponsored Post: As in so many other aspects of life, not all compute workloads are created equal – they need a more subtle approach to getting the best out of them which brings a more potent balance of hardware and software into the mix. …
The workload-first approach to CPU innovation was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
Queuing For Time On A Supercomputer Shouldn’t Be An Engineering Problem
Sponsored Feature: High performance computing continually sharpens the cutting edge of technology. …
Queuing For Time On A Supercomputer Shouldn’t Be An Engineering Problem was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
Faster and more accurate weather forecasting with HPC in the cloud
ADVERTORIAL: The increasing need for more accurate weather modelling rears its head on an almost daily basis, as the changing global climate proves to be one of humanity’s greatest challenges. …
Faster and more accurate weather forecasting with HPC in the cloud was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
The path to 800 Gigabit Ethernet revealed
Sponsored Feature: It’s a universal and immutable truth that data volumes continue to ramp up at eye-wateringly high rates. …
The path to 800 Gigabit Ethernet revealed was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
Reproducing the physical world in digital format needn’t be complex
Sponsored Feature: Technologists have been attempting to create digital worlds since the dawn of computing. …
Reproducing the physical world in digital format needn’t be complex was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
Missed the big CPU news this month?
Sponsored Post: In case you missed the big news earlier this month, Intel introduced its 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (formerly codenamed Sapphire Rapids) to a huge industry fanfare – groundbreaking datacenter silicon which promises to push the boundaries of performance for high performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI) and networking workloads. …
Missed the big CPU news this month? was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
Time to accelerate datacenter performance
Sponsored Post: CPU speed matters a lot to certain types of process-intensive applications like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), so anything that helps to boost the raw power of the servers which inhabit modern datacenters will provide a welcome performance boost. …
Time to accelerate datacenter performance was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
Application acceleration for the masses
Sponsored Feature: In an ideal world, if you knew exactly and precisely what application you are going to run, then co-designing a custom application and its processor would be a fairly simple matter and price/performance and performance per watt would always be as perfect as it could be. …
Application acceleration for the masses was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
CXL from promise to reality with real silicon on customer platforms
Sponsored Post: We all know that inferencing and training AI models needs a lot of CPU muscle, but we don’t necessarily appreciate how important other components are in supporting AI and ML applications. …
CXL from promise to reality with real silicon on customer platforms was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
Clouded thinking that could be costing us
Sponsored Post: It could be time to start examining our growing reliance on public cloud platforms. …
Clouded thinking that could be costing us was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.