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CFD Could Be the Engine That Drives Waferscale Mainstream
A decade ago, waferscale architectures were dismissed as impractical. Five years ago, they were touted as a fringe possibility for AI/ML. …
CFD Could Be the Engine That Drives Waferscale Mainstream was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Myths and Legends in HPC…With Some Legends
It’s rare in supercomputing to discover a paper that’s both insightful and amusing, but a distributed team led by Dr. …
Myths and Legends in HPC…With Some Legends was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
SPEC Gets Serious About Datacenter Energy Metrics
Performance per watt is garnering increasing attention these days with efficiency and sustainability less of a PR point of pride and far more of a TCO concern. …
SPEC Gets Serious About Datacenter Energy Metrics was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
KAUST Goes For Nvidia CPU-GPU, AMD CPU Combo In Shaheen-III Supercomputer
The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia has introduced the latest in its long-standing lineup of successive supercomputers with Shaheen III. …
KAUST Goes For Nvidia CPU-GPU, AMD CPU Combo In Shaheen-III Supercomputer was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
China’s ByteDance Intros Different Approach to Recommendation at Scale
Beijing-based hyperscale giant, ByteDance, owners of TikTok among other popular applications, have found that general purpose, open source recommendation engines fall far short of what is required for on-point real-time suggestions. …
China’s ByteDance Intros Different Approach to Recommendation at Scale was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Futurist Keynote: Professor Sue Black, June 14
SPONSORED POST Technology has changed the lives of countless people over the years, many of them women from underserved communities who have been helped through education and onto the career ladder by the improved methods of communication, collaboration, and information dissemination which IT innovation has consistently enabled. …
Futurist Keynote: Professor Sue Black, June 14 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Strong Showing for First Experimental RISC-V Supercomputer
A European team of university students has cobbled together the first RISC-V supercomputer capable of showing balanced power consumption and performance. …
Strong Showing for First Experimental RISC-V Supercomputer was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Poor Hardware Utilization Puts Squeeze on AI Compression
One of the most pressing challenges in deploying deep learning at scale, especially for social media giant, Meta, is making full use of hardware for inference as well as training. …
Poor Hardware Utilization Puts Squeeze on AI Compression was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Fujitsu Cloud Service to Put Fugaku Supercomputer in Reach
For those looking to try out Fujitsu’s Arm-based PRIMEHPC FX1000 system, the company is opening up the same capabilities via its own cloud service. …
Fujitsu Cloud Service to Put Fugaku Supercomputer in Reach was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Lenovo Pushes Record Revenue into New R&D
Fresh off a record revenue quarter, Lenovo plans to add 12,000 R&D staff members to their global ranks over the next three years, according to the company’s Chairman and CEO, Yuanqing Yang. …
Lenovo Pushes Record Revenue into New R&D was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Distributed AI Training SETI-Style on Idle Cloud
Poor utilization is not the single domain of on-prem datacenters. Despite packing instances full of users, the largest cloud providers have similar problems. …
Distributed AI Training SETI-Style on Idle Cloud was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Aspiration Versus Action for Enterprise AI
Most of the large companies and institutions we cover here at The Next Platform have already been in the AI/ML trenches, particularly the hyperscale web and media companies (where much of this work began) and in high performance computing. …
Aspiration Versus Action for Enterprise AI was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
LG Sees Clear Quantum Picture with IBM
LG Electronics plans to explore quantum applications with IBM in the coming years with emphasis on areas as diverse as AI, IoT, robotics, and analytics on the table for potential quantum speedups. …
LG Sees Clear Quantum Picture with IBM was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Transportation, Logistics in the Quantum Crosshairs
Ask any quantum computing startup (and there are too many count) about the rate of enterprise adoption for the emerging technology and the response will be quick: Fortune 500s are all investing heavily. …
Transportation, Logistics in the Quantum Crosshairs was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
AI Chipmaker Groq Chases Financial Risk Firms
When Tim Sears ran complex portfolio risk analysis on Wall Street in 2004, an eight-hour, overnight run was the best that could be expected, even on high-end hardware. …
AI Chipmaker Groq Chases Financial Risk Firms was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Strong Showing for Julia Across HPC Platforms
There are good reasons for the persistence of C, C++ and Fortran in high performance computing, even with some the inherent productivity challenges (extensive memory management and debugging in particular). …
Strong Showing for Julia Across HPC Platforms was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The Five Horsemen of the Data Apocalypse
One could argue that the last few years have highlighted some of the most pressing semiconductor industry issues but there are challenges on the horizon well beyond current supply chain and silicon manufacturing bottlenecks. …
The Five Horsemen of the Data Apocalypse was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Europe Clears Path to 2023 Exascale Supercomputer
While the U.S., China, Japan and other countries have laid out, or even achieved, exascale supercomputing goals, the European continent has been less clear on its own path. …
Europe Clears Path to 2023 Exascale Supercomputer was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Intel’s Component Keys for Pushing Moore’s Law
Stretching the trajectory of Moore’s Law takes quite a bit more than finding new ways to fit more transistors on future devices. …
Intel’s Component Keys for Pushing Moore’s Law was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Fannie Mae Moves More Mission-Critical Mortgage Work to AWS
Fannie Mae is one of the largest financial institutions in the world with $4.2 trillion in mortgage volume. …
Fannie Mae Moves More Mission-Critical Mortgage Work to AWS was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.