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When Immersion Cooling is the Only Option
With only one, perhaps two, percent share of the broader datacenter cooling market, immersion and direct liquid cooling are still fringe technologies. …
When Immersion Cooling is the Only Option was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Netflix Boosts Streaming While Reducing Socket Counts
With over 200 million users streaming its video services, the backend CDN servers, storage, and networks at Netflix have to balance performance and efficiency carefully. …
Netflix Boosts Streaming While Reducing Socket Counts was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
A First Look at Intel’s Next-Level Neuromorphic Engine
Intel is still placing bets on neuromorphic computing with its Loihi devices. …
A First Look at Intel’s Next-Level Neuromorphic Engine was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
A Status Check on Global Exascale Ambitions
As we head toward the annual Supercomputing Conference season we wanted to take a moment for a level-set on exascale. …
A Status Check on Global Exascale Ambitions was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Europe Inches Closer to Native RISC-V Reality
The European Processor Initiative (EPI) has pinned its hopes on RISC-V as the path to European semiconductor independence. …
Europe Inches Closer to Native RISC-V Reality was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Mixed Results With A64X Port for Seismic HPC
Seismic processing cloud infrastructure provider, DUG, has enough combined compute power to grace the leading ten systems on the Top 500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, with around 30 petaflops for seismic processing, full waveform inversion, petrophysics, and other HPC applications in oil and gas via many of its own software packages. …
Mixed Results With A64X Port for Seismic HPC was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Despite Disruptions, Oil and Gas HPC Market Steadfast
The last several years have been challenging for the oil and gas industry on nearly all fronts. …
Despite Disruptions, Oil and Gas HPC Market Steadfast was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Why Amazon Might Become the Largest Quantum Consumer
These are still early days for quantum computing, far too soon to talk about domain-specific quantum systems. …
Why Amazon Might Become the Largest Quantum Consumer was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
AWS EC2 Pioneer on Early Days, Next Wave
Dave Brown remembers when Amazon executives would pop into their small office in Cape Town, populated by the entire EC2 team of fourteen, and tell them they would be working for a billion-dollar business one day. …
AWS EC2 Pioneer on Early Days, Next Wave was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Data Reduction is the Next IT Frontier
“Ingest it all, keep everything, find that needle in the haystack,” they exclaimed. …
Data Reduction is the Next IT Frontier was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Ventana Sees Window for Robust RISC-V Server Business
The field is littered with the remnants of Arm and RISC-V server startups. …
Ventana Sees Window for Robust RISC-V Server Business was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
NSA Makes Another Cloud Jump with $2 Billion HPE Deal
Perhaps the National Security Agency (NSA) in the U.S. is over procuring and maintaining some of its on-prem supercomputers. …
NSA Makes Another Cloud Jump with $2 Billion HPE Deal was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The Graph Neural Network Behind Your ETA
Expect to hear increasing buzz around graph neural network use cases among hyperscalers in the coming year. …
The Graph Neural Network Behind Your ETA was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Amazon AI Weighs Optimization Options for GNNs
Many of the largest retailers and social networks are seeing a narrowing path for scaling of AI training capabilities. …
Amazon AI Weighs Optimization Options for GNNs was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The AI Training Chip Tencent Has an Eye On
It is not news that China wants a rich, native, diverse semiconductor ecosystem to feed its largest consumers of compute. …
The AI Training Chip Tencent Has an Eye On was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
ML Training Growing Pains at Facebook
Facebook has to keep digging into ever-lower levels of its architecture to efficiently make use of endlessly growing training data. …
ML Training Growing Pains at Facebook was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Argonne Deploying GPU-Dense Testbed Supercomputer
If not for delays, the long-awaited Aurora supercomputer at Argonne National Lab would likely just be coming online. …
Argonne Deploying GPU-Dense Testbed Supercomputer was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Cerebras Shifts Architecture to Meet Massive AI/ML Models
What is that famous maxim in computer science about something that doubles on a regular cadence? …
Cerebras Shifts Architecture to Meet Massive AI/ML Models was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
More Proof Points for Low Precision HPC
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.
With AMX, Intel Adds AI/ML Sparkle to Sapphire Rapids
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.