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For Financial Services Firms, AI Inference Is As Challenging As Training

A decade ago, when traditional machine learning techniques were first being commercialized, training was incredibly hard and expensive, but because models were relatively small, inference – running new data through a model to cause an application to act or react – was easy. …

For Financial Services Firms, AI Inference Is As Challenging As Training was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

For Now, AI Helps IBM’s Bottom Line More Than Its Top Line

While the hyperscalers and clouds and their AI model builder customers are setting the pace in compute, networking, and storage during the GenAI revolution, that does not mean that they will necessarily provide the only systems that will be used by the largest enterprises in the world. …

For Now, AI Helps IBM’s Bottom Line More Than Its Top Line was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Broadcom Tries To Kill InfiniBand And NVSwitch With One Ethernet Stone

InfiniBand was always supposed to be a mainstream fabric to be used across PCs, servers, storage, and networks, but the effort collapsed and the remains of the InfiniBand effort found a second life at the turn of the millennium as a high performance, low latency interconnect for supercomputers running simulations and models. …

Broadcom Tries To Kill InfiniBand And NVSwitch With One Ethernet Stone was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The World’s Most Powerful Server Embiggens A Bit With Power11

If you need a big, badass box that can support tens of terabytes of memory, dozens of PCI-Express peripheral slots, thousands of directly attached storage devices, all feeding into hundreds of cores that can span that memory footprint with lots of bandwidth, you do not have a lot of options. …

The World’s Most Powerful Server Embiggens A Bit With Power11 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The Art Of The GPU Deal

Perhaps the most interesting conversation that has happened so far in the White House in 2025, at least from the point of view of the IT sector, is when Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer, Jensen Huang, put on his Sunday best suit and visited President Donald Trump to presumably talk about technology, AI, trade, and war on July 10. …

The Art Of The GPU Deal was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Brazil Lays The Hardware Foundation For Its AI Ambitions

Every major economy that is not the United States or China, which has a disproportionate share of HPC national labs as well as hyperscaler and cloud builder tech titans, wants AI sovereignty a whole lot more than they ever worried about HPC simulation and modeling. …

Brazil Lays The Hardware Foundation For Its AI Ambitions was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Sizing Up AWS “Blackwell” GPU Systems Against Prior GPUs And Trainiums

This week, Amazon Web Services announced the availability of its first UltraServer pre-configured supercomputers based on Nvidia’s “Grace” CG100 CPUs and its “Blackwell” B200 GPUs in what is called a GB200 NVL72 shared GPU memory configuration. …

Sizing Up AWS “Blackwell” GPU Systems Against Prior GPUs And Trainiums was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Will Companies Build Or Buy Their GenAI Models?

One of the biggest questions that enterprises, governments, academic institutions, and HPC centers the world over are going to have to answer very soon – if they have not made the decision already – is if they are going to train their own AI models and the inference software stacks that make them useful or just buy them from third parties and get to work integrating AI with their applications a lot faster. …

Will Companies Build Or Buy Their GenAI Models? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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