Copper Wires Have Already Failed Clustered AI Systems

It has become a well known fact these days that the switches that are used to interconnect distributed systems are not the most expensive part of that network, but rather it is the optical transceivers and fiber optic cables that comprise the bulk of the cost. …

Copper Wires Have Already Failed Clustered AI Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The Difficulty – And Necessity – Of Parsing Out AI Spending

For a decade before the generative AI boom took off in late 2022, classical artificial intelligence, used for all kinds of self-learning predictive algorithms, was destined to be a very large component of the IT stack at most organizations in the world. …

The Difficulty – And Necessity – Of Parsing Out AI Spending was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Green Acres Is The Place For Larry

Some people are obsessed by crowd sizes, others by their net worth, and still others by the size of their AI datacenters. …

Green Acres Is The Place For Larry was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The Battle Begins For AI Inference Compute In The Datacenter

The major cloud builders and their hyperscaler brethren – in many cases, one company acts like both a cloud and a hyperscaler – have made their technology choices when it comes to deploying AI training platforms. …

The Battle Begins For AI Inference Compute In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Where Retail Meets The Intelligent Edge, Great Things Are Happening

PARTNER CONTENT: Most retailers are saddled with aging, heterogeneous IT environments spread across wide geographical areas, making it difficult to adopt the latest and greatest advancements of the data-driven, artificial intelligence (AI) age. …

Where Retail Meets The Intelligent Edge, Great Things Are Happening was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

AWS Adds Managed Slurm To ParallelCluster Cloudy Supercomputers

It is hard to believe that Amazon Web Services has been selling compute, storage, and networking capacity for nearly two decades. …

AWS Adds Managed Slurm To ParallelCluster Cloudy Supercomputers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

NOAA Gets $100 Million Windfall For “Rhea” Research Supercomputer

All of the weather and climate simulation centers on Earth are trying to figure out how to use a mixture of traditional HPC simulation and modeling with various kinds of AI prediction to create forecasts for both near-term weather and long-term climate that have higher fidelity and go out further into the future. …

NOAA Gets $100 Million Windfall For “Rhea” Research Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Profiting From The GenAI Boom Is Tough Even If It Democratizes

Wall Street might have unreasonable expectations about how OEMs and ODMs can profit from the GenAI boom through selling GPU laden systems. …

Profiting From The GenAI Boom Is Tough Even If It Democratizes was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Cloud HPC Is The ‘SilverLining’ in Global Warming Mitigation

PARTNER CONTENT  Scientists say the global climate crisis is continuing to intensify, and managing the situation requires increasingly innovative solutions. …

Cloud HPC Is The ‘SilverLining’ in Global Warming Mitigation was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

TACC Fires Up “Vista” Bridge To Future “Horizon” Supercomputer

The Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Austin is the flagship datacenter for supercomputing for the US National Science Foundation, and so what TACC does – and doesn’t do – is a kind of bellwether for academic supercomputing. …

TACC Fires Up “Vista” Bridge To Future “Horizon” Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The First AI Benchmarks Pitting AMD Against Nvidia

Rated horsepower for a compute engine is an interesting intellectual exercise, but it is where the rubber hits the road that really matters. …

The First AI Benchmarks Pitting AMD Against Nvidia was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Dell’s AI Server Business Now Bigger Than VMware Used To Be

We have been watching the big original equipment manufactures like a hawk to see how they are generating revenues and income from GPU-accelerated system sales. …

Dell’s AI Server Business Now Bigger Than VMware Used To Be was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Reduce Manual Effort, Achieve Better Coverage With AI And Formal Techniques

PARTNER CONTENT  Given the size and complexity of modern semiconductor designs, functional verification has become a dominant phase in the development cycle. …

Reduce Manual Effort, Achieve Better Coverage With AI And Formal Techniques was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Nvidia Says “Blackwell” GPU Issues Are Fixed, Ramp Starts In Fiscal Q4

Welcome to the most important earnings call in history, with the weight of the aggregate stock markets of the entire world hanging on what Nvidia says and doesn’t say. …

Nvidia Says “Blackwell” GPU Issues Are Fixed, Ramp Starts In Fiscal Q4 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Interview: Post-Earnings Insight With Nvidia CFO Colette Kress

After Wall Street closed the markets for the day and Nvidia reported its financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2025, we had the opportunity to chat with Colette Kress, chief financial officer of the accelerated computing giant. …

Interview: Post-Earnings Insight With Nvidia CFO Colette Kress was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

IBM Shows Off Next-Gen AI Acceleration, On Chip DPU For Big Iron

Big Blue might be a little late to the AI acceleration game, but it has a captive audience in its System z mainframe and Power Systems servers. …

IBM Shows Off Next-Gen AI Acceleration, On Chip DPU For Big Iron was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Get Your Data House In Order To Unlock Your Generative AI Strategy

COMMISSIONED  Organizations must consider many things before deploying generative AI services, from choosing models and tech stacks to selecting relevant use cases. …

Get Your Data House In Order To Unlock Your Generative AI Strategy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Bechtolsheim Outlines Scaling XPU Performance By 100X By 2028

Effects are multiplicative, not additive, when it comes to increasing compute engine performance. …

Bechtolsheim Outlines Scaling XPU Performance By 100X By 2028 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

This AI Network Has No Spine – And That’s A Good Thing

When you are designing applications that run across the scale of an entire datacenter and that are comprised of hundreds to thousands of microservices running on countless individual servers and that have to be called within a matter of microseconds to give the illusion of a monolithic application, building fully connected, high bi-section bandwidth Clos networks is a must. …

This AI Network Has No Spine – And That’s A Good Thing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

When You’re Building The Future, The Past Is No Longer A Guide

A complex world demands complex systems.

Designing and improving new industrial systems, semiconductors, or vehicles, whether earth or space bound, presents massive engineering and manufacturing challenges. …

When You’re Building The Future, The Past Is No Longer A Guide was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.