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Finally: The Roadmap To Profits For Nutanix

One of the reasons why we have been watching Nutanix since it dropped out of stealth mode in August 2011, two years after being founded, because we had a hunch that the upstart maker of a server-storage half-blood than banned the SAN from the datacenter would transform itself into a platform. …

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Finally: The Roadmap To Profits For Nutanix was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Supermicro At 30: From Designing AI Chips To Selling AI Systems

There is something about late September. Nvidia was founded 30 years ago on Tuesday this week, Google was founded 25 years ago on Wednesday, and Supermicro was founded 30 years ago today. …

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Supermicro At 30: From Designing AI Chips To Selling AI Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Meta Platforms Is Determined To Make Ethernet Work For AI

We said it from the beginning: There is no way that Meta Platforms, the originator of the Open Compute Project, wanted to buy a complete supercomputer system from Nvidia in order to advance its AI research and move newer large language models and recommendation engines into production. …

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Meta Platforms Is Determined To Make Ethernet Work For AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Intel Gets Its Chiplets In Order With 6th Gen Xeon SPs

Based on what Intel has been saying for the past several weeks in various events, but especially the Hot Chips 2023 a few weeks ago and the more recent Intel Innovation 2023 extravaganza, the company’s foundry process roadmap and its server processor roadmaps are going to align harmoniously to make the Xeon SP family of CPUs more competitive next year. …

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Intel Gets Its Chiplets In Order With 6th Gen Xeon SPs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

SambaNova Tackles Generative AI With New Chip And New Approach

If you have the entire corpus of the Internet scrubbed of nonsense plus whatever else you can scrounge up in whatever language all put into the right format so you can chew on that data one token at a time with trillions of parameters of interconnections between those tokens to build a large language model for generative AI applications, you have an enormous problem. …

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SambaNova Tackles Generative AI With New Chip And New Approach was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Intel Xeon Roadmap On Track, 288 Core “Sierra Forest” Coming Soon

Sometimes, especially with Intel in the past several years, the fact that the CPU roadmap doesn’t change is the news. …

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Intel Xeon Roadmap On Track, 288 Core “Sierra Forest” Coming Soon was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

AMD Finishes Out The Zen4 Server CPUs With Edgy “Siena”

Different workloads need different mixes of price, performance, thermals, and longevity in the field out there on the edge and in the datacenter, and that is why server CPU makers for years have had a mix of processors that deliver on these vectors that are different from each other. …

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AMD Finishes Out The Zen4 Server CPUs With Edgy “Siena” was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

China’s 1.5 Exaflops Supercomputer Chases Gordon Bell Prize – Again

The Association for Computing Machinery has just put out the finalists for the Gordon Bell Prize award that will be given out at the SC23 supercomputing conference in Denver, and as you might expect, some of the biggest iron assembled in the world are driving the advanced applications that have their eyes on the prize. …

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China’s 1.5 Exaflops Supercomputer Chases Gordon Bell Prize – Again was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Enfabrica Nabs $125 Million To Ramp Networking Godbox

For the past decade or so, we have been convinced by quite a large number of IT suppliers that security functions, network and storage virtualization functions, and even the server virtualization hypervisor for carving up compute itself should be offloaded from servers to intermediaries somewhat illogically called data processing units, or DPUs. …

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Enfabrica Nabs $125 Million To Ramp Networking Godbox was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Supply Chain Easing Creates Ethernet Switching Boom

There are a lot of things going on in the datacenter and campus interconnect markets, but one of the weirder things we observe from the most recent market data coming out of IDC about the Ethernet portion of this market is that it is like a country music record being played backwards. …

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Supply Chain Easing Creates Ethernet Switching Boom was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Other Than Nvidia, Who Will Use Arm’s Neoverse V2 Core?

We are still plowing through the many, many presentions from the Hot Interconnects, Hot Chips, Google Cloud Next, and Meta Networking @ Scale conferences that all happened recently and at essentially the same time. …

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Other Than Nvidia, Who Will Use Arm’s Neoverse V2 Core? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Optimizing AI Inference Is As Vital As Building AI Training Beasts

The history of computing teaches us that software always and necessarily lags hardware, and unfortunately that lag can stretch for many years when it comes to wringing the best performance out of iron by tweaking algorithms. …

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Optimizing AI Inference Is As Vital As Building AI Training Beasts was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Is Mojo The Fortran For AI Programming, Or More?

When Jim Keller talks about compute engines, you listen. And when Keller name drops a programming language and AI runtime environment, as he did in a recent interview with us, you do a little research and you also keep an eye out for developments. …

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Is Mojo The Fortran For AI Programming, Or More? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Just How Big – Or Small – Is The Quantum Computing Racket?

There is no question in our minds here at The Next Platform that quantum computing, in some fashion, will be part of the workflow for solving some of the peskiest computational problems the world can think of. …

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Just How Big – Or Small – Is The Quantum Computing Racket? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

HashiCorp Retools Licenses And Software To Grow Its Business

It is hard to make a living in the open source software business, although it is possible, through the contributions of many, to make great software. …

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HashiCorp Retools Licenses And Software To Grow Its Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

What Would You Do With A 16.8 Million Core Graph Processing Beast?

If you look back at it now, especially with the advent of massively parallel computing on GPUs, maybe the techies at Tera Computing and then Cray had the right idea with their “ThreadStorm” massively threaded processors and high bandwidth interconnects. …

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What Would You Do With A 16.8 Million Core Graph Processing Beast? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Dell Making The Most Of Its GPU Allocations, Like Everyone Else

In a world where Nvidia is allocating proportional shares of its GPU hotcakes to all of the OEMs and ODMs, companies like Dell, Hewlett Packard, Lenovo, and Supermicro get their shares and then they turn around and try to sell systems using them at the highest possible price. …

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Dell Making The Most Of Its GPU Allocations, Like Everyone Else was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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