Chip Packaging Trumps EDA: Why Synopsys Is Paying $35 Billion For Ansys

Here is how you know that the way chiplets are linked together to create what might have otherwise been a monolithic device is now more important than the way that the chiplets themselves are designed. …

Chip Packaging Trumps EDA: Why Synopsys Is Paying $35 Billion For Ansys was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Locking Down The Edge

COMMISSIONED: Edge security is a growing headache. The attack surface is expanding as more operational functions migrate out of centralized locations and into distributed sites and devices. …

Locking Down The Edge was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

No More Roach Motels For Data In The Clouds

The central tenets of cloud computing, which really ought to be called utility computing, is that you only pay for what you use and that you can turn compute, storage, and networking off when you are not actually using, thus freeing up capacity for those who need it. …

No More Roach Motels For Data In The Clouds was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The Datacenter GPU Gravy Train That No One Will Derail

We have five decades of very fine-grained analysis of CPU compute engines in the datacenter, and changes come at a steady but glacial pace when it comes to CPU serving. …

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Why Would HPE Buy Juniper Networks?

It looks like Hewlett Packard Enterprise might be having a datacenter networking revival. …

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Why Would HPE Buy Juniper Networks? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The Future We Simulate Is The One We Create

Investment in supercomputing and related HPC technologies is not just a sign of how much we are willing to bet on the future with someone else’s money, but how much we believe in it ourselves, and more importantly, how much we believe in the core idea that we can predict and therefore shape the future of the world. …

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The Future We Simulate Is The One We Create was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

With “Big Chip,” China Lays Out Aspirations For Waferscale

The end of Moore’s Law – the real Moore’s Law where transistors get cheaper and faster with every process shrink – is making chip makers crazy. …

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With “Big Chip,” China Lays Out Aspirations For Waferscale was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Ethernet Switching Bucks The Server Recession Trend

You might be thinking that with all of the investment in AI systems these days that the boom in InfiniBand interconnect sales would be eating into sales of high-end Ethernet interconnects in the datacenter. …

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Great Accelerations: Just How Much Will We Spend On GenAI Again?

Ever since the launch of the “Antares” MI300X and MI300A compute engines by AMD back in early December, we have been mulling over the spending forecasts for AI spending in general and for infrastructure and accelerators more specifically. …

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Building A Hassle-Free Way To Port CUDA Code To AMD GPUs

Emulation is not just the sincerest form of flattery. It is also how you jump start the adoption of a new compute engine or move an entire software stack from one platform to another with a different architecture. …

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Building A Hassle-Free Way To Port CUDA Code To AMD GPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

University Of Stuttgart Spends €115M To Go Exascale

The University of Stuttgart’s High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) in Germany has tapped Hewlett Packard Enterprise to build a pair of its next-generation supercomputers. …

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Datacenter Infrastructure Report Card, Q3 2023

It is hard to keep a model of datacenter infrastructure spending in your head at the same time you want to look at trends in cloud and on-premises spending as well as keep score among the key IT suppliers to figure out who is winning and who is losing. …

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Datacenter Infrastructure Report Card, Q3 2023 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Intel “Emerald Rapids” Xeon SPs: A Little More Bang, A Little Less Bucks

With each successive Intel Xeon SP server processor launch, we can’t help but think the same thing: it would have been better for Intel and customers alike if this chip was out the door a year ago, or two years ago, as must have been planned. …

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Intel “Emerald Rapids” Xeon SPs: A Little More Bang, A Little Less Bucks was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The Vast Potential For Storage In A Compute Crazed AI World

When it comes to funding rounds for high tech companies, the alphabet usually runs out somewhere around Series E. …

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Dell, Lenovo Also Waiting For Their AI Server Waves

If the original equipment manufacturers of the world had software massive software divisions – like many of them tried to do a two decades ago as they tried to emulate IBM and then changed their minds a decade ago when they sold off their software and services businesses and pared down to pushing tin and iron – then maybe they might have been on the front edge of AI software development and maybe they would have been closer to the front of the line for GPU allocations from Nvidia and AMD. …

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Dell, Lenovo Also Waiting For Their AI Server Waves was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The Tidal Wave Of Rising GPU TAM Raises All Boats

The world has gone nuts for generative AI, and it is going to get a whole lot crazier. …

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AMD Is The Undisputed Datacenter GPU Performance Champ – For Now

There is nothing quite like great hardware to motivate people to create and tune software to take full advantage of it during a boom time. …

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How AWS Can Undercut Nvidia With Homegrown AI Compute Engines

Amazon Web Services may not be the first of the hyperscalers and cloud builders to create its own custom compute engines, but it has been hot on the heels of Google, which started using its homegrown TPU accelerators for AI workloads in 2015. …

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How AWS Can Undercut Nvidia With Homegrown AI Compute Engines was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

If You Want To Sell AI To Enterprises, You Need To Sell Ethernet

Server makers Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Lenovo, who are the three largest original manufacturers of systems in the world, ranked in that order, are adding to the spectrum of interconnects they offer to their enterprise customers. …

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If You Want To Sell AI To Enterprises, You Need To Sell Ethernet was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

With HPC Humming Along, HPE Awaits Its AI Boom

The ProLiant server business is down in the dumps, and the storage business is in a slump. …

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With HPC Humming Along, HPE Awaits Its AI Boom was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.