Debunking Datacenter Compute Myths, Part Two

Welcome to the second part of our Debunking Datacenter Compute Myths series. …

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Micas Takes On Arista And The Whiteboxes In Datacenter Switching

The rise of the merchant silicon suppliers for datacenter networking and routing, which was spearheaded by Broadcom with chips and Arista Networks with switches, was not a foregone conclusion. …

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Debunking Datacenter Compute Myths, Part One

There has always been a certain amount of fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IT vendors sow as they try to protect their positions in markets that they participate in. …

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Everyone Is Chasing What Nvidia Already Has

Transitions in the datacenter take time.

It took Unix servers a decade, from 1985 through 1995, to supplant proprietary minicomputers and a lot of mainframe capacity that would have otherwise been bought. …

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Nvidia Picks Up The Pace For Datacenter Roadmaps

Heaven forbid that we take a few days of downtime. When we were not looking – and forcing ourselves to not look at any IT news because we have other things going on – that is the moment when Nvidia decides to put out a financial presentation that embeds a new product roadmap within it. …

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OpenAI To Join The Custom AI Chip Club?

It would hard to find something that is growing faster than the Nvidia datacenter business, but there is one contender: OpenAI. …

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Details Emerge On Europe’s First Exascale Supercomputer

Some details are emerging on Europe’s first exascale system, codenamed “Jupiter” and to be installed at the Jülich Supercomputing Center in Germany in 2024. …

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Intel To Set Its FPGA Unit Free To Pursue Its Own Path

Maybe Intel chief executive officer Pat Gelsinger has spent too much time at EMC and VMware. …

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The AI Boom Props Up Datacenter Infrastructure Spending

If there is one thing that is absolutely immune from inflationary curbs and that is, to a certain degree, also contributing to inflationary pressures in the global economy, it is generative AI. …

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The First Peeks At The DOE Post-Exascale Supercomputers

Other than Hewlett Packard Enterprise, who wants to build the future NERSC-10 supercomputer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory or the future OLCF-6 system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory? …

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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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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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AI Means Re-Architecting The Datacenter Network

There are a lot of pressures on the datacenter network these days just to deal with expanding data and the increasing use of microservices architectures for modern applications. …

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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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The Least Crazy And Least Mean GenAI Model Will Win

It takes big money as well as big ideas to compete in the generative AI space. …

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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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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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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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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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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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