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When Push Comes To Shove, Google Invests Heavily In GPU Compute
A year ago, at its Google I/O 2022 event, Google revealed to the world that it had eight pods of TPUv4 accelerators, with a combined 32,768 of its fourth generation, homegrown matrix math accelerators, running in a machine learning hub located in its Mayes County, Oklahoma datacenter. …
When Push Comes To Shove, Google Invests Heavily In GPU Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Silicon Valley Co-Los Know What’s Really Going On With AI
If you want to get a sense of what companies are really doing with AI infrastructure, and the issues of processing and network capacity, power, and cooling that they are facing, what you need to do is talk to some co-location datacenter providers. …
The Silicon Valley Co-Los Know What’s Really Going On With AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AI Hype Will Drive Datacenter GPU Prices Sky High
Like many HPC and AI system builders, we are impatient to see what the “Antares” Instinct MI300A hybrid CPU-GPU system on chip from AMD might look like in terms of performance and price. …
AI Hype Will Drive Datacenter GPU Prices Sky High was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Missing The Moat With AI
Google is a big company with thousands of researchers and tens of thousands of software engineers, who all hold their own opinions about what AI means to the future of business and the future of their own jobs and ours. …
Missing The Moat With AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AMD Says AI Is The Number One Priority Right Now
When it comes to an economy, you get what we collectively expect. …
AMD Says AI Is The Number One Priority Right Now was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Skills Gap For Fortran Looms Large In HPC
Back in the dawn of time, which is four decades ago in computer science and which was before technical computing went mainstream with the advent of Unix workstations and their beefy server cousins, the computer science students we knew at college had taught themselves BASIC on either TRS-80s or Commodore VICs and they went to college to learn something useful like COBOL and maybe got a smattering of C and Pascal, or occasionally even RPG, for variety. …
The Skills Gap For Fortran Looms Large In HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
After The 2022 Bump, Arista Is Back To The Grind In 2023
For Arista Networks, the poster-child of hyperscaler and cloud build networking that, more than any other vendor, has championed merchant silicon and Linux as the basis of a modular network operating system, 2022 was a bumper crop year. …
After The 2022 Bump, Arista Is Back To The Grind In 2023 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Just How Big Are Nvidia’s Server And Networking Businesses?
In the absence of hard numbers, we have never been shy about making estimates because educated guesses is all you sometimes have to make a decision or to derive some kind of insight. …
Just How Big Are Nvidia’s Server And Networking Businesses? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Of Course AWS Revenues Are Slowing And Profits Are Pinched
While not perfectly elastic in the economic sense, where there is a linear relationship between price and volume, we have always contended that the relationship between the price of IT infrastructure and its cost are reasonably elastic. …
Of Course AWS Revenues Are Slowing And Profits Are Pinched was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Beginning Of The Bottom For Intel’s Datacenter Business
Intel can talk all it wants about how it beat its own expectations or those of Wall Street, but the fact remains that the first quarter of 2023 was downright ugly for the chip designer and maker. …
The Beginning Of The Bottom For Intel’s Datacenter Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Broadcom Takes On InfiniBand With Jericho3-AI Switch Chips
Variety is not only the spice of life, it is also the way to drive innovation and to mitigate risk. …
Broadcom Takes On InfiniBand With Jericho3-AI Switch Chips was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Chips Are Down For TSMC, But Not For Long
Every three years or so, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co has a personal recession. …
The Chips Are Down For TSMC, But Not For Long was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
IBM Starts Walking The Hybrid Cloud And AI Talking
If Big Blue is going to talk the hybrid cloud and AI talk, as it seems to do incessantly, then the company has to walk it. …
IBM Starts Walking The Hybrid Cloud And AI Talking was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Nuclear Weapons Drove Supercomputing, And May Now Drive It Into The Clouds
If the HPC community didn’t write the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1996, it would have been necessary to invent it. …
Nuclear Weapons Drove Supercomputing, And May Now Drive It Into The Clouds was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Berkeley Lab Opens Bidding For Future NERSC-10 Exascale System
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, one of the key facilities of the US Department of Energy that drives supercomputing innovation and that spends big bucks so at least a few vendors will design and build them, has opened up the bidding on its future NERSC-10 exascale-class supercomputer. …
Berkeley Lab Opens Bidding For Future NERSC-10 Exascale System was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Climate Simulation Screams On The Frontier Exascale Supercomputer
We will always complain about the weather. It is part of the human condition. …
Climate Simulation Screams On The Frontier Exascale Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Where Financial Models Meet Large Language Models
If you are a Global 20,000 company and you want to build a large language model that is specifically tuned to your business, the first thing you need is a corpus of your own textual data on which to train that LLM. …
Where Financial Models Meet Large Language Models was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Crazy Eights Of Large Language Models
We read a fairly large number of technical papers here at The Next Platform, and it is a rare thing indeed when we can recommend that everyone – or damned near everyone – should read a paper. …
The Crazy Eights Of Large Language Models was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Money Changes Everything For SiPearl
If you think designing a new CPU from scratch is hard, you ought to try raising money to do it. …
Money Changes Everything For SiPearl was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
RISC-V In The Datacenter Is No Risky Proposition
It was only a matter of time, perhaps, but the skyrocketing costs of designing chips is colliding with the ever-increasing need for performance, price/performance, and performance per watt. …
RISC-V In The Datacenter Is No Risky Proposition was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.