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Intel Xeon 6 With P-Cores Makes the Case For The Host CPU

PARTNER CONTENT  Since OpenAI first released ChatGPT into the world two years ago, generative AI has been a playground mostly for GPUs and primarily those from Nvidia, even though graphics chips from others and AI-focused silicon have tried to make their way in. …

Intel Xeon 6 With P-Cores Makes the Case For The Host CPU was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Microsoft Is First To Get HBM-Juiced AMD CPUs

Intel was the first of the major CPU makers to add HBM stacked DRAM memory to a CPU package, with the “Sapphire Rapids” Max Series Xeon 5 processors, but with the “Granite Rapids” Xeon 6, Intel abandoned the use of HBM memory in favor of what it would hope would be more main stream MCR DDR5 main memory, which has multiplexed ranks to boost bandwidth by nearly 2X over regular DDR5 memory. …

Microsoft Is First To Get HBM-Juiced AMD CPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

AMD Now Has More Compute On The Top500 Than Nvidia

There has been a lot more churn on the November Top500 supercomputer rankings that is the talk of the SC24 conference in Atlanta this week than there was in the list that came out in June at the ISC24 conference in Hamburg, Germany back in May, and there are some interesting developments in the new machinery that is being installed. …

AMD Now Has More Compute On The Top500 Than Nvidia was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Sandia To Push Both HPC And AI With Cerebras “Kingfisher” Cluster

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and Los Alamos National Laboratory are known by the shorthand “Tri-Labs” in the HPC community, but these HPC centers perhaps could be called “Try-Labs” because they historically have tried just about any new architecture to see what promise it might hold in advancing the missions of the US Department of Energy. …

Sandia To Push Both HPC And AI With Cerebras “Kingfisher” Cluster was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Custom Arm CPUs Drive Many Different AI Approaches In The Datacenter

Sponsored Feature  Arm is starting to fulfill its promise of transforming the nature of compute in the datacenter, and it is getting some big help from traditional chip makers as well as the hyperscalers and cloud builders that have massive computing requirements and who also need to drive efficiency up and costs down each and every year. …

Custom Arm CPUs Drive Many Different AI Approaches In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

You Are Paying The Clouds To Build Better AI Than They Will Rent You

Think of it as the ultimate offload model.

One of the geniuses of the cloud – perhaps the central genius – is that a big company that would have a large IT budget, perhaps on the order of hundreds of millions of dollars per year, and that has a certain amount of expertise creates a much, much larger IT organization with billions of dollars – and with AI now tens of billions of dollars – in investments and rents out the vast majority of that capacity to third parties, who essentially allow that original cloud builder to get their own IT operations for close to free. …

You Are Paying The Clouds To Build Better AI Than They Will Rent You was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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