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Azure Can’t Make Up For On Premise Profit Decline At Microsoft
If you think it might be difficult to sell companies general purpose servers when they are frenzied about GenAI and trying to figure out how to get GPU-accelerated systems, you ought to try to convince the same companies to upgrade to Windows Server 2025, which launched last November. …
Azure Can’t Make Up For On Premise Profit Decline At Microsoft was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
How Did DeepSeek Train Its AI Model On A Lot Less – And Crippled – Hardware?
Maybe they should have called it DeepFake, or DeepState, or better still Deep Selloff. …
How Did DeepSeek Train Its AI Model On A Lot Less – And Crippled – Hardware? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Brad McCredie Is The Pedal To AMD’s Datacenter GPU Metal
Brad McCredie like engines, and more importantly, he likes to make them go fast. …
Brad McCredie Is The Pedal To AMD’s Datacenter GPU Metal was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
GenAI Boom: Datacenter Spending Forecast Raised Again
Economic and technical forces have a kind of momentum that keeps them growing even as any new technology goes through its inevitable hype cycle from innovation to inflated expectations to disillusionment to deployment into productivity. …
GenAI Boom: Datacenter Spending Forecast Raised Again was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
How Enterprise AI Can Ease The Data Gravity Burden
COMMISSIONED: Among the many tough decisions IT leaders face is where to best host AI workloads. …
How Enterprise AI Can Ease The Data Gravity Burden was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
OpenAI Declares Its Hardware Independence (Sort Of) With Stargate Project
The dependency dance between AI pioneer OpenAI and the Microsoft Azure cloud and the application software divisions of its parent company are fascinating to watch. …
OpenAI Declares Its Hardware Independence (Sort Of) With Stargate Project was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
HLRS Takes First Steps To Exascale
The University of Stuttgart’s High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) in Germany tapped Hewlett Packard Enterprise back in December 2023 to build a prototype hybrid CPU-GPU supercomputer nicknamed “Hunter” to pave the way towards an exascale-class machine it is budgeting to have installed in 2027 called “Herder.” …
HLRS Takes First Steps To Exascale was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
TSMC Can’t Be Caught Or Bought, Only Sought Or Stolen
It is not hard to figure out who is in the catbird seat in the semiconductor foundry business. …
TSMC Can’t Be Caught Or Bought, Only Sought Or Stolen was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Can Synthetic Data Help Us Scale AI’s Data Wall?
COMMISSIONED: As with any emerging technology, implementing generative AI large language models (LLMs) isn’t easy and it’s totally fair to look side-eyed at anyone who suggests otherwise. …
Can Synthetic Data Help Us Scale AI’s Data Wall? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It’s January: Datacenter Compute Rumors And Moves
As one year ends and another begins, this is often the time when people change jobs and companies change strategies. …
It’s January: Datacenter Compute Rumors And Moves was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Unstable Diffusion: Artificial Intelligence Meets Military Intelligence
Perhaps no document has ever had a more appropriate title than the “Interim Final Rule on Artificial Intelligence Diffusion” announced by the Biden Administration and the US Department of Commerce today. …
Unstable Diffusion: Artificial Intelligence Meets Military Intelligence was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Oracle Revs Up Exadata Database Machines To X11M
Transaction processing against relational databases may not be the focus of the datacenter, as it was when IBM created the first relational database and Oracle was founded to compete against it in the late 1970s. …
Oracle Revs Up Exadata Database Machines To X11M was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Scaling Retrieval Augmented Generation With RAGOps And Agents
COMMISSIONED: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become the gold standard for helping businesses refine their large language model (LLM) results with corporate data. …
Scaling Retrieval Augmented Generation With RAGOps And Agents was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Future Is The One We Generate
If you want to be at the top of the food chain on Earth, as human beings have ascended to after millions of years of evolution, there are a bunch of things that you need to be able to do. …
The Future Is The One We Generate was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Ethernet Switching Still In Recession Thanks To AI Shift
The original design manufacturers, or ODMs, as well as the portions of the original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs, that act like ODMs in that they create custom machines for hyperscalers and cloud builders and sell that at high volume and low margin, have long since taken over the server market. …
Ethernet Switching Still In Recession Thanks To AI Shift was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Micron Is Fashionably Late To The HBM Party, But Not Too Late
Here is what memory bandwidth and a certain amount of capacity is worth in the GenAI revolution. …
Micron Is Fashionably Late To The HBM Party, But Not Too Late was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Cloud Spending Forecast Trimmed For This Year And Next
The market for cloud infrastructure is now so large that it is very difficult for it to change drastically. …
Cloud Spending Forecast Trimmed For This Year And Next was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
From Black Friday To Christmas Eve: The Data-Driven Holiday Hustle
COMMISSIONED AI and advanced storage systems ensure a smooth and profitable winter shopping season, so retailers don’t miss a beat during the holiday rush. …
From Black Friday To Christmas Eve: The Data-Driven Holiday Hustle was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Databricks Is Going To Be The Next Platform For Many Enterprises
The hyperscalers, cloud builders, HPC centers control the design and manufacturing of own AI infrastructure. …
Databricks Is Going To Be The Next Platform For Many Enterprises was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
LRZ Adopts Nvidia Engines For €250 Million “Blue Lion” Supercomputer In 2027
The expansion of the computing capacity in Europe for both traditional HPC simulation as well as AI training and modeling continues apace, with the Leibniz-Rechenzentrum lab in Germany announcing late last week (when we took a day of holiday) that it would be shelling out €250 million – about $262.7 million at current exchange rates – to build a hybrid CPU-GPU cluster based on Nvidia compute engines to tackle both kinds of high performance computing. …
LRZ Adopts Nvidia Engines For €250 Million “Blue Lion” Supercomputer In 2027 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.