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Enfabrica Converges Extended Memory And I/O Down To One Chip
Disaggregation means a lot of things, but the one thing that it most certainly does not mean is that every little thing in a system necessarily has to be smashed apart and then put back together in a composable ways. …
Enfabrica Converges Extended Memory And I/O Down To One Chip was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Is This The End Of The Line For NEC Vector Supercomputers?
There is some chatter – some might call it well-informed speculation – going on out there on the Intertubes that Japanese system maker NEC is shutting down its “Aurora” Vector Engine vector processor business. …
Is This The End Of The Line For NEC Vector Supercomputers? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
More Power To You – Energy Efficiently
Every year, a fairly large portion of the several tens of millions of servers running in the world needs to be replaced because the cost of using the old machinery can be higher than buying in the new machinery – and this can be true even if the old kit is entirely paid for and completely depreciated. …
More Power To You – Energy Efficiently was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Nvidia’s Four Workhorses Of The AI Inference Revolution
Last May, after we had done a deep dive on the “Hopper” H100 GPU accelerator architecture and as we were trying to reckon what Nvidia could charge for the PCI-Express and SXM5 variants of the GH100, we said that Nvidia needed to launch a Hopper-Hopper superchip. …
Nvidia’s Four Workhorses Of The AI Inference Revolution was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Inside The Infrastructure That Microsoft Builds To Run AI
Like the rest of the world, we have been watching Microsoft’s increasing use of foundation models as it transforms its services and software. …
Inside The Infrastructure That Microsoft Builds To Run AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Fujitsu To Fork Arm Server Chip Line To Chase Clouds
When it comes to chips, there is a big difference between a kicker and a fork. …
Fujitsu To Fork Arm Server Chip Line To Chase Clouds was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
DOE Wants A Hub And Spoke System Of HPC Systems
We talk about scale a lot here at The Next Platform, but there are many different aspects to this beyond lashing a bunch of nodes together and counting aggregate peak flops. …
DOE Wants A Hub And Spoke System Of HPC Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A Bumper Crop Of Ethernet Switches Harvested In Q4
With each passing year, the phrase “The network is the computer,” coined in 1984 by John Gage, director of research and co-founder of Sun Microsystems, becomes more and more true. …
A Bumper Crop Of Ethernet Switches Harvested In Q4 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Hashi Stack To Break $1 Billion, With Profits, In Two Years
About half as much. This is the pattern we have been seeing as many growing tech companies close out their 2022 or fiscal 2023 years and look ahead to their 2023 or fiscal 2024 years. …
Hashi Stack To Break $1 Billion, With Profits, In Two Years was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Tough Climb To Profitability For MongoDB
There is something weird about storage companies that were started around the same time as the Great Recession. …
The Tough Climb To Profitability For MongoDB was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Software Eats The World, And AI Eats Software
We know, as you do, that artificial intelligence is driving a lot of spending at IT organizations and is probably the fundamental driver of spending by the hyperscalers and cloud builders that have, thus far, benefitted most from the machine learning revolution. …
Software Eats The World, And AI Eats Software was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Setting The Stage For 1.6T Ethernet, And Driving 800G Now
Marvell has had a large and profitable I/O and networking silicon business for a long time, but with the acquisitions of Inphi in October 2020 and of Innovium in August 2021, the company is building a credible networking stack that can take on Broadcom, Cisco Systems, and Nvidia for the $1.3 billion or so in switch chips sold into the datacenter each year, which is growing at about 15 percent a year to more than $2 billion by 2026. …
Setting The Stage For 1.6T Ethernet, And Driving 800G Now was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Intel Pushes Out Hybrid CPU-GPU Compute Beyond 2025
One of the reasons why Intel can even think about entering the GPU compute space is that the IT market, and indeed just about any market we can think of, likes to have at least three competitors. …
Intel Pushes Out Hybrid CPU-GPU Compute Beyond 2025 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Datacenter System Makers Leary But Not Weary
The central banks of the world, led by the European Central Bank and the US Federal Reserve, want to curb inflation and they are willing to cause a small recession or at least get very close to one to shock us all into controlling the acquisitive habits we developed during the lockdowns of the early years of the coronavirus pandemic. …
Datacenter System Makers Leary But Not Weary was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Flash To Kill Disk In The Datacenter – And This Time, For Good
The days of the disk drive have been numbered for so long that it is hard to take any prediction of its demise seriously. …
Flash To Kill Disk In The Datacenter – And This Time, For Good was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Move Over ChatGPT, Meta Platforms LLaMA Makes Some Drama
Large language models, also known as AI foundation models and part of a broader category of AI transformer models, have been growing at an exponential pace in terms of the number of parameters they can process and the amount of compute and memory bandwidth capacity they require. …
Move Over ChatGPT, Meta Platforms LLaMA Makes Some Drama was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Japan Buys Supercomputer Just To Predict Torrential Downpours
You know that climate change is a problem when a supercomputer to do short-term prediction of the formation of linear rainbands and the torrential downpours that they cause is 3.4X as powerful as the machines that do the day-to-day weather forecasting in a country. …
Japan Buys Supercomputer Just To Predict Torrential Downpours was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Amazon Opens Up Solver At The Heart Of Quantum Chip Effort
Online retailing giant Amazon has so many “traveling salesman optimization” NP hard problems is it crazy. …
Amazon Opens Up Solver At The Heart Of Quantum Chip Effort was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Nvidia To Build DGX Complexes In Clouds To Better Capitalize On Generative AI
GPU computing platform maker Nvidia announced its financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter ended in January, which showed the same digestion of already acquired capacity by the hyperscalers and cloud builders and the same hesitation to spend by enterprises that other compute engine makers for datacenter computing are also seeing. …
Nvidia To Build DGX Complexes In Clouds To Better Capitalize On Generative AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Inflation Up, Economy Jittery, And IT Spending Consequentially Slows
The increasing cost of goods and services is making everyone a little crazy, and corporate IT departments are not immune from the effects of the dual concerns of rising inflation and the desire by central banks to use interest rates to curb our economic enthusiasm and slow that inflation to a much more sane level. …
Inflation Up, Economy Jittery, And IT Spending Consequentially Slows was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.