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More Power – And Cooling – To You
Just below the massive hyperscalers and cloud builders there is another set of dozens of datacenter operators who provide cloud and co-location services on a multinational basis to enterprises, governments, and academic institutions. …
More Power – And Cooling – To You was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Balancing Act Of HPE’s Systems Business
There is perhaps no better logo for Hewlett Packard Enterprise than the box. …
The Balancing Act Of HPE’s Systems Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
MGX: Nvidia Standardizes Multi-Generation Server Designs
Whenever a compute engine maker also does motherboards as well as system designs, those companies that make motherboards (there are dozens who do) and create system designs (the original design manufacturers and the original – get a little bit nervous as well as a bit relieved. …
MGX: Nvidia Standardizes Multi-Generation Server Designs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Nvidia’s Grace-Hopper Hybrid Systems Bring Huge Memory To Bear
If you were hoping to get your hands on one of Nvidia’s “Grace” Arm-based CPUs, then you better be prepared to buy a pretty big machine. …
Nvidia’s Grace-Hopper Hybrid Systems Bring Huge Memory To Bear was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Isambard 3 To Put Nvidia’s “Grace” CPU Through The HPC Paces
Not all important supercomputers are on the twice-a-year Top500 rankings of machines. …
Isambard 3 To Put Nvidia’s “Grace” CPU Through The HPC Paces was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Nvidia Hints At Upcoming AI-Focused Spectrum-4 Ethernet
It is no surprise at all that Nvidia’s datacenter business is making money hang over fist right now as generative AI makes machine learning a household word and is giving us something akin to a Dot Com Boom in the glass houses of the world. …
Nvidia Hints At Upcoming AI-Focused Spectrum-4 Ethernet was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Aurora Rising: A Massive Machine For HPC And AI
As long as great science gets done on the final incarnation of the “Aurora” supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory, based on Intel’s CPUs and GPUs but not on its now defunct Omni-Path interconnect, people will eventually forget all of – well, most of – the grief that it took to get the massive machine to market. …
Aurora Rising: A Massive Machine For HPC And AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
How AI Is Going To Change Supercomputer Rankings Even More
The interesting thing about the June 2023 rankings of the world’s most powerful supercomputers is not how it really has not changed all that much in the past six months, or that the June list is coming out in May. …
How AI Is Going To Change Supercomputer Rankings Even More was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Meta Platforms Crafts Homegrown AI Inference Chip, AI Training Next
As we pointed out a year ago when some key silicon experts were hired from Intel and Broadcom to come work for Meta Platforms, the company formerly known as Facebook was always the most obvious place to do custom silicon. …
Meta Platforms Crafts Homegrown AI Inference Chip, AI Training Next was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Ampere Gets Out In Front Of X86 With 192-Core “Siryn” AmpereOne
The largest clouds will always have to buy X86 processors from Intel or AMD so long as the enterprises of the world – and the governments and educational institutions who also consume a fair number of servers – have X86 applications that are not easily ported to Arm or RISC-V architectures. …
Ampere Gets Out In Front Of X86 With 192-Core “Siryn” AmpereOne was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
India Declares CPU Independence With Aum HPC Processor
At the moment, the most powerful Arm processor on the planet is the 48-core A64FX processor from Fujitsu, which was created as the heavily vectored compute engine for the “Fugaku” supercomputer at RIKEN Lab in Japan. …
India Declares CPU Independence With Aum HPC Processor was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
With Project Beacon, Nutanix Opens Up And Reins In Cloud Infrastructure
Here is a question for you. Which is more proprietary? The Nutanix hyperconverged compute, storage, and networking platform or a cloud like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure? …
With Project Beacon, Nutanix Opens Up And Reins In Cloud Infrastructure was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Future Of AI Training Demands Optical Interconnects
Artificial intelligence has taken the datacenter by storm, and it is forcing companies to rethink the balance between compute, storage, and networking. …
The Future Of AI Training Demands Optical Interconnects was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
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.