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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.
The Most Complex Chip Ever Made?
Historically Intel put all its cumulative chip knowledge to work advancing Moore’s Law and applying those learnings to its future CPUs. …
The Most Complex Chip Ever Made? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Cloud Spending Curtailed, On Premises Spending Heading Into Recession
The central bankers of the world want to curb inflation by putting a serious crimp in demand, and it looks like they may get what they want – sort of – in 2023 when it comes to datacenter infrastructure. …
Cloud Spending Curtailed, On Premises Spending Heading Into Recession was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A Peek Into The Future Of AI Inference At Nvidia
The best kinds of research are those that test new ideas and that also lead to practical innovations in real products. …
A Peek Into The Future Of AI Inference At Nvidia was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Finally: Some Good News For The Intel Xeon CPU Roadmap
It was a reasonable enough gut reaction given the many changes happening at Intel in recent months. …
Finally: Some Good News For The Intel Xeon CPU Roadmap was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Cerebras Smashes AI Wide Open, Countering Hypocrites
We could have a long, thoughtful, and important conversation about the way AI is transforming the world. …
Cerebras Smashes AI Wide Open, Countering Hypocrites was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
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.