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US Curbs HBM Exports To China – More For The Rest Of Us
Current US president Joe Biden and once and future president Donald Trump do not agree on much. …
US Curbs HBM Exports To China – More For The Rest Of Us was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Fat Server Spending Props Up Slowing AI Servers At Dell
Just because you are the number one supplier of servers, storage, and PCs in the world does not mean the job of building those machines and making money is easy. …
Fat Server Spending Props Up Slowing AI Servers At Dell was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
HPE Upgrades Supercomputer Lineup Top To Bottom In 2025
If you want to buy an exascale-class supercomputer, or a portion of one so you can scale up, there are not a lot of places to go shopping because there are not a lot of companies who have a balance sheet that is big enough to get all of the parts to build the machines. …
HPE Upgrades Supercomputer Lineup Top To Bottom In 2025 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
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.
Anthropic And OpenAI Show Why Musk Should Build A Cloud
If Amazon is going to make you pay for the custom AI advantage that it wants to build over rivals Google and Microsoft, then it needs to have the best models possible running on its homegrown accelerators. …
Anthropic And OpenAI Show Why Musk Should Build A Cloud 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.
Scaling The AI Frontier And Powering The Future Of Innovation
COMMISSIONED What’s holding back the next big breakthrough in AI – processing power or the infrastructure supporting it? …
Scaling The AI Frontier And Powering The Future Of Innovation was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Nvidia Datacenter Revenues Still Booming, “Blackwell” Platforms On Track
We have said it before, and we will say it again as everyone is chewing on the financial results that Nvidia just turned in for its third quarter of fiscal 2025 ended in October. …
Nvidia Datacenter Revenues Still Booming, “Blackwell” Platforms On Track was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
HPC Market Bigger Than Expected, And Growing Faster
As far as we have been concerned since founding The Next Platform literally a decade ago this week, AI training and inference in the datacenter are a kind of HPC. …
HPC Market Bigger Than Expected, And Growing Faster was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
“El Capitan” Supercomputer Blazes The Trail for Converged CPU-GPU Compute
Every couple of years, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory gets to install the world’s fastest supercomputer. …
“El Capitan” Supercomputer Blazes The Trail for Converged CPU-GPU Compute 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.
UEC Doesn’t Want To Kill InfiniBand, But It Wants Ethernet To Beat It
Welcome to the second part in our series of chats with J Metz, chair of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium. …
UEC Doesn’t Want To Kill InfiniBand, But It Wants Ethernet To Beat It was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Collaboration That Will Drive Ethernet Into The HPC And AI Future
Any time you can get a lot of companies with very technically adept and strongly opinionated people to work together on a problem, or a set of problems, then you know for a fact that there is a real problem. …
The Collaboration That Will Drive Ethernet Into The HPC And AI Future was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Server Recession Ends, And Both Intel And AMD Won
Anyone who thinks that Intel is easy to kill need look no further than the historical trends of the Mercury Research market share statistics that we see each quarter. …
The Server Recession Ends, And Both Intel And AMD Won was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AI Workloads Are Changing IT Demands At The Edge
COMMISSIONED As the AI era unfolds, I have been reflecting on my journey in the tech industry. …
AI Workloads Are Changing IT Demands At The Edge 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.
The Back End AI Network Puts Pressure On The Front End
For most of the history of high performance computing, a supercomputer was a freestanding, isolated machine that was designed to run some simulation or model and the only link it needed to the outside world was a relatively small one to show some visualization. …
The Back End AI Network Puts Pressure On The Front End was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Stop Bottlenecking Your AI: Storage Hacks for Hungry GPUs
COMMISSIONED In the fast-paced world of AI, GPUs are often hailed as the quiet powerhouse driving innovation. …
Stop Bottlenecking Your AI: Storage Hacks for Hungry GPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We Can’t Get Enough HBM, Or Stack It Up High Enough
There are lots of ways that we might build out the memory capacity and memory bandwidth of compute engines to drive AI and HPC workloads better than we have been able to do thus far. …
We Can’t Get Enough HBM, Or Stack It Up High Enough was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.