From RAG To Fine-Tuning, Data Management Enriches AI Results

COMMISSIONED: As an IT leader, you know that data management is one of the critical ingredients for cultivating successful AI initiatives. …

From RAG To Fine-Tuning, Data Management Enriches AI Results was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Marvell Pivots To AI Silicon, Looks Poised To Profit

It is hard to bet against the GenAI boom, and thus far it is also hard for anyone other than Nvidia to profit from it. …

Marvell Pivots To AI Silicon, Looks Poised To Profit was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

AWS Reaps The Benefits Of The Custom Silicon It Has Sown

When the hyperscalers and cloud builders were smaller and the Arm collective had failed to storm the datacenter and AMD was not yet on its path to resurgence, it was Intel that controlled the cadence of new compute engine introductions into the datacenter. …

AWS Reaps The Benefits Of The Custom Silicon It Has Sown was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The Champagne Bottle Of AI Supercomputers

SPONSORED FEATURE  AI is such a unique workload that it warrants its own specialized clouds. …

The Champagne Bottle Of AI Supercomputers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

With Gelsinger Gone, Who Benefits From An Intel Break Up?

Well, that was surprising.

When we sat down to work this morning, starting out the final month of the 2024 year, we did not think that we would be writing about Pat Gelsinger “retiring” from the company that he loves best and most. …

With Gelsinger Gone, Who Benefits From An Intel Break Up? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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.