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To Exascale And (Maybe) Beyond!
The difference between “high performance computing” in the general way that many thousands of organizations run traditional simulation and modeling applications and the kind of exascale computing that is only now becoming a little more commonplace is like the difference between a single, two door coupe that goes 65 miles per hour (most of the time) and a fleet of bullet trains that can each hold over 1,300 people and move at more than 300 miles per hour, connecting a country or a continent. …
To Exascale And (Maybe) Beyond! was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Japan Gets An LLM Compliments Of Fujitsu And RIKEN
Very few organizations have enough iron to train a large language model in a reasonably short amount of time, and that is why most will be grabbing pre-trained models and then retraining the parameters in the models with much smaller datasets that are important to them. …
Japan Gets An LLM Compliments Of Fujitsu And RIKEN was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Top500 Supers: This Is Peak Nvidia For Accelerated Supercomputers
If high bandwidth memory was widely available and we had cheap and reliable fusion power, there never would have been a move to use GPU and other compute engines as vector and matrix math offload engines. …
Top500 Supers: This Is Peak Nvidia For Accelerated Supercomputers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Greasing The Skids To Move AI From InfiniBand To Ethernet
Just about everybody, including Nvidia, thinks that in the long run, most people running most AI training and inference workloads at any appreciable scale – hundreds to millions of datacenter devices – will want a cheaper alternative for networking AI accelerators than InfiniBand. …
Greasing The Skids To Move AI From InfiniBand To Ethernet was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AI At The Edge Is Different From AI In The Datacenter
Today’s pace of business requires companies to find faster ways to serve customers, gather actionable insights, increase operational efficiency, and reduce costs. …
AI At The Edge Is Different From AI In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AI Accelerates Cloud Revenues As Well As Cloud Investments
Three years ago, thanks in part to competitive pressures as Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and others started giving Amazon Web Services a run for the cloud money, the growth rate in quarterly spending on cloud services was slowing. …
AI Accelerates Cloud Revenues As Well As Cloud Investments was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Supermicro Finally Mints Some Coin Peddling Rackscale Iron
With new generations of GPUs and other kinds of AI accelerators either shipping or soon to start shipping and new CPUs also soon to be available from Intel and AMD, and sales already at a historical high level at Supermicro, you might not be expecting for sales to bust through a whole new higher ceiling starting in the next quarter. …
Supermicro Finally Mints Some Coin Peddling Rackscale Iron was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
How To Make More Money Renting A GPU Than Nvidia Makes Selling It
It is not a coincidence that the companies that got the most “Hopper” H100 allocations from Nvidia in 2023 were also the hyperscalers and cloud builders, who in many cases wear both hats and who are as interested in renting out their GPU capacity for others to build AI models as they are in innovating in the development of large language models. …
How To Make More Money Renting A GPU Than Nvidia Makes Selling It was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AMD Firing On All Compute Engine Cylinders
A few years ago, it was hard to imagine how AMD would have survived without re-entering the datacenter with its CPU and GPU compute engines. …
AMD Firing On All Compute Engine Cylinders was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Perfect AI Storage: Trino From Facebook And Iceberg From Netflix?
When it comes to solving data analytics problems at scale, it is tough to beat the hyperscalers. …
The Perfect AI Storage: Trino From Facebook And Iceberg From Netflix? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Building The Power Grid Of Tomorrow
The energy sector is undergoing a monumental shift as the power grid struggles to accommodate growing demand and the complexity of modern energy systems. …
Building The Power Grid Of Tomorrow was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Cutting Edge In Power Grid Management
Commissioned: Thanks to recent technological advancements, there are many different sources of electricity available which can help organizations address our growing demand for energy from power hungry devices such as electric vehicles while reducing their reliance on fossil fuels like petroleum, coal, and gas. …
The Cutting Edge In Power Grid Management was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Intel Hits Bottom In The Datacenter – Maybe
It would be hard to pick a worse time to not have an XPU offload engine that can do lots of matrix math at mixed precision and that can ship in volume. …
Intel Hits Bottom In The Datacenter – Maybe was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
IBM Buys HashiCorp To Control The Alternative To Red Hat Kubernetes
It has been quite a week for Hashi Corp, the company behind the open source Hashi Stack of systems software for creating and running modern, distributed applications. …
IBM Buys HashiCorp To Control The Alternative To Red Hat Kubernetes was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sandia Pushes The Neuromorphic AI Envelope With Hala Point “Supercomputer”
Not many devices in the datacenter have been etched with the Intel 4 process, which is the chip maker’s spin on 7 nanometer extreme ultraviolet immersion lithography. …
Sandia Pushes The Neuromorphic AI Envelope With Hala Point “Supercomputer” was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sweetened IT Spending Forecast Is Not Precisely A GenAI Boom
Here is a paradox for you: Spending on infrastructure to support generative AI is apparently booming, as clearly evidenced by the skyrocketing revenues and profits of Nvidia. …
Sweetened IT Spending Forecast Is Not Precisely A GenAI Boom was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AI At The Edge: From Theory To Practice
The Internet of Things (IoT) has shown significant growth and promise, with data generated by IoT devices alone expected to reach 73.1 zettabytes by 2025. …
AI At The Edge: From Theory To Practice was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Meta’s Llama 3 AI Is Smart, But Who Is Going To Profit From It?
With large language models, bigger is better (and faster) but better is also better. …
Meta’s Llama 3 AI Is Smart, But Who Is Going To Profit From It? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
TSMC Will Have An AI Business Bigger Than All Of Intel Foundry
Everyone is in a big hurry to get the latest and greatest GPU accelerators to build generative AI platforms. …
TSMC Will Have An AI Business Bigger Than All Of Intel Foundry was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
What Happens When Hyperscalers And Clouds Buy Most Servers And Storage?
We have a long-standing joke that dates from the early 2000s, when the hyperscalers – there were not yet cloud builders as we now know them – started having hundreds of millions of users and millions of servers and storage arrays to run applications for them at the same time there was the beginnings of consolidation among the OEMs who created the servers and storage used by nearly all enterprises, including dot-com startups. …
What Happens When Hyperscalers And Clouds Buy Most Servers And Storage? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.