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AMD Turns The Screws With “Turin” Server CPUs
If you are looking to upgrade your X86 server fleet – and there is lots of chatter about how many enterprises as well as hyperscalers and cloud builders are in the financial mood to do that – then the good news is that both Intel and AMD have now rolled out the best serial compute engines they have ever fielded. …
AMD Turns The Screws With “Turin” Server CPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Taiwan’s Fastest AI Supercomputer Goes To Foxconn
Back in the day, when the AI revolution was young, Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer used to make the rounds with each new generation of datacenter GPUs and provide the first DGX systems based on any particular GPU to marquee customers. …
Taiwan’s Fastest AI Supercomputer Goes To Foxconn was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Stepping Stones In America To Exascale And Beyond
To a certain extent, all of the major HPC centers in the world live in the future. …
The Stepping Stones In America To Exascale And Beyond was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Datacenter Infrastructure Spending Is Up, And Forecasts Are Even Higher
The AI boom is going sonic, and it looks like we had all better cover our ears if we want to be able to hear by the end of the holiday season if the prognostications of the box counters at IDC are correct. …
Datacenter Infrastructure Spending Is Up, And Forecasts Are Even Higher was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Cerebras Needs Wall Street To Expand Beyond One Core Customer
Waferscale compute engine and AI system maker Cerebras Systems has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to sell a chunk of itself to the public, giving we outsiders a view of the past two and a half years of its internal financials. …
Cerebras Needs Wall Street To Expand Beyond One Core Customer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Even As Bandwidth Needs Explode, Ethernet Spending Is In Recession
No one like the R word, but we don’t shy away from data and calling it like we see it. …
Even As Bandwidth Needs Explode, Ethernet Spending Is In Recession was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Altera Is Being Realistic About FPGA Compute In The Datacenter
Like many a decade ago, we were enthusiastic about the prospect of triple-hybrid systems in the datacenter. …
Altera Is Being Realistic About FPGA Compute In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Balancing Innovation And Responsibility With AI
COMMISSIONED: Robust data governance is key to ethical, compliant, and efficient AI projects. …
Balancing Innovation And Responsibility With AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Tecton Moves Mountains Of Data To AI Models Automagically
You know what the hardest thing about building an AI system is? …
Tecton Moves Mountains Of Data To AI Models Automagically was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Intel Shoots “Granite Rapids” Xeon 6 Into The Datacenter
Intel has been talking about its “Granite Rapids” Xeon 6 processors for so long that it would be easy to forget that they have not yet been formally announced. …
Intel Shoots “Granite Rapids” Xeon 6 Into The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A GPU Upgrade For “Leonardo” Supercomputer But Not A Budget Upgrade
Neither scientific progress nor the budgetary process can wait for compute engine and interconnect roadmaps. …
A GPU Upgrade For “Leonardo” Supercomputer But Not A Budget Upgrade was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AI Powerhouses Choose The Nuclear Option
When you need to provide electricity to power and cool 100,000 accelerators, or maybe even 1 million of them in a few years, in a single location to run an AI model, you have to start thinking about the unthinkable if you also want to use carbon-free juice to power your AI ambitions. …
AI Powerhouses Choose The Nuclear Option was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AWS Boosts Memory Capacity On Graviton 4 Compute
UPDATED With its Graviton 4 homegrown Graviton 4 Arm server processors, Amazon Web Services has put into the field a CPU that can compete with all but the toppest of bin parts from AMD for X86 CPUs and Ampere Computing and Nvidia for Arm CPUs, and it is driving price/performance that will in turn drive their adoption for Amazon’s various business units and for its IT infrastructure rental customers on AWS. …
AWS Boosts Memory Capacity On Graviton 4 Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Irony Of AWS Being Intel’s Latest Savior
Intel needs a whole lot of big wins for both its chip design and selling business and its increasingly arm’s length foundry business if it is going to turn itself around and be competitive with AMD and Nvidia on the left hand and with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co on its right. …
The Irony Of AWS Being Intel’s Latest Savior was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Thinking Outside Of The Box With The Jupiter Supercomputer Datacenter
The concrete has been poured and the first containers that will house the exascale-class “Jupiter” system at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany are being lifted into place for the modular datacenter that will be the home of the massive machine. …
Thinking Outside Of The Box With The Jupiter Supercomputer Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Copper Wires Have Already Failed Clustered AI Systems
It has become a well known fact these days that the switches that are used to interconnect distributed systems are not the most expensive part of that network, but rather it is the optical transceivers and fiber optic cables that comprise the bulk of the cost. …
Copper Wires Have Already Failed Clustered AI Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Difficulty – And Necessity – Of Parsing Out AI Spending
For a decade before the generative AI boom took off in late 2022, classical artificial intelligence, used for all kinds of self-learning predictive algorithms, was destined to be a very large component of the IT stack at most organizations in the world. …
The Difficulty – And Necessity – Of Parsing Out AI Spending was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Green Acres Is The Place For Larry
Some people are obsessed by crowd sizes, others by their net worth, and still others by the size of their AI datacenters. …
Green Acres Is The Place For Larry was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Battle Begins For AI Inference Compute In The Datacenter
The major cloud builders and their hyperscaler brethren – in many cases, one company acts like both a cloud and a hyperscaler – have made their technology choices when it comes to deploying AI training platforms. …
The Battle Begins For AI Inference Compute In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Where Retail Meets The Intelligent Edge, Great Things Are Happening
PARTNER CONTENT: Most retailers are saddled with aging, heterogeneous IT environments spread across wide geographical areas, making it difficult to adopt the latest and greatest advancements of the data-driven, artificial intelligence (AI) age. …
Where Retail Meets The Intelligent Edge, Great Things Are Happening was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.