AWS Adds Managed Slurm To ParallelCluster Cloudy Supercomputers

It is hard to believe that Amazon Web Services has been selling compute, storage, and networking capacity for nearly two decades. …

AWS Adds Managed Slurm To ParallelCluster Cloudy Supercomputers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

NOAA Gets $100 Million Windfall For “Rhea” Research Supercomputer

All of the weather and climate simulation centers on Earth are trying to figure out how to use a mixture of traditional HPC simulation and modeling with various kinds of AI prediction to create forecasts for both near-term weather and long-term climate that have higher fidelity and go out further into the future. …

NOAA Gets $100 Million Windfall For “Rhea” Research Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Profiting From The GenAI Boom Is Tough Even If It Democratizes

Wall Street might have unreasonable expectations about how OEMs and ODMs can profit from the GenAI boom through selling GPU laden systems. …

Profiting From The GenAI Boom Is Tough Even If It Democratizes was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Cloud HPC Is The ‘SilverLining’ in Global Warming Mitigation

PARTNER CONTENT  Scientists say the global climate crisis is continuing to intensify, and managing the situation requires increasingly innovative solutions. …

Cloud HPC Is The ‘SilverLining’ in Global Warming Mitigation was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

TACC Fires Up “Vista” Bridge To Future “Horizon” Supercomputer

The Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Austin is the flagship datacenter for supercomputing for the US National Science Foundation, and so what TACC does – and doesn’t do – is a kind of bellwether for academic supercomputing. …

TACC Fires Up “Vista” Bridge To Future “Horizon” Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The First AI Benchmarks Pitting AMD Against Nvidia

Rated horsepower for a compute engine is an interesting intellectual exercise, but it is where the rubber hits the road that really matters. …

The First AI Benchmarks Pitting AMD Against Nvidia was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Dell’s AI Server Business Now Bigger Than VMware Used To Be

We have been watching the big original equipment manufactures like a hawk to see how they are generating revenues and income from GPU-accelerated system sales. …

Dell’s AI Server Business Now Bigger Than VMware Used To Be was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Reduce Manual Effort, Achieve Better Coverage With AI And Formal Techniques

PARTNER CONTENT  Given the size and complexity of modern semiconductor designs, functional verification has become a dominant phase in the development cycle. …

Reduce Manual Effort, Achieve Better Coverage With AI And Formal Techniques was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Nvidia Says “Blackwell” GPU Issues Are Fixed, Ramp Starts In Fiscal Q4

Welcome to the most important earnings call in history, with the weight of the aggregate stock markets of the entire world hanging on what Nvidia says and doesn’t say. …

Nvidia Says “Blackwell” GPU Issues Are Fixed, Ramp Starts In Fiscal Q4 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Interview: Post-Earnings Insight With Nvidia CFO Colette Kress

After Wall Street closed the markets for the day and Nvidia reported its financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2025, we had the opportunity to chat with Colette Kress, chief financial officer of the accelerated computing giant. …

Interview: Post-Earnings Insight With Nvidia CFO Colette Kress was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

IBM Shows Off Next-Gen AI Acceleration, On Chip DPU For Big Iron

Big Blue might be a little late to the AI acceleration game, but it has a captive audience in its System z mainframe and Power Systems servers. …

IBM Shows Off Next-Gen AI Acceleration, On Chip DPU For Big Iron was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Get Your Data House In Order To Unlock Your Generative AI Strategy

COMMISSIONED  Organizations must consider many things before deploying generative AI services, from choosing models and tech stacks to selecting relevant use cases. …

Get Your Data House In Order To Unlock Your Generative AI Strategy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Bechtolsheim Outlines Scaling XPU Performance By 100X By 2028

Effects are multiplicative, not additive, when it comes to increasing compute engine performance. …

Bechtolsheim Outlines Scaling XPU Performance By 100X By 2028 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

This AI Network Has No Spine – And That’s A Good Thing

When you are designing applications that run across the scale of an entire datacenter and that are comprised of hundreds to thousands of microservices running on countless individual servers and that have to be called within a matter of microseconds to give the illusion of a monolithic application, building fully connected, high bi-section bandwidth Clos networks is a must. …

This AI Network Has No Spine – And That’s A Good Thing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

When You’re Building The Future, The Past Is No Longer A Guide

A complex world demands complex systems.

Designing and improving new industrial systems, semiconductors, or vehicles, whether earth or space bound, presents massive engineering and manufacturing challenges. …

When You’re Building The Future, The Past Is No Longer A Guide was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Arista Banks On The AI Network Double Whammy

Current AI training and some AI inference clusters have two networks. …

Arista Banks On The AI Network Double Whammy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Supermicro Financials Get Better As The Company Gets Bigger

It’s still Ketchup Week here at The Next Platform, and we are going to be circling back to look at the financials of a number of bellwether datacenter companies that we could not get to during a number of medical crisis – including but not limited to our family catching COVID when we took a week of vacation at a lake in Michigan. …

Supermicro Financials Get Better As The Company Gets Bigger was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Building Blocks of AI: How Storage Architecture Shapes AI Success

COMMISSIONED  On a bustling factory floor, an advanced AI system orchestrates a symphony of robotic arms, each performing its task with precision. …

Building Blocks of AI: How Storage Architecture Shapes AI Success was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Why AMD Spent $4.9 Billion To Buy ZT Systems

If AMD is willing and eager to spend $4.9 billion to buy a systems company – that is more than its entire expected haul for sales of datacenter GPUs for 2024 – then you have to figure that acquisition is pretty important. …

Why AMD Spent $4.9 Billion To Buy ZT Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

AI Pervades The Cisco Stack, But Is Only Starting To Drive Sales

Like many other suppliers of hardware and systems software, Cisco Systems is trying to figure out how to make money on the AI revolution. …

AI Pervades The Cisco Stack, But Is Only Starting To Drive Sales was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.