AI is having a seismic impact on processes across all industries, speeding things up and driving costs down. …
Startup Quantum Elements Brings AI, Digital Twins To Quantum Computing was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
But virtue of its scale out capability, which is key for driving the size of absolutely enormous AI clusters, and to its universality, Ethernet switch sales are booming, and if the recent history is any guide, we can expect Ethernet revenues will climb exponentially higher in the coming quarters as well. …
Pushed By GenAI And Front End Upgrades, Ethernet Switching Hits New Highs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In the early days of D-Wave’s history, the company made a decision to pursue annealing as its first technology to build a quantum computer because it promised to offer the fastest path to commercial quantum computing. …
D-Wave Makes Gate-Model Power Move With Quantum Circuits Buy was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Under Lisa Su’s more than eleven years as AMD’s chief executive officer, the company has returned from Opteron exile to be a formidable CPU foe to Intel in the datacenter, due in large part to the innovation around its Zen microarchitecture and Epyc server chips driven by Su, chief technology officer Mark Papermaster, and countless others. …
AMD Contemplates And Engineers Yottascale AI Compute was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Having an annual cadence for the improvement of AI systems is a great thing if you happen to be buying the newest iron at exactly the right time. …
Nvidia’s Vera-Rubin Platform Obsoletes Current AI Iron Six Months Ahead Of Launch was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The number of AI inference chip startups in the world is gross – literally gross, as in a dozen dozens. …
Rebellions AI Puts Together An HBM And Arm Alliance To Take On Nvidia was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If there was ever a demonstration of Jevons’ paradox, it’s the supercomputing sector. …
Liquid Cooling Means More Performance And Less Heat For Supercomputing was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
A total addressable market is a forecast of what will be sold – more precisely, what can be manufactured and sold. …
HBM Supply Curve Gets Steeper, But Still Can’t Meet Demand was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It has always been funny to us that anyone can acquire control of an open source project. …
Nvidia Nearly Completes Its Control Freakery With Slurm Acquisition was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AI is changing what “good” looks like in the modern datacenter. …
Building The AI Factory Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
An alien flying in from space aboard a comet would look down on Earth and see that there is this highly influential and famous software company called Nvidia that just so happens to have a massively complex and ridiculously profitable hardware business running a collection of proprietary and open source software that about three quarters of its approximately 40,000 employees create. …
Nvidia Is The Only AI Model Maker That Can Afford To Give It Away was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The way that organizations plan, design and run a datacenter was already under pressure. …
Tomorrow’s Datacenter Won’t Be Like Yesterday’s – Here’s Why was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We can all talk until we are blue in the face about how weird it is for so much money to be spent on servers during the GenAI boom, but after reviewing the latest market report from IDC – which is one again but sporadically giving out some stats to the public – we thought that to feel the full impact of this change, we should draw you a picture of the past 26 years of server revenues by quarter so you can take it all in. …
How Sustainable Is This Crazy Server Spending? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
While there are a lot of different file system and object storage options available for HPC and AI customers, many AI organizations and a lot of traditional HPC simulation and modeling centers choose either the open source Lustre parallel file system or the modern variants of IBM’s General Parallel File System (GPFS), known previously as Spectrum Scale and now known as IBM Storage Scale, as the storage underpinning of their applications. …
What Do You Do When You Want GPFS On The Cloud? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We keep seeing the same thing over and over again in the AI racket, and people keep reacting to it like it is a new or surprising idea. …
Everybody But Nvidia And TSMC Has To Make It Up In Volume With AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Did people complain – and by people, we mean Wall Street – as the world’s largest bookseller invested huge amounts of money to transform itself into an alternative to driving to Wal-Mart? …
Oracle Is Using OpenAI To Build A Platform For The Enterprise was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We are still mulling over all of the new HPC-AI supercomputer systems that were announced in recent months before and during the SC25 supercomputing conference in St Louis, particularly how the slew of new machines announced by the HPC national labs will be advancing not just the state of the art, but also pushing down the cost of the FP64 floating point operations that still drives a lot of HPC simulation and modeling work. …
Driving HPC Performance Up Is Easier Than Keeping The Spending Constant was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
This year, about 45 percent of the revenues at Big Blue will come from software. …
IBM Broadens Its Enterprise Software Stack With Confluent Buy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Updated: We have obtained new information in the wake of publishing our story. …
AWS Graviton5 Strikes A Different Balance For Server CPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It was only a matter of time before Marvell was going to make another silicon photonics acquisition, and the $2.5 billion sale of its automotive Ethernet business to Infineon for $2.5 billion has given the company this past summer netted out to about half of the $3.25 billion that the company is shelling out to get its hands on Celestial AI, one of the several upstarts that hopes to hook compute engines, memory, and switches together using on-chip optical engines and light pipes. …
With Celestial AI Buy, Marvell Scales Up The Datacenter And Itself was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.