If you are a Global 20,000 company and you want to build a large language model that is specifically tuned to your business, the first thing you need is a corpus of your own textual data on which to train that LLM. …
Where Financial Models Meet Large Language Models was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED POST Over the past decade, the heat generated by server CPUs has increased by 3.5X and now is pushing 500 watts. …
Energy Efficiency Pays Its Way In The Datacenter was written by Elyse at The Next Platform.
Video has taken over the Internet, with almost 80 percent or so of the traffic being video. …
Internet-Scale Video Requires Its Own Kind Of Supercomputing was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
We read a fairly large number of technical papers here at The Next Platform, and it is a rare thing indeed when we can recommend that everyone – or damned near everyone – should read a paper. …
The Crazy Eights Of Large Language Models was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you think designing a new CPU from scratch is hard, you ought to try raising money to do it. …
Money Changes Everything For SiPearl was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sponsored Feature: Training an AI model takes an enormous amount of compute capacity coupled with high bandwidth memory. …
Why AI Inference Will Remain Largely On The CPU was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
It was only a matter of time, perhaps, but the skyrocketing costs of designing chips is colliding with the ever-increasing need for performance, price/performance, and performance per watt. …
RISC-V In The Datacenter Is No Risky Proposition was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If incumbent storage suppliers want to have a business in the hybrid cloud world, they have to find ways to erase the line between what’s in the cloud and what’s on-premises – and increasingly what’s at the edge. …
HPE Converges 3PAR Block And Vast Data File Onto One Alletra MP Platform was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Historically Intel put all its cumulative chip knowledge to work advancing Moore’s Law and applying those learnings to its future CPUs. …
The Most Complex Chip Ever Made? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The central bankers of the world want to curb inflation by putting a serious crimp in demand, and it looks like they may get what they want – sort of – in 2023 when it comes to datacenter infrastructure. …
Cloud Spending Curtailed, On Premises Spending Heading Into Recession was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The best kinds of research are those that test new ideas and that also lead to practical innovations in real products. …
A Peek Into The Future Of AI Inference At Nvidia was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sponsored Feature: Back in the old days, there was a CPU and chip designers crammed everything into that single CPU, which made sense for the greatest number of customers offset against the additional cost of adding extra functionality. …
The Age Of Acceleration Engines was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
It was a reasonable enough gut reaction given the many changes happening at Intel in recent months. …
Finally: Some Good News For The Intel Xeon CPU Roadmap was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We could have a long, thoughtful, and important conversation about the way AI is transforming the world. …
Cerebras Smashes AI Wide Open, Countering Hypocrites was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED: Ransomware may currently be the biggest bogeyman for cybersecurity pros, law enforcement, and governments, but it shouldn’t divert us from more traditional, but still very disruptive threats. …
DDoS DNS attacks are old-school, unsophisticated … and they’re back was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
Disaggregation means a lot of things, but the one thing that it most certainly does not mean is that every little thing in a system necessarily has to be smashed apart and then put back together in a composable ways. …
Enfabrica Converges Extended Memory And I/O Down To One Chip was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED: For nearly 150 years, we’ve been doing our best to squeeze messages into light. …
Pushing the boundaries of web-scale optical DCI performance was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
Similar to interior designers trying to fit the chairs, tables, and other furniture in rooms inside of a home, chip designers have to figure out where the various bits and pieces of a processor will lie on confined floor plans where latency between parts matters. …
The Dream Of Placing Blocks On Chip Designs With AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED: The value of great engineering is often overlooked, yet almost every object we use on a daily basis has been meticulously designed and tested by somebody somewhere to deliver the best possible performance and meet exacting cost and efficiency requirements. …
Power to the engineering people was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
Containers are still the hot new technology in the datacenter to some, but many of the pieces and parts that eventually would find their way into today’s container platforms have long-since been used by enterprises and developers thanks to Docker. …
Docker Helped Invent Containers, And Is Now Reinventing Itself was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.