For traditional HPC workloads, AMD’s MI250X is still a powerhouse when it comes to double precision floating point grunt. …
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SPONSORED FEATURE: The next generation internet is all about experience. Hyperscalers like Google, Azure and Facebook epitomize the importance of both technological and customer experience. …
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It looks like Hewlett Packard Enterprise might be having a datacenter networking revival. …
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Investment in supercomputing and related HPC technologies is not just a sign of how much we are willing to bet on the future with someone else’s money, but how much we believe in it ourselves, and more importantly, how much we believe in the core idea that we can predict and therefore shape the future of the world. …
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Without question, the biggest bottleneck in artificial intelligence and for a lot of HPC workloads today is bandwidth. …
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The end of Moore’s Law – the real Moore’s Law where transistors get cheaper and faster with every process shrink – is making chip makers crazy. …
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You might be thinking that with all of the investment in AI systems these days that the boom in InfiniBand interconnect sales would be eating into sales of high-end Ethernet interconnects in the datacenter. …
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Ever since the launch of the “Antares” MI300X and MI300A compute engines by AMD back in early December, we have been mulling over the spending forecasts for AI spending in general and for infrastructure and accelerators more specifically. …
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Great Accelerations: Just How Much Will We Spend On GenAI Again? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Emulation is not just the sincerest form of flattery. It is also how you jump start the adoption of a new compute engine or move an entire software stack from one platform to another with a different architecture. …
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The University of Stuttgart’s High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) in Germany has tapped Hewlett Packard Enterprise to build a pair of its next-generation supercomputers. …
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It is hard to keep a model of datacenter infrastructure spending in your head at the same time you want to look at trends in cloud and on-premises spending as well as keep score among the key IT suppliers to figure out who is winning and who is losing. …
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Datacenter Infrastructure Report Card, Q3 2023 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
With each successive Intel Xeon SP server processor launch, we can’t help but think the same thing: it would have been better for Intel and customers alike if this chip was out the door a year ago, or two years ago, as must have been planned. …
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When it comes to funding rounds for high tech companies, the alphabet usually runs out somewhere around Series E. …
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If the original equipment manufacturers of the world had software massive software divisions – like many of them tried to do a two decades ago as they tried to emulate IBM and then changed their minds a decade ago when they sold off their software and services businesses and pared down to pushing tin and iron – then maybe they might have been on the front edge of AI software development and maybe they would have been closer to the front of the line for GPU allocations from Nvidia and AMD. …
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COMMISSIONED: Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to change the world. But AI algorithms are only as good as the data sets they’re built on. …
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The world has gone nuts for generative AI, and it is going to get a whole lot crazier. …
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SPONSORED POST: Edge security is a growing headache. The attack surface is expanding as more operational functions migrate out of centralized locations and into distributed sites and devices. …
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There is nothing quite like great hardware to motivate people to create and tune software to take full advantage of it during a boom time. …
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AMD Is The Undisputed Datacenter GPU Performance Champ – For Now was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Note: We will be updating this story with more information once our contacts in China are awake:
China is using a domestic processor as the backbone for double the performance of the Tianhe-2 system, which topped the Top 500 starting in 2013 and running through late 2015 before being overshadowed by the Sunway system in recent years. …
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What’s Inside China’s New Homegrown “Tianhe Xingyi” Supercomputer? was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED FEATURE: So, you’re finally ready to jump on the AI bandwagon. …
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