While the world continues to fixate on AI, there are still plenty of high performance computing workloads that need doing and a speedup to any one part can have a big impact, whether it be computational fluid dynamics, material analysis, or something else. …
Laser-Based Compute Promises To Light The Way To Faster Physics Sims was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.
To a certain extent, Nvidia and AMD are not really selling GPU compute capacity as much as they are reselling just enough HBM memory capacity and bandwidth to barely balance out the HBM memory they can get their hands on, thereby justifying the ever-embiggening amount of compute their GPU complexes get overstuffed with. …
AMD Plots Interception Course With Nvidia GPU And System Roadmaps was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
PCI-SIG, the organization that oversees the roadmap for the critical PCI-Express peripheral attachment specification, is continuing to keep to its three-year drumbeat for releasing the next iteration of the interconnect spec and already has its sights on the one after that, expected to be released in 2028 and appear in devices in 2030 or so. …
It’s Been Three Years, So It’s Time For Another PCI-Express Speed Bump was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Much of the business that Cisco Systems and others have been doing in the AI infrastructure field since OpenAI lit the generative AI fuse with ChatGPT in November 2022 has been deploying hardware and software with the hyperscalers, a lucrative business that led company executives to promise to sell as much as $1 billion in back-end network technology by the end of its fiscal year and then to blow past that a quarter early. …
Cisco’s Hyperscale And Cloud AI Push Will Give It Enterprise Clout was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The newest of the exascale-class supercomputer to be profiled in the Top500 rankings in the June list is the long-awaited “Jupiter” system at Forschungszentrum Jülich facility in Germany. …
Peeling The Covers Off Germany’s Exascale “Jupiter” Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The International Super Computing 2025 conference is going on this week in Hamburg, Germany and is celebrating its 40th anniversary. …
Top500 Supers: Even Accelerators Can’t Bend Performance Up To The Moore’s Law Line was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
After three relatively short years of explosive growth thanks to the GenAI boom, AI is driving half of systems revenues worldwide already. …
Broadcom At The Crossroads Between Merchant And Custom Silicon was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Unsurprisingly, the main topic of conversation at the recent Dell Technologies World 2025 event in Las Vegas was AI, and a central theme that wove through many of the messages we heard there was that adopting the emerging technology is much easier now than it was even a year ago. …
Dell’s Advice To Enterprises: Buy AI, Don’t Try To Build It was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
When you drive around the major metropolitan areas of this great country of ours, and indeed in any most of the developed countries at this point, you see two things. …
AWS Plunks Down $10 Billion For Datacenters In North Carolina was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is going through yet another restructuring to reduce costs, something we have seen a lot of in the past two decades and a half decades since it acquired Compaq to become a volume server peddler as well as high end system supplier for enterprises. …
HPE Uses AI To Drive The Business, Which Is Increasingly AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
While it has always been true that flatter networks and faster networks are possible with every speed bump on the Ethernet roadmap, the scale of networks has kept growing fast enough that the switch ASIC makers and the switch makers have been able to make it up in volume and keep the switch business growing. …
The AI Datacenter Is Ravenous For 102.4 Tb/sec Ethernet Switch ASICs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED POST: When you have got disparate data flowing in from every corner of your business, making sense of it all and making it work harder for you isn’t always easy. …
Unlock The Power Of Your Data With BigQuery was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Marvell Technology made some big bets about delivering chip packaging and I/O technologies to the hyperscalers and cloud builders of the world who want to design their own ASICs but who do not have the expertise to get those designs across the finish line into products. …
Marvell Is Saved By The AI Boom, But Every Deal Is Tough was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Back in February, Dell, the world’s largest server maker, told Wall Street that it was planning on selling and delivering $15 billion in AI servers in its fiscal 2026, when will end in early November. …
Dell Sets Up For A Killer Spike In AI Server Sales was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
“No.”
That’s probably a word that Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia, doesn’t hear a lot. …
Nvidia Does Not Need China, But It Craves It And That Is Risky was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Pendulums are always swinging back and forth in the datacenter, with functions being offloaded from one thing and onloaded to another cheaper thing that is often more flexible or faster. …
With DPU-Goosed Switches, HPE Tackles VMware, Security – And Maybe HPC And AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is a pretty bold claim for anyone to call themselves the creator of the operating system for AI. …
Why We Need A Data-Centric OS For AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sponsored Post: The 2025 AI Infra Summit will bring some of the brightest minds in AI and its supporting infrastructure to Santa Clara on September 9-11 this year. …
Reasons to attend the 2025 AI Infra Summit was written by Chris Williams at The Next Platform.
All things being equal, you probably would not build a 5 gigawatt datacenter on Earth in the desert near the equator. …
OpenAI Datacenters Follow The Money To Abu Dhabi was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Here is how you know you are in a tough business: No matter what you do, no matter how hard your people work and how smart they are, no matter that you are riding the wild tiger of AI growth and revenues have grown marvelously, you can’t make any money. …
Lenovo Breaks Even On Datacenter Hardware, Makes It Up In Services was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.