The University of Stuttgart’s High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) in Germany tapped Hewlett Packard Enterprise back in December 2023 to build a prototype hybrid CPU-GPU supercomputer nicknamed “Hunter” to pave the way towards an exascale-class machine it is budgeting to have installed in 2027 called “Herder.” …
HLRS Takes First Steps To Exascale was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is not hard to figure out who is in the catbird seat in the semiconductor foundry business. …
TSMC Can’t Be Caught Or Bought, Only Sought Or Stolen was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AI agents are the latest evolution in the relatively short life span of generative AI, and while some organizations are still trying to figure out how the emerging technology fits in their operations, others are making strides into agentic AI. …
Using NIM Guardrails To Keep Agentic AI From Jumping To Wrong Conclusions was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
COMMISSIONED: As with any emerging technology, implementing generative AI large language models (LLMs) isn’t easy and it’s totally fair to look side-eyed at anyone who suggests otherwise. …
Can Synthetic Data Help Us Scale AI’s Data Wall? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware in November 2023 and the subsequent changes to venerable virtualization company’s business model and pricing have rankled many long-time enterprise users, a situation that has been highly publicized despite assertions by Broadcom and VMware executives that such reports are little than FUD – short for fear, uncertainty, and doubt. …
Red Hat Woos VMware Shops With OpenShift Virtualization Engine was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
As one year ends and another begins, this is often the time when people change jobs and companies change strategies. …
It’s January: Datacenter Compute Rumors And Moves was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Perhaps no document has ever had a more appropriate title than the “Interim Final Rule on Artificial Intelligence Diffusion” announced by the Biden Administration and the US Department of Commerce today. …
Unstable Diffusion: Artificial Intelligence Meets Military Intelligence was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Transaction processing against relational databases may not be the focus of the datacenter, as it was when IBM created the first relational database and Oracle was founded to compete against it in the late 1970s. …
Oracle Revs Up Exadata Database Machines To X11M was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
IT companies have spent billions of dollars creating ways to move data more efficiently and cheaply in an increasingly distributed world of on-premises datacenters, multiple clouds, and the edge. …
A Novel Way To Compact Data For More Efficient Storage And Transmission was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
COMMISSIONED: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become the gold standard for helping businesses refine their large language model (LLM) results with corporate data. …
Scaling Retrieval Augmented Generation With RAGOps And Agents was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you want to be at the top of the food chain on Earth, as human beings have ascended to after millions of years of evolution, there are a bunch of things that you need to be able to do. …
The Future Is The One We Generate was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The original design manufacturers, or ODMs, as well as the portions of the original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs, that act like ODMs in that they create custom machines for hyperscalers and cloud builders and sell that at high volume and low margin, have long since taken over the server market. …
Ethernet Switching Still In Recession Thanks To AI Shift was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Here is what memory bandwidth and a certain amount of capacity is worth in the GenAI revolution. …
Micron Is Fashionably Late To The HBM Party, But Not Too Late was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The market for cloud infrastructure is now so large that it is very difficult for it to change drastically. …
Cloud Spending Forecast Trimmed For This Year And Next was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For years, scientists in the field of molecular dynamics have been squeezed in their research. …
Gordon Bell Prize Awarded To Molecular Dynamics-Quantum Mechanics Mashup On “Frontier” Supercomputer was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
COMMISSIONED AI and advanced storage systems ensure a smooth and profitable winter shopping season, so retailers don’t miss a beat during the holiday rush. …
From Black Friday To Christmas Eve: The Data-Driven Holiday Hustle was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The hyperscalers, cloud builders, HPC centers control the design and manufacturing of own AI infrastructure. …
Databricks Is Going To Be The Next Platform For Many Enterprises was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The expansion of the computing capacity in Europe for both traditional HPC simulation as well as AI training and modeling continues apace, with the Leibniz-Rechenzentrum lab in Germany announcing late last week (when we took a day of holiday) that it would be shelling out €250 million – about $262.7 million at current exchange rates – to build a hybrid CPU-GPU cluster based on Nvidia compute engines to tackle both kinds of high performance computing. …
LRZ Adopts Nvidia Engines For €250 Million “Blue Lion” Supercomputer In 2027 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Chip maker and enterprise software player Broadcom announced its financial results for the final quarter of its fiscal 2024 today, which ended on November third, and all we kept thinking about as chief executive officer Hock Tan went over the numbers was the question in the title above. …
How Long Before Broadcom Makes More AI Compute Engines Than Nvidia? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The AI era has a much different vibe than prior eras in the IT industry. …
GenAI Races Ahead, But Enterprises Are Still At The Starting Line was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.