It has become a well known fact these days that the switches that are used to interconnect distributed systems are not the most expensive part of that network, but rather it is the optical transceivers and fiber optic cables that comprise the bulk of the cost. …
Copper Wires Have Already Failed Clustered AI Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For a decade before the generative AI boom took off in late 2022, classical artificial intelligence, used for all kinds of self-learning predictive algorithms, was destined to be a very large component of the IT stack at most organizations in the world. …
The Difficulty – And Necessity – Of Parsing Out AI Spending was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Some people are obsessed by crowd sizes, others by their net worth, and still others by the size of their AI datacenters. …
Green Acres Is The Place For Larry was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The major cloud builders and their hyperscaler brethren – in many cases, one company acts like both a cloud and a hyperscaler – have made their technology choices when it comes to deploying AI training platforms. …
The Battle Begins For AI Inference Compute In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It’s a multi-cloud world and one with a cloud infrastructure services market that is dominated by three large players. …
Oracle Runs OCI Clones At Rival AWS, Google, And Azure Clouds was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
PARTNER CONTENT: Most retailers are saddled with aging, heterogeneous IT environments spread across wide geographical areas, making it difficult to adopt the latest and greatest advancements of the data-driven, artificial intelligence (AI) age. …
Where Retail Meets The Intelligent Edge, Great Things Are Happening was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is hard to believe that Amazon Web Services has been selling compute, storage, and networking capacity for nearly two decades. …
AWS Adds Managed Slurm To ParallelCluster Cloudy Supercomputers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
All of the weather and climate simulation centers on Earth are trying to figure out how to use a mixture of traditional HPC simulation and modeling with various kinds of AI prediction to create forecasts for both near-term weather and long-term climate that have higher fidelity and go out further into the future. …
NOAA Gets $100 Million Windfall For “Rhea” Research Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Wall Street might have unreasonable expectations about how OEMs and ODMs can profit from the GenAI boom through selling GPU laden systems. …
Profiting From The GenAI Boom Is Tough Even If It Democratizes was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
PARTNER CONTENT Scientists say the global climate crisis is continuing to intensify, and managing the situation requires increasingly innovative solutions. …
Cloud HPC Is The ‘SilverLining’ in Global Warming Mitigation was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Austin is the flagship datacenter for supercomputing for the US National Science Foundation, and so what TACC does – and doesn’t do – is a kind of bellwether for academic supercomputing. …
TACC Fires Up “Vista” Bridge To Future “Horizon” Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Rated horsepower for a compute engine is an interesting intellectual exercise, but it is where the rubber hits the road that really matters. …
The First AI Benchmarks Pitting AMD Against Nvidia was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We have been watching the big original equipment manufactures like a hawk to see how they are generating revenues and income from GPU-accelerated system sales. …
Dell’s AI Server Business Now Bigger Than VMware Used To Be was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
PARTNER CONTENT Given the size and complexity of modern semiconductor designs, functional verification has become a dominant phase in the development cycle. …
Reduce Manual Effort, Achieve Better Coverage With AI And Formal Techniques was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Welcome to the most important earnings call in history, with the weight of the aggregate stock markets of the entire world hanging on what Nvidia says and doesn’t say. …
Nvidia Says “Blackwell” GPU Issues Are Fixed, Ramp Starts In Fiscal Q4 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
After Wall Street closed the markets for the day and Nvidia reported its financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2025, we had the opportunity to chat with Colette Kress, chief financial officer of the accelerated computing giant. …
Interview: Post-Earnings Insight With Nvidia CFO Colette Kress was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We all had been wondering what VMware would look like when it became part of Broadcom’s massive universe following the semiconductor giant’s $69 billion acquisition of the virtualization juggernaut. …
VMware Wants To Redefine Private Cloud With VCF 9 was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Big Blue might be a little late to the AI acceleration game, but it has a captive audience in its System z mainframe and Power Systems servers. …
IBM Shows Off Next-Gen AI Acceleration, On Chip DPU For Big Iron was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Hardware is always the star of Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference, and this year we got previews of “Blackwell” datacenter GPUs, the cornerstone of a 2025 platform that includes “Grace” CPUs, the NVLink Switch 5 chip, the Bluefield-3 DPU, and other components, all of which Nvidia is talking about again this week at the Hot Chips 2024 conference. …
Nvidia Rolls Out Blueprints For The Next Wave Of Generative AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
COMMISSIONED Organizations must consider many things before deploying generative AI services, from choosing models and tech stacks to selecting relevant use cases. …
Get Your Data House In Order To Unlock Your Generative AI Strategy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.