PARTNER CONTENT: High performance computing (HPC) decision-makers are starting to prioritize energy efficiency in operations and procurement plans. …
How Does HPC In The Cloud Enable Energy Efficiency? was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
Pat Gelsinger, current chief executive officer at Intel and formerly the head of its Data Center Group as well as its chief technology officer, famously invented the tick-tock method of chip launches to bring some order and reason to the way the world’s largest chip maker – as it was in the mid-2000s – mitigated risk and spurred innovation in its products. …
Intel: I Was Lostry, But Now I Am Foundry was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED FEATURE: We might all be working for the same organization, even on the same infrastructure. …
Tighter IT/OT Integration Starts With Zero Touch was written by Joseph Martins at The Next Platform.
Here is a history question for you: How many IT suppliers who do a reasonable portion of their business in the commercial IT sector – and a lot of that in the datacenter – have ever broken through the $100 billion barrier? …
Nvidia Will Be The Next IT Giant To Break $100 Billion In Sales was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Spoiler alert!
A lot of neat things have just been added to the Arm Neoverse datacenter compute roadmap, but one of them is not a datacenter-class, discrete GPU accelerator. …
Arm Neoverse Roadmap Brings CPU Designs, But No Big Fat GPU was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For a lot of state universities in the United States, and their equivalent political organizations of regions or provinces in other nations across the globe, it is a lot easier to find extremely interested undergraduate and graduate students who want to contribute to the font of knowledge in high performance computing than it is to find the budget to build a top-notch supercomputer of reasonable scale. …
OSC Blends Intel HBM CPUs And Nvidia HBM GPUs For “Cardinal” Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Riding high on the AI hype cycle, Lambda – formerly known as Lambda Labs and well known to readers of The Next Platform – has received a $320 million cash infusion to expand its GPU cloud to support training clusters spanning thousands of Nvidia’s top specced accelerators. …
Lambda Snags $320 Million To Grow Its Rent-A-GPU Cloud was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.
UPDATED: Getting your hands on an Nvidia “Hopper” H100 GPU is probably the most difficult thing in the world right now. …
Half Eos’d: Even Nvidia Can’t Get Enough H100s For Its Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The only way to accurately predict the future is to live it, but just the same, prognostication is one of the things that we humans love to do. …
Talking AI Costs And Addressable Markets With SambaNova was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As a founding member of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium, which has the express purpose of making Ethernet as good for AI and HPC clusters as InfiniBand but with the scalability and familiarity of Ethernet, Arista Networks wants to benefit mightily from the AI wave that is coming to enterprise datacenters the world over. …
Arista Networks Conservatively Awaits Its AI Boom was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The vibe around generative AI is still one of a land rush since OpenAI unleased ChatGPT into the public sphere in late November 2022, with investors dishing out millions of dollars, vendors big and small pumping out products and services, and organizations trying to integrate them into their back-office and user-facing operations. …
You Can Build GenAI From Scratch, Or Go Straight To SaaS was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
PARTNER CONTENT: Trillion-dollar industries are exploring new ways of increasing high performance computing (HPC) performance, while saving resources and reducing costs. …
Cloud-Based HPC To Improve Performance And Save Resources was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.
We don’t like a mystery and we particularly don’t like it when what is very likely the most powerful supercomputer in the world – at this time anyway – is veiled in secrecy. …
The Mystery Of Tianhe-3, The World’s Fastest Supercomputer, Solved? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The only thing stronger than having absolute control, as happens in monopolies and oligopolies, is the strength that comes from numbers. …
Making Dollars And Sense Of Arm Holdings was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For a market that is so integral to the global economy, it sure is hard to get a complete dataset on quarterly and annual spending on information technology. …
Server And Storage Spending Growth Looks Rosy Out To 2027 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In many ways, the “Grace” CG100 server processor created by Nvidia – its first true server CPU and a very useful adjunct for extending the memory space of its “Hopper” GH100 GPU accelerators – was designed perfectly for HPC simulation and modeling workloads. …
Nvidia’s “Grace” Arm CPU Holds Its Own Against X86 For HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
While Amazon Web Services has first mover advantage when it comes to building a compute and storage cloud, it would be a mistake to believe that the division of the world’s largest online retailer can rest on its laurels. …
A Tale Of Three Cloud Builders, All Seeking Dominance was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
COMMISSIONED: Retailers are using edge computing for a variety of use cases, collecting data from sensors, cameras and other devices and crunching the numbers with advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the customer experience and drive efficiencies. …
The Retail Edge Needs Resilient IT was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
If money and time were no object, every workload in every datacenter of the world would have hardware co-designed to optimally run it. …
Cadence Sells Custom GPU Supercomputers To Run New CFD Code was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is beginning to look like AMD’s Instinct datacenter GPU accelerator business is going to do a lot better in 2024 than many had expected and that the company’s initial forecasts given back in October anticipated. …
How The “Antares” MI300 GPU Ramp Will Save AMD’s Datacenter Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.