The Ethernet roadmap has had a few bumps and potholes in the four and a half decades since the 10M generation was first published in 1980. …
Synopsys Shepherds Circuits Towards 1.6T Ethernet was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
In the ten years since Google released Kubernetes to the open source community, it has become the dominant platform for orchestrating and managing software containers and microservices, along the way muscling out competitors like Docker Swarm and Mesosphere. …
Kubernetes Clusters Have Massive Overprovisioning Of Compute And Memory was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Back in 2015, when we were launching The Next Platform, a lot of stuff was going on all at the same time, which is part of the zeitgeist that we were tapping into and that we wanted to chronical upon and participate within. …
The Once And Future FPGA Maker Altera was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sponsored Feature: With technology, as with real estate, location is everything. …
A Different View From The Edge was written by Joseph Martins at The Next Platform.
There is more than one way to get to a large language model with over 1 trillion parameters that can do lots of different things and enterprises can use to create AI training and inference infrastructure to extend and enrich their thousands of applications. …
SambaNova Pits LLM Collective Against Monolithic AI Models was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
What is the most important factor that will drive the Nvidia datacenter GPU accelerator juggernaut in 2024? …
He Who Can Pay Top Dollar For HBM Memory Controls AI Training was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
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.