It was only a few months ago when waferscale compute pioneer Cerebras Systems was bragging that a handful of its WSE-3 engines lashed together could run circles around Nvidia GPU instances based on Nvidia’s “Hopper” H100 GPUs when running the open source Llama 3.1 foundation model created by Meta Platforms. …
Cerebras Trains Llama Models To Leap Over GPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Big Blue has reported its financial results for the third quarter of 2024, and the thing that stands out most is not the System z16 mainframes and Power10 midrange and big iron are getting a little long in the tooth ahead of new product cycles expected to start in 2025. …
IBM’s Red Hat Acquisition Will Pay For Itself By Early Next Year was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
To AI or to not AI, that is not even a question in 2024. …
The Great Danes Get A Supercomputer For AI And Maybe HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
With the bottlenecks between compute engines, their memories, and their networking adapters growing larger with each passing generation of AI machinery, there has never been a more pressing need to shift away from copper and towards optics in datacenter systems. …
The Money Keeps Rolling In For Optical Interconnects was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As the last several years have shown, scaling up AI systems to train larger models with more parameters across more data is a very expensive proposition, and one that has made Nvidia fabulously rich. …
Unlocking The Future of AI Infrastructure: Breaking Through Bottlenecks For Profitability And Performance was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Every time Lisa Su, chief executive officer at AMD, announces a new Instinct GPU accelerator, the addressable market for AI acceleration in the datacenter seems to expand. …
The World Will Eat $2 Trillion In AI Servers, AI Will Eat The World Right Back was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
With a near monopoly on advanced chip manufacturing and packaging, it is no wonder that during the AI boom that the world’s largest foundry is not only making money. …
No Slowdown At TSMC, Thanks To The AI Gold Rush was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
According to rumors, Nvidia is not expected to deliver optical interconnects for its GPU memory-lashing NVLink protocol until the “Rubin Ultra” GPU compute engine in 2027. …
One Laser To Pump Up AI Interconnect Bandwidth By 10X was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
All trends with AI point up and to the right, and usually pretty sharply. …
AI Makes Liquid Cooling Normal – And Necessary – Again was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED POST: Google’s Gemini at Work digital event took place on September 24 – and you can register to watch the highlights on demand. …
Where AI Meets Everyday Business Apps was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
One of the oldest ideas in humanity – and one that may have predated language as we know it – is that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. …
Intel And AMD Make X Less Of A Variable For X86 Processors was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Brijesh Tripathi’s early career took him on a path that wound through Nvidia to Apple to Tesla to Zoox – an autonomous driving company now a subsidiary of Amazon. …
Startup FlexAI Wants To Make AI Compute Accessible to All was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED FEATURE: There’s no doubt that generative AI (GenAI) is a revolutionary technology which has the power to fundamentally change the way we all work. …
An Easy Route To AI-Enhanced Productivity was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If there is any market on Earth that is sorely in need of intense some competition, it is the datacenter GPU market that is driving the AI revolution. …
AMD Gives Nvidia Some Serious Heat In GPU Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you are looking to upgrade your X86 server fleet – and there is lots of chatter about how many enterprises as well as hyperscalers and cloud builders are in the financial mood to do that – then the good news is that both Intel and AMD have now rolled out the best serial compute engines they have ever fielded. …
AMD Turns The Screws With “Turin” Server CPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED POST: This year’s Super Computing conference (SC24) will feature a strong presence from Lenovo as the company showcases its High Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) portfolio. …
How HPC Is Cooler – Literally was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
Back in the day, when the AI revolution was young, Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer used to make the rounds with each new generation of datacenter GPUs and provide the first DGX systems based on any particular GPU to marquee customers. …
Taiwan’s Fastest AI Supercomputer Goes To Foxconn was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
To a certain extent, all of the major HPC centers in the world live in the future. …
The Stepping Stones In America To Exascale And Beyond was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
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The Future Of Security: Harnessing AI And Storage For Smarter Protection was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
The AI boom is going sonic, and it looks like we had all better cover our ears if we want to be able to hear by the end of the holiday season if the prognostications of the box counters at IDC are correct. …
Datacenter Infrastructure Spending Is Up, And Forecasts Are Even Higher was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.