Intel recently demonstrated a new type of DIMM memory technology called Multiplexer Combined Rank (MCR), also referred to as MRDIMMs, that provides up to 2.3X better performance for HPC workloads and up to a 2X better on AI inference workloads in comparison to 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors, based on internal Intel analysis. …
How MCR Memory Can More Than Double HPC And AI Performance was written by Rob Farber at The Next Platform.
Over the past two years, enterprises have tried to keep up with the staggering pace of the innovation with generative AI, mapping out ways to implement the emerging technology into their operations in hopes of saving time and money, increasing productivity, improving customer service and support, and driving efficiencies. …
Accenture Melds Smarts And Wares With Nvidia For Agentic AI Push was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Waferscale compute engine and AI system maker Cerebras Systems has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to sell a chunk of itself to the public, giving we outsiders a view of the past two and a half years of its internal financials. …
Cerebras Needs Wall Street To Expand Beyond One Core Customer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
No one like the R word, but we don’t shy away from data and calling it like we see it. …
Even As Bandwidth Needs Explode, Ethernet Spending Is In Recession was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED POST: The 2024 edition of Lenovo Tech World promises an in-depth discussion on the future of innovation centered on AI and computing. …
How hybrid IT is a reality for everyone was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
Like many a decade ago, we were enthusiastic about the prospect of triple-hybrid systems in the datacenter. …
Altera Is Being Realistic About FPGA Compute In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
COMMISSIONED: Robust data governance is key to ethical, compliant, and efficient AI projects. …
Balancing Innovation And Responsibility With AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
You know what the hardest thing about building an AI system is? …
Tecton Moves Mountains Of Data To AI Models Automagically was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Intel has been talking about its “Granite Rapids” Xeon 6 processors for so long that it would be easy to forget that they have not yet been formally announced. …
Intel Shoots “Granite Rapids” Xeon 6 Into The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Neither scientific progress nor the budgetary process can wait for compute engine and interconnect roadmaps. …
A GPU Upgrade For “Leonardo” Supercomputer But Not A Budget Upgrade was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When you need to provide electricity to power and cool 100,000 accelerators, or maybe even 1 million of them in a few years, in a single location to run an AI model, you have to start thinking about the unthinkable if you also want to use carbon-free juice to power your AI ambitions. …
AI Powerhouses Choose The Nuclear Option was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
UPDATED With its Graviton 4 homegrown Graviton 4 Arm server processors, Amazon Web Services has put into the field a CPU that can compete with all but the toppest of bin parts from AMD for X86 CPUs and Ampere Computing and Nvidia for Arm CPUs, and it is driving price/performance that will in turn drive their adoption for Amazon’s various business units and for its IT infrastructure rental customers on AWS. …
AWS Boosts Memory Capacity On Graviton 4 Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Intel needs a whole lot of big wins for both its chip design and selling business and its increasingly arm’s length foundry business if it is going to turn itself around and be competitive with AMD and Nvidia on the left hand and with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co on its right. …
The Irony Of AWS Being Intel’s Latest Savior was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The concrete has been poured and the first containers that will house the exascale-class “Jupiter” system at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany are being lifted into place for the modular datacenter that will be the home of the massive machine. …
Thinking Outside Of The Box With The Jupiter Supercomputer Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
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.
Despite a slow start several years ago, Oracle has refashioned itself into a cloud builder, rapidly expanding its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to make it among the top second-tier providers, although still well behind the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. …
Oracle Puts AI, Automation Between Its Cloud And the Bad Guys was written by Jeffrey Burt 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.