Maybe Intel chief executive officer Pat Gelsinger has spent too much time at EMC and VMware. …
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Intel To Set Its FPGA Unit Free To Pursue Its Own Path was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If there is one thing that is absolutely immune from inflationary curbs and that is, to a certain degree, also contributing to inflationary pressures in the global economy, it is generative AI. …
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The AI Boom Props Up Datacenter Infrastructure Spending was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Other than Hewlett Packard Enterprise, who wants to build the future NERSC-10 supercomputer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory or the future OLCF-6 system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory? …
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The First Peeks At The DOE Post-Exascale Supercomputers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
One of the reasons why we have been watching Nutanix since it dropped out of stealth mode in August 2011, two years after being founded, because we had a hunch that the upstart maker of a server-storage half-blood than banned the SAN from the datacenter would transform itself into a platform. …
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Finally: The Roadmap To Profits For Nutanix was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There is something about late September. Nvidia was founded 30 years ago on Tuesday this week, Google was founded 25 years ago on Wednesday, and Supermicro was founded 30 years ago today. …
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Supermicro At 30: From Designing AI Chips To Selling AI Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED POST: Intel’s flagship technology event – Intel Innovation – took place at the San Jose Convention Center in California earlier this month, with select content available on demand from September 27th for those who were unable to attend in-person. …
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The Geek is back! Everything you missed at the Intel Innovation Conference was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED FEATURE: A sharp new tool being used more and more by creative enterprise IT teams, generative AI, has the potential to enable major advances in the way an enterprise conducts its business. …
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Bringing AI To Reality was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
Back in 2009, I was the editor of a mini-side publication from supercomputing magazine, HPCwire, called HPC in the Cloud. …
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Sky-High Hurdles, Clouded Judgements for IaaS at Exascale was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.
There are a lot of pressures on the datacenter network these days just to deal with expanding data and the increasing use of microservices architectures for modern applications. …
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AI Means Re-Architecting The Datacenter Network was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We said it from the beginning: There is no way that Meta Platforms, the originator of the Open Compute Project, wanted to buy a complete supercomputer system from Nvidia in order to advance its AI research and move newer large language models and recommendation engines into production. …
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Meta Platforms Is Determined To Make Ethernet Work For AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We’ve been watching Julia, an HPC-oriented programming language designed for technical and scientific computing for a number of years to see it can make inroads into supercomputing. …
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Julia Still Not Grown Up Enough to Ride Exascale Train was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.
It takes big money as well as big ideas to compete in the generative AI space. …
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The Least Crazy And Least Mean GenAI Model Will Win was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Although our appetite for a vast range of AI accelerators appears to be waning, or at least condensing down to a few options, there might be methods on the horizon to let accelerator designers explore new concepts in an interesting way. …
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What Happens When LLMs Design AI Accelerators? was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.
Based on what Intel has been saying for the past several weeks in various events, but especially the Hot Chips 2023 a few weeks ago and the more recent Intel Innovation 2023 extravaganza, the company’s foundry process roadmap and its server processor roadmaps are going to align harmoniously to make the Xeon SP family of CPUs more competitive next year. …
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Intel Gets Its Chiplets In Order With 6th Gen Xeon SPs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When it comes to natural disasters, every second counts—and the clock may just be ticking a little slower following a collaboration between Terra Quantum and Honda Research Institute Europe (HRI-EU). …
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Beyond the Traveling Salesman: Escape Routes Get a Quantum Overhaul was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.
At SC23 in November, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) will give out its first-ever ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling at a ceremony in Denver. …
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The Race for the First Gordon Bell Climate Supercomputing Prize was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.
The U.S. Department of Defense has announced a slew of states are set to split $238 million in funding from the “Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act.” …
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Hub and Spoke: DoD Splits $238 Million Across Eight Semiconductor Centers was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.
Scientists from KAUST and engineers from Cerebras Systems have fine-tuned an existing algorithm, Tile Low-Rank Matrix-Vector Multiplications (TLR-MVM), to improve the speed and accuracy of seismic data processing. …
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Seismic Data Processing on Waferscale Has Gordon Bell Prize Potential was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.
If you have the entire corpus of the Internet scrubbed of nonsense plus whatever else you can scrounge up in whatever language all put into the right format so you can chew on that data one token at a time with trillions of parameters of interconnections between those tokens to build a large language model for generative AI applications, you have an enormous problem. …
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SambaNova Tackles Generative AI With New Chip And New Approach was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Semiconductor Climate Consortium (SCC) is a collaborative effort aimed at significantly curbing the carbon emissions of the semiconductor industry. …
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Does the Semiconductor Industry Really Have a Path to Net Zero? was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.