The introduction of writing and agriculture were watershed events for humanity, and are forever interlinked. …
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The Value Of Thinking And Creating On The Asymptote To Zero was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Data is by its nature a messy beast, and it has only become more so as workloads have found their way out of the datacenter and into the cloud and even all the way out to the edge. …
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Hammering Out A Logical File System And A DNS For Data was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.
Four years ago, Google engineers boasted of achieving “quantum supremacy” following experiments that showed its 53-qubit Sycamore quantum system solving problems that classical supercomputers either can’t or take a very long time to accomplish. …
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Google Gives A Peek At What A Quantum Computer Can Do was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
We learn a lot of lessons from the hyperscalers and HPC centers of the world, and one of them is that those who control their own software control their own fates. …
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The Balancing Act Of Training Generative AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
IBM announced its Watsonx software development stack back in May, and today it is starting to ship it to customers. …
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Enterprises Are Not Going To Miss The Fourth Wave Of AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Red Hat has once again dropped another huge boulder into the normally serene – or at least relatively calm – open source waters. …
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Linux Is The Next Platform, But Who Pays To Maintain It? was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
If Nvidia and AMD are licking their lips thinking about all of the GPUs they can sell to Microsoft to support its huge aspirations in generative AI – particularly when it comes to the OpenAI GPT large language model that is the centerpiece of all of the company’s future software and services – they had better think again. …
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Microsoft’s Chiplet Cloud To Bring The Cost Of LLMs Way Down was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois just fired up its Delta system back in April 2022, and now it has just been given $10 million by the National Science Foundation to expand that machine with an AI partition, called DeltaAI appropriately enough, that is based on Nvidia’s “Hopper” H100 GPU accelerators. …
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NCSA Builds Out Delta Supercomputer With An AI Extension was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The cloud has been a boon for enterprises trying to manage the massive amounts of data they collect every year. …
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Giving Cloud Data Warehouses A Relational Knowledge Graph Overlay was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The question is no longer whether or not the “El Capitan” supercomputer that has been in the process of being installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for the past week – with photographic evidence to prove it – will be the most powerful system in the world. …
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Lining Up The “El Capitan” Supercomputer Against The AI Upstarts was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When system architects sit down to design their next platforms, they start by looking at a bunch of roadmaps from suppliers of CPUs, accelerators, memory, flash, network interface cards – and PCI-Express controllers and switches. …
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PCI-Express Must Match The Cadence Of Compute Engines And Networks was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Here’s a fun question and don’t cheat by asking ChatGPT. What is more valuable, an ounce of gold or an ounce of an Nvidia “Hopper” H100 GPU accelerator? …
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AI To The Rescue For Server And Storage Spending In Q1 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you want to get the attention of server makers and compute engine providers and especially if you are going to be building GPU-laden clusters with shiny new gear to drive AI training and possibly AI inference for large language models and recommendation engines, the first thing you need is $1 billion. …
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The $1 Billion And Higher Ante To Play The AI Game was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There is no shortage of silicon photonics technologies under development, and every few months it seems like another startup crops up promising massive bandwidth, over longer distances, while using less power than copper interconnects. …
Photonics To Make Celestial HBM3 Memory Fabric was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.
The hype around generative AI is making every industry vibrate at an increasingly high pitch in a way that we have not seen since the days of the Dot Com boom and sock puppets. …
With Huge Costs, Efficiency Is The Key To Mainstreaming Generative AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
When it comes to a lot of high performance computing systems we have seen over the decades, we are fond of saying that the hardware is the easy part. …
Argonne Aurora A21: All’s Well That Ends Better was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It was a fortuitous coincidence that Nvidia was already working on massively parallel GPU compute engines for doing calculations in HPC simulations and models when the machine learning tipping point happened, and similarly, it was fortunate for InfiniBand that it had the advantage of high bandwidth, low latency, and remote direct memory access across GPUs at that same moment. …
Cisco Guns For InfiniBand With Silicon One G200 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
To Andrew Davidson, senior vice president of products at MongoDB, the database business operates in an entirely different type of market than traditional software, where vendors might sell their products into one organization after another, eventually reaching a saturation point. …
Beefing Up A Cloudy NoSQL Database To Ride The AI Wave was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
When it comes to deploying Arm in the cloud, a lot of the talk of late has centered on things like efficiency, core density, or predictability of performance. …
Move Over X86, Amazon’s Arm HPC instances Are Live was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.
If the datacenter is the computer – and it certainly is for hundreds of companies comprising somewhere well north of half of server sales worldwide – then the Ethernet fabric, consisting of switches and routers, is the backplane of that computer. …
Ethernet Switching Still Booming As Routing Soldiers On was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.