Current US president Joe Biden and once and future president Donald Trump do not agree on much. …
US Curbs HBM Exports To China – More For The Rest Of Us was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Just because you are the number one supplier of servers, storage, and PCs in the world does not mean the job of building those machines and making money is easy. …
Fat Server Spending Props Up Slowing AI Servers At Dell was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you want to buy an exascale-class supercomputer, or a portion of one so you can scale up, there are not a lot of places to go shopping because there are not a lot of companies who have a balance sheet that is big enough to get all of the parts to build the machines. …
HPE Upgrades Supercomputer Lineup Top To Bottom In 2025 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Speeds and feeds are great, but hardware is only as useful as the software that can harness it, and, for AMD, that’s the ROCm software stack. …
AMD ROCm 6.3 Has Goodies For AI Aficionados And HPC Gurus Alike was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.
PARTNER CONTENT Since OpenAI first released ChatGPT into the world two years ago, generative AI has been a playground mostly for GPUs and primarily those from Nvidia, even though graphics chips from others and AI-focused silicon have tried to make their way in. …
Intel Xeon 6 With P-Cores Makes the Case For The Host CPU was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If Amazon is going to make you pay for the custom AI advantage that it wants to build over rivals Google and Microsoft, then it needs to have the best models possible running on its homegrown accelerators. …
Anthropic And OpenAI Show Why Musk Should Build A Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Like all auto manufacturers, Ford is pursuing what can only be described as a profound digital transformation. …
Ford Lead Says HPC, GPUs, AI Are Keys to Driving Progress was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.
Intel was the first of the major CPU makers to add HBM stacked DRAM memory to a CPU package, with the “Sapphire Rapids” Max Series Xeon 5 processors, but with the “Granite Rapids” Xeon 6, Intel abandoned the use of HBM memory in favor of what it would hope would be more main stream MCR DDR5 main memory, which has multiplexed ranks to boost bandwidth by nearly 2X over regular DDR5 memory. …
Microsoft Is First To Get HBM-Juiced AMD CPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
You’d be forgiven for thinking the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC24) was a global AI-specific event this year. …
NSF Comes to SC24 With Money Map, AI Blueprint was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.
When Fidelma Russo looks at Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s GreenLake, she sees a rapidly expanding platform that like others is trying to keep pace not only with the growing demands of organizations that are continuing to adopt the cloud but also are looking for ways to bring in and deploy emerging AI technologies. …
HPE GreenLake Platform Gets Expanded Storage And Custom KVM Hypervisor was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
COMMISSIONED What’s holding back the next big breakthrough in AI – processing power or the infrastructure supporting it? …
Scaling The AI Frontier And Powering The Future Of Innovation was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We have said it before, and we will say it again as everyone is chewing on the financial results that Nvidia just turned in for its third quarter of fiscal 2025 ended in October. …
Nvidia Datacenter Revenues Still Booming, “Blackwell” Platforms On Track was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As far as we have been concerned since founding The Next Platform literally a decade ago this week, AI training and inference in the datacenter are a kind of HPC. …
HPC Market Bigger Than Expected, And Growing Faster was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Every couple of years, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory gets to install the world’s fastest supercomputer. …
“El Capitan” Supercomputer Blazes The Trail for Converged CPU-GPU Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There has been a lot more churn on the November Top500 supercomputer rankings that is the talk of the SC24 conference in Atlanta this week than there was in the list that came out in June at the ISC24 conference in Hamburg, Germany back in May, and there are some interesting developments in the new machinery that is being installed. …
AMD Now Has More Compute On The Top500 Than Nvidia was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and Los Alamos National Laboratory are known by the shorthand “Tri-Labs” in the HPC community, but these HPC centers perhaps could be called “Try-Labs” because they historically have tried just about any new architecture to see what promise it might hold in advancing the missions of the US Department of Energy. …
Sandia To Push Both HPC And AI With Cerebras “Kingfisher” Cluster was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Welcome to the second part in our series of chats with J Metz, chair of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium. …
UEC Doesn’t Want To Kill InfiniBand, But It Wants Ethernet To Beat It was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you want to sell a lot of hardware to support AI workloads, then the best way to do that is to convince every country on Earth that AI is so important that they must have a lot of it within their borders. …
How Convenient: Every Country Needs AI Sovereignty was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Any time you can get a lot of companies with very technically adept and strongly opinionated people to work together on a problem, or a set of problems, then you know for a fact that there is a real problem. …
The Collaboration That Will Drive Ethernet Into The HPC And AI Future was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Anyone who thinks that Intel is easy to kill need look no further than the historical trends of the Mercury Research market share statistics that we see each quarter. …
The Server Recession Ends, And Both Intel And AMD Won was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.