The best kinds of research are those that test new ideas and that also lead to practical innovations in real products. …
A Peek Into The Future Of AI Inference At Nvidia was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sponsored Feature: Back in the old days, there was a CPU and chip designers crammed everything into that single CPU, which made sense for the greatest number of customers offset against the additional cost of adding extra functionality. …
The Age Of Acceleration Engines was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
It was a reasonable enough gut reaction given the many changes happening at Intel in recent months. …
Finally: Some Good News For The Intel Xeon CPU Roadmap was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We could have a long, thoughtful, and important conversation about the way AI is transforming the world. …
Cerebras Smashes AI Wide Open, Countering Hypocrites was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED: Ransomware may currently be the biggest bogeyman for cybersecurity pros, law enforcement, and governments, but it shouldn’t divert us from more traditional, but still very disruptive threats. …
DDoS DNS attacks are old-school, unsophisticated … and they’re back was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
Disaggregation means a lot of things, but the one thing that it most certainly does not mean is that every little thing in a system necessarily has to be smashed apart and then put back together in a composable ways. …
Enfabrica Converges Extended Memory And I/O Down To One Chip was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED: For nearly 150 years, we’ve been doing our best to squeeze messages into light. …
Pushing the boundaries of web-scale optical DCI performance was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
Similar to interior designers trying to fit the chairs, tables, and other furniture in rooms inside of a home, chip designers have to figure out where the various bits and pieces of a processor will lie on confined floor plans where latency between parts matters. …
The Dream Of Placing Blocks On Chip Designs With AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED: The value of great engineering is often overlooked, yet almost every object we use on a daily basis has been meticulously designed and tested by somebody somewhere to deliver the best possible performance and meet exacting cost and efficiency requirements. …
Power to the engineering people was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
Containers are still the hot new technology in the datacenter to some, but many of the pieces and parts that eventually would find their way into today’s container platforms have long-since been used by enterprises and developers thanks to Docker. …
Docker Helped Invent Containers, And Is Now Reinventing Itself was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
There is some chatter – some might call it well-informed speculation – going on out there on the Intertubes that Japanese system maker NEC is shutting down its “Aurora” Vector Engine vector processor business. …
Is This The End Of The Line For NEC Vector Supercomputers? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Every year, a fairly large portion of the several tens of millions of servers running in the world needs to be replaced because the cost of using the old machinery can be higher than buying in the new machinery – and this can be true even if the old kit is entirely paid for and completely depreciated. …
More Power To You – Energy Efficiently was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If quantum computers are going to become a commercial thing sometime down the road – and there’s a lot of money and time going into the effort to make them viable for use by HPC organizations and enterprises – it’s increasingly likely that it will be in combination with classical computers. …
Preparing For Upcoming Hybrid Classical-Quantum Compute was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Last May, after we had done a deep dive on the “Hopper” H100 GPU accelerator architecture and as we were trying to reckon what Nvidia could charge for the PCI-Express and SXM5 variants of the GH100, we said that Nvidia needed to launch a Hopper-Hopper superchip. …
Nvidia’s Four Workhorses Of The AI Inference Revolution was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Nvidia is not rich enough – or dumb enough – to build a cloud to rival the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud. …
Nvidia Bends The Clouds To Its Own Financial Will was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Like the rest of the world, we have been watching Microsoft’s increasing use of foundation models as it transforms its services and software. …
Inside The Infrastructure That Microsoft Builds To Run AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For many years, and quite a long time ago in computer time, Hadoop was seen as the best way to store and analyze mountains of unstructured data. …
Taking Another Stab At Massively Parallel Data Analytics was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
HOT SEAT INTERVIEW: Will your smartphone break if you drop it? …
HPC in the cloud for FEA was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
Sponsored Post: As in so many other aspects of life, not all compute workloads are created equal – they need a more subtle approach to getting the best out of them which brings a more potent balance of hardware and software into the mix. …
The workload-first approach to CPU innovation was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
High performance computing workloads simulating all manner of things can produce a veritable mountain of data that has to be sifted through. …
Los Alamos Taps Seagate To Put Compute On Spinning Rust was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.