The tech world is awash with generative AI, which for a company like Nvidia, is a good thing. …
There’s Still A Long Way To Go With Generative AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Google is a big company with thousands of researchers and tens of thousands of software engineers, who all hold their own opinions about what AI means to the future of business and the future of their own jobs and ours. …
Missing The Moat With AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
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How HPC and Amazon EC2 Hpc6a Instances Are Accelerating Engineering Innovation was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
When it comes to an economy, you get what we collectively expect. …
AMD Says AI Is The Number One Priority Right Now was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Back in the dawn of time, which is four decades ago in computer science and which was before technical computing went mainstream with the advent of Unix workstations and their beefy server cousins, the computer science students we knew at college had taught themselves BASIC on either TRS-80s or Commodore VICs and they went to college to learn something useful like COBOL and maybe got a smattering of C and Pascal, or occasionally even RPG, for variety. …
The Skills Gap For Fortran Looms Large In HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For Arista Networks, the poster-child of hyperscaler and cloud build networking that, more than any other vendor, has championed merchant silicon and Linux as the basis of a modular network operating system, 2022 was a bumper crop year. …
After The 2022 Bump, Arista Is Back To The Grind In 2023 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In the absence of hard numbers, we have never been shy about making estimates because educated guesses is all you sometimes have to make a decision or to derive some kind of insight. …
Just How Big Are Nvidia’s Server And Networking Businesses? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
While not perfectly elastic in the economic sense, where there is a linear relationship between price and volume, we have always contended that the relationship between the price of IT infrastructure and its cost are reasonably elastic. …
Of Course AWS Revenues Are Slowing And Profits Are Pinched was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Intel can talk all it wants about how it beat its own expectations or those of Wall Street, but the fact remains that the first quarter of 2023 was downright ugly for the chip designer and maker. …
The Beginning Of The Bottom For Intel’s Datacenter Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Variety is not only the spice of life, it is also the way to drive innovation and to mitigate risk. …
Broadcom Takes On InfiniBand With Jericho3-AI Switch Chips was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Companies have been working for years to pull together block, file, and object storage under a single umbrella, giving enterprises that are at times dealing with petabytes of data spread across datacenters, the cloud, and the edge a simpler way to manage, organize, and access all that information. …
The Pure Unification Of Block And File Storage was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The heady, exciting days of ChatGPT and other generative AI and large-language models (LLMs) is beginning to give way to the understanding that enterprises will need to get a tight grasp on how these models are being used in their operations or they will risk privacy, security, legal, and other problems down the road. …
Keeping Large Language Models From Running Off The Rails was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Every three years or so, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co has a personal recession. …
The Chips Are Down For TSMC, But Not For Long was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If Big Blue is going to talk the hybrid cloud and AI talk, as it seems to do incessantly, then the company has to walk it. …
IBM Starts Walking The Hybrid Cloud And AI Talking was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Two decades ago, all the chip makers, including Intel, had to buy Unix machines, usually massive ranks of Sparc/Solaris systems, to do electronic design automation to design and test their chip designs. …
Accelerating Chip Design With GPUs, And Adding AI To Push It Further was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
If the HPC community didn’t write the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1996, it would have been necessary to invent it. …
Nuclear Weapons Drove Supercomputing, And May Now Drive It Into The Clouds was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, one of the key facilities of the US Department of Energy that drives supercomputing innovation and that spends big bucks so at least a few vendors will design and build them, has opened up the bidding on its future NERSC-10 exascale-class supercomputer. …
Berkeley Lab Opens Bidding For Future NERSC-10 Exascale System was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We will always complain about the weather. It is part of the human condition. …
Climate Simulation Screams On The Frontier Exascale Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you are a Global 20,000 company and you want to build a large language model that is specifically tuned to your business, the first thing you need is a corpus of your own textual data on which to train that LLM. …
Where Financial Models Meet Large Language Models was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED POST Over the past decade, the heat generated by server CPUs has increased by 3.5X and now is pushing 500 watts. …
Energy Efficiency Pays Its Way In The Datacenter was written by Elyse at The Next Platform.