Ethernet Doesn’t Defy The Recession, It Denies It
If there is a recession underway – and we are not convinced that there is even a little bit – then the Ethernet switch market did not get the memo. …
Ethernet Doesn’t Defy The Recession, It Denies It was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Deutsche Bank Tag Teams With Nvidia On Financial Services AI
In many industries, embracing AI in the application software stack it is not just a matter of training some large language models or recommender systems against general and then specific datasets and plugging it in. …
Deutsche Bank Tag Teams With Nvidia On Financial Services AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For HPE, The Cloud Is A Private And A Public Matter
Three years ago, Hewlett Packard Enterprise was the first major hardware and software infrastructure vendor to announce plans to make its entire portfolio available as a service, setting 2022 as the deadline for making that happen. …
For HPE, The Cloud Is A Private And A Public Matter was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
CXL from promise to reality with real silicon on customer platforms
Sponsored Post: We all know that inferencing and training AI models needs a lot of CPU muscle, but we don’t necessarily appreciate how important other components are in supporting AI and ML applications. …
CXL from promise to reality with real silicon on customer platforms was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
Can Anyone Make Money From Modern Storage?
In the past three decades, there has been no shortage of companies with interesting ideas to solve very specific data storage and retrieval problems associated with high performance computing in some form or another. …
Can Anyone Make Money From Modern Storage? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Just How Bad Is CXL Memory Latency?
Conventional wisdom says that trying to attach system memory to the PCI-Express bus is a bad idea if you care at all about latency. …
Just How Bad Is CXL Memory Latency? was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.
Intel Chip Research Pushes Power Efficiency And Performance
Since Pat Gelsinger’s return to Intel as chief executive officer in early 2021, the company has bet big on bolstering its manufacturing processes and foundry business, expanded its fab footprint in the United States, and advocated for expanding the country’s chip making capabilities. …
Intel Chip Research Pushes Power Efficiency And Performance was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
AWS Tunes Up Compute And Network For HPC
When it comes to hardware, there was not a lot of big news coming out of the Amazon Web Services re:Invent 2022 conference this week. …
AWS Tunes Up Compute And Network For HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Counting The Cost Of Training Large Language Models
It has been becoming increasingly clear – anecdotally at least – just how expensive it is to train large language models and recommender systems, which are arguably the two most important workloads driving AI into the enterprise. …
Counting The Cost Of Training Large Language Models was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Talking Datacenter Computing With The CEOs Of AMD And Supermicro
Sponsored Feature: With every server CPU launch, component and system maker Supermicro always wants to be at the front of the line to offer its channel partners and large direct customer base the opportunity to get systems based on the hottest new technologies. …
Talking Datacenter Computing With The CEOs Of AMD And Supermicro was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Riding The Steadily Rising Enterprise IT Market
It is tough to get excited about mature markets that grow at a steady rate unless it happens to be the most profitable part of the market. …
Riding The Steadily Rising Enterprise IT Market was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Riding CXL Memory Up In A Down Economy
The jittery economy hasn’t been kind to most semiconductor companies, even those like AMD and Nvidia that are growing in the datacenter. …
Riding CXL Memory Up In A Down Economy was written by Dylan Martin at The Next Platform.
Datacenter Can Carry Nvidia Through The Rough Spots
After a decade and a half of ceaseless and focused work, Nvidia has created a modern compute platform, and a unique one at that. …
Datacenter Can Carry Nvidia Through The Rough Spots was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
US and EU Pushing Ahead With Exascale, China Efforts Remains Shrouded
The HPC industry, after years of discussions and anticipation and some relatively minor delays, is now fully in the era of exascale computing, with the United States earlier this year standing up Frontier, its first such supercomputer, and plans for two more next year. …
US and EU Pushing Ahead With Exascale, China Efforts Remains Shrouded was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Cerebras Wants Its Piece Of An Increasingly Heterogenous HPC World
Changing the compute paradigm in the datacenter, or even extending it or augmenting it in some fashion, is no easy task. …
Cerebras Wants Its Piece Of An Increasingly Heterogenous HPC World was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Clouded thinking that could be costing us
Sponsored Post: It could be time to start examining our growing reliance on public cloud platforms. …
Clouded thinking that could be costing us was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
HBM Gives Xeon SPs A Big Boost On Bandwidth Bound Work
If there is one bright spot in the Xeon SP server chip line from Intel, it is the version of the “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon SP processor that has HBM memory welded to it. …
HBM Gives Xeon SPs A Big Boost On Bandwidth Bound Work was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Dell Wants To Put HPC And Quantum Into More Hands
The need for high-powered computing isn’t going away. Enterprises trying to corral the massive amounts of data they’re generating and adopting emerging technologies like machine learning are demanding the sort of HPC capabilities that not too long ago were reserved for research and educational institutions. …
Dell Wants To Put HPC And Quantum Into More Hands was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Testing The Mettle Of The Top Supercomputing Iron On Earth
It’s fall, so that means it is the annual Super Computing conference that has been held in the United States by the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society since 1989. …
Testing The Mettle Of The Top Supercomputing Iron On Earth was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Why AMD “Genoa” Epyc Server CPUs Take The Heavyweight Title
The server CPU racket is not an easy one. It would be tough to find a more difficult business, and it gets harder to compete each year as computing becomes more and more focused at the hyperscalers and cloud builders, who demand the best for the least money. …
Why AMD “Genoa” Epyc Server CPUs Take The Heavyweight Title was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.