Everything looked normal. An audience of company executives and employees, journalists, and analysts staring at the brightly lit stage as the chief executive officer strode from one side to the other boasting of a chip’s performance and power efficiency, the advanced technologies that went into making it, and the marked advantages it held over the best the competition had to offer. …
The Acute Role Reversal For AMD And Intel In Datacenter Compute was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Sponsored Feature: It’s a decade and a half since researchers dazzled the tech world by demonstrating that GPUs could be used to dramatically accelerate key AI operations. …
With AI, You Need To See The Bigger Hardware And Software Picture was written by Joseph Martins at The Next Platform.
It is very rare for any of the major semiconductor suppliers of the world to ever admit that things are going wrong, even when we all know that they have been. …
One New Feature For Intel’s HPC Compute Engines: Contrition was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It’s no secret that the hyperscalers and cloud builders are becoming the biggest drivers of the datacenter hardware portion of the IT market. …
HPC Follows The Enterprise Into The Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
In the ongoing discussions about the still-evolving world of hybrid cloud, the focus tends to be on what enterprises are doing within their own on-premises datacenters – and private clouds – and their work with public cloud players like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. …
Co-Location Plays A Big Role In Hybrid Cloud, Too was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The industry is impatient for disaggregated and shared memory for a lot of reasons, and many system architects don’t want to wait until PCI-Express 6.0 or 7.0 transports are in the field and the CXL 3.0 and beyond protocols that ride on it to reach out to external memory have been tweaked to do proper sharing across servers. …
Mashing Up CXL And OpenCAPI For Shared Disaggregated Memory was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The advent of the Data Processing Unit or the I/O Processing Unit, or whatever you want to call it, was driven as much by economics as it was by architectural necessity. …
Economics And The Inevitability Of The DPU was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In case you haven’t figured it out yet, if you are not one of the hyperscalers or one of the biggest cloud builders, then you are a second class citizen, or maybe even third class, when it comes to the semiconductors that go into different part of the systems that run your organization. …
Cutting To The Front Of The Server CPU Line was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A massive buildout of infrastructure is happening within the datacenter walls of at least several of the hyperscalers and large clouds in the world if the financial results of Arista Networks, the upstart switch maker that has been taking on Cisco Systems in the datacenter with machines based on merchant silicon for more than a decade. …
Hyperscalers And Clouds Lift Arista Networks Sky High was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Red Hat is not just the top Linux software vendor and the driving force behind IBM’s hybrid cloud ambitions. …
Only The Agile And Adaptable Survive was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
If you are impatient for not just memory pooling powered by the CXL protocol, but the much more difficult task of memory sharing by servers attached to giant blocks of external memory, you are not alone. …
Mashing Up CXL And Gen-Z For Shared Disaggregated Memory was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
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Lenovo And UConn Use HPC And AI To Predict The Weather was written by James Hayes at The Next Platform.
It is the nature of big tech companies with near monopolies to start looking a bit like Rome in its Golden Age – the Pax Romana that held from when Augustus Caesar became emperor in 27 BC until Marcus Aurelius died in 180 AD. …
The Pax Chipzilla Is Over, And Intel Can’t Hold Back The Barbarians was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you follow the IT spending forecasts of IDC and Gartner, as we do with each revision, what you will notice is that spending forecasts are constantly changing as economic conditions change. …
Datacenter Is The Hot Spot In IT Spending In 2022 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
While AI training dims the lights at hyperscalers and cloud builders and costs billions of dollars a year, in the long run, there will be a whole lot more aggregate processing done on AI inference than on AI training. …
The Odious Comparisons Of GPU Inference Performance And Value was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Speaking in generalities across any aspect of history is always risky, but that is what the job of history is. …
The Ever-Reddening Revenue Streams Of Big Blue was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sponsored Post: Analyst firm Gartner believes AI will remain one of the top workloads driving infrastructure decisions through to 2023 as more organizations push pilot projects into the production stage. …
How Do You Meet The Bandwidth Demands Of HPC And AI System Architectures? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If there is one thing that is consistently true about HPC clusters for the past thirty years and for AI training systems for the past decade, it is as workloads grow, the network becomes increasingly important – and perhaps as important as packing as much flops in a node as physically and thermally makes sense. …
The Iron That Will Drive AI At Meta Platforms was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Big Blue was one of the system designers that caught the accelerator bug early and declared rather emphatically that, over the long haul, all kinds of high performance computing would have some sort of acceleration. …
IBM’s AI Accelerator: This Had Better Not Be Just A Science Project was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Selling hardware into the modern datacenter is no easy feat, particularly when the needs of hyperscalers and enterprises have long since diverged. …
Cisco Figures Out How To Sell Switches To Hyperscalers And Enterprises Alike was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.