If there is any market on Earth that is sorely in need of intense some competition, it is the datacenter GPU market that is driving the AI revolution. …
AMD Gives Nvidia Some Serious Heat In GPU Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you are looking to upgrade your X86 server fleet – and there is lots of chatter about how many enterprises as well as hyperscalers and cloud builders are in the financial mood to do that – then the good news is that both Intel and AMD have now rolled out the best serial compute engines they have ever fielded. …
AMD Turns The Screws With “Turin” Server CPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED POST: This year’s Super Computing conference (SC24) will feature a strong presence from Lenovo as the company showcases its High Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) portfolio. …
How HPC Is Cooler – Literally was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
Back in the day, when the AI revolution was young, Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer used to make the rounds with each new generation of datacenter GPUs and provide the first DGX systems based on any particular GPU to marquee customers. …
Taiwan’s Fastest AI Supercomputer Goes To Foxconn was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
To a certain extent, all of the major HPC centers in the world live in the future. …
The Stepping Stones In America To Exascale And Beyond was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
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The Future Of Security: Harnessing AI And Storage For Smarter Protection was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
The AI boom is going sonic, and it looks like we had all better cover our ears if we want to be able to hear by the end of the holiday season if the prognostications of the box counters at IDC are correct. …
Datacenter Infrastructure Spending Is Up, And Forecasts Are Even Higher was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Intel recently demonstrated a new type of DIMM memory technology called Multiplexer Combined Rank (MCR), also referred to as MRDIMMs, that provides up to 2.3X better performance for HPC workloads and up to a 2X better on AI inference workloads in comparison to 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors, based on internal Intel analysis. …
How MCR Memory Can More Than Double HPC And AI Performance was written by Rob Farber at The Next Platform.
Over the past two years, enterprises have tried to keep up with the staggering pace of the innovation with generative AI, mapping out ways to implement the emerging technology into their operations in hopes of saving time and money, increasing productivity, improving customer service and support, and driving efficiencies. …
Accenture Melds Smarts And Wares With Nvidia For Agentic AI Push was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Waferscale compute engine and AI system maker Cerebras Systems has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to sell a chunk of itself to the public, giving we outsiders a view of the past two and a half years of its internal financials. …
Cerebras Needs Wall Street To Expand Beyond One Core Customer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
No one like the R word, but we don’t shy away from data and calling it like we see it. …
Even As Bandwidth Needs Explode, Ethernet Spending Is In Recession was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED POST: The 2024 edition of Lenovo Tech World promises an in-depth discussion on the future of innovation centered on AI and computing. …
How hybrid IT is a reality for everyone was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
Like many a decade ago, we were enthusiastic about the prospect of triple-hybrid systems in the datacenter. …
Altera Is Being Realistic About FPGA Compute In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
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Balancing Innovation And Responsibility With AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
You know what the hardest thing about building an AI system is? …
Tecton Moves Mountains Of Data To AI Models Automagically was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Intel has been talking about its “Granite Rapids” Xeon 6 processors for so long that it would be easy to forget that they have not yet been formally announced. …
Intel Shoots “Granite Rapids” Xeon 6 Into The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Neither scientific progress nor the budgetary process can wait for compute engine and interconnect roadmaps. …
A GPU Upgrade For “Leonardo” Supercomputer But Not A Budget Upgrade was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When you need to provide electricity to power and cool 100,000 accelerators, or maybe even 1 million of them in a few years, in a single location to run an AI model, you have to start thinking about the unthinkable if you also want to use carbon-free juice to power your AI ambitions. …
AI Powerhouses Choose The Nuclear Option was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
UPDATED With its Graviton 4 homegrown Graviton 4 Arm server processors, Amazon Web Services has put into the field a CPU that can compete with all but the toppest of bin parts from AMD for X86 CPUs and Ampere Computing and Nvidia for Arm CPUs, and it is driving price/performance that will in turn drive their adoption for Amazon’s various business units and for its IT infrastructure rental customers on AWS. …
AWS Boosts Memory Capacity On Graviton 4 Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Intel needs a whole lot of big wins for both its chip design and selling business and its increasingly arm’s length foundry business if it is going to turn itself around and be competitive with AMD and Nvidia on the left hand and with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co on its right. …
The Irony Of AWS Being Intel’s Latest Savior was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.