You’d be forgiven for thinking the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC24) was a global AI-specific event this year. …
NSF Comes to SC24 With Money Map, AI Blueprint was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.
When Fidelma Russo looks at Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s GreenLake, she sees a rapidly expanding platform that like others is trying to keep pace not only with the growing demands of organizations that are continuing to adopt the cloud but also are looking for ways to bring in and deploy emerging AI technologies. …
HPE GreenLake Platform Gets Expanded Storage And Custom KVM Hypervisor was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
COMMISSIONED What’s holding back the next big breakthrough in AI – processing power or the infrastructure supporting it? …
Scaling The AI Frontier And Powering The Future Of Innovation was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We have said it before, and we will say it again as everyone is chewing on the financial results that Nvidia just turned in for its third quarter of fiscal 2025 ended in October. …
Nvidia Datacenter Revenues Still Booming, “Blackwell” Platforms On Track was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As far as we have been concerned since founding The Next Platform literally a decade ago this week, AI training and inference in the datacenter are a kind of HPC. …
HPC Market Bigger Than Expected, And Growing Faster was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Every couple of years, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory gets to install the world’s fastest supercomputer. …
“El Capitan” Supercomputer Blazes The Trail for Converged CPU-GPU Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There has been a lot more churn on the November Top500 supercomputer rankings that is the talk of the SC24 conference in Atlanta this week than there was in the list that came out in June at the ISC24 conference in Hamburg, Germany back in May, and there are some interesting developments in the new machinery that is being installed. …
AMD Now Has More Compute On The Top500 Than Nvidia was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and Los Alamos National Laboratory are known by the shorthand “Tri-Labs” in the HPC community, but these HPC centers perhaps could be called “Try-Labs” because they historically have tried just about any new architecture to see what promise it might hold in advancing the missions of the US Department of Energy. …
Sandia To Push Both HPC And AI With Cerebras “Kingfisher” Cluster was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Welcome to the second part in our series of chats with J Metz, chair of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium. …
UEC Doesn’t Want To Kill InfiniBand, But It Wants Ethernet To Beat It was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you want to sell a lot of hardware to support AI workloads, then the best way to do that is to convince every country on Earth that AI is so important that they must have a lot of it within their borders. …
How Convenient: Every Country Needs AI Sovereignty was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Any time you can get a lot of companies with very technically adept and strongly opinionated people to work together on a problem, or a set of problems, then you know for a fact that there is a real problem. …
The Collaboration That Will Drive Ethernet Into The HPC And AI Future was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Anyone who thinks that Intel is easy to kill need look no further than the historical trends of the Mercury Research market share statistics that we see each quarter. …
The Server Recession Ends, And Both Intel And AMD Won was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
COMMISSIONED As the AI era unfolds, I have been reflecting on my journey in the tech industry. …
AI Workloads Are Changing IT Demands At The Edge was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sponsored Feature Arm is starting to fulfill its promise of transforming the nature of compute in the datacenter, and it is getting some big help from traditional chip makers as well as the hyperscalers and cloud builders that have massive computing requirements and who also need to drive efficiency up and costs down each and every year. …
Custom Arm CPUs Drive Many Different AI Approaches In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For most of the history of high performance computing, a supercomputer was a freestanding, isolated machine that was designed to run some simulation or model and the only link it needed to the outside world was a relatively small one to show some visualization. …
The Back End AI Network Puts Pressure On The Front End was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Generative AI is still very much an emerging technology and it’s morphing and evolving rapidly, as is illustrated with the trend toward agentic AI, which we’ve written about previously. …
Cisco Puts Big AI Infrastructure Into Small Packages was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
COMMISSIONED In the fast-paced world of AI, GPUs are often hailed as the quiet powerhouse driving innovation. …
Stop Bottlenecking Your AI: Storage Hacks for Hungry GPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There are lots of ways that we might build out the memory capacity and memory bandwidth of compute engines to drive AI and HPC workloads better than we have been able to do thus far. …
We Can’t Get Enough HBM, Or Stack It Up High Enough was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Think of it as the ultimate offload model.
One of the geniuses of the cloud – perhaps the central genius – is that a big company that would have a large IT budget, perhaps on the order of hundreds of millions of dollars per year, and that has a certain amount of expertise creates a much, much larger IT organization with billions of dollars – and with AI now tens of billions of dollars – in investments and rents out the vast majority of that capacity to third parties, who essentially allow that original cloud builder to get their own IT operations for close to free. …
You Are Paying The Clouds To Build Better AI Than They Will Rent You was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is beginning to look like chip maker Intel hit the bottom in its products and foundry businesses in the second quarter of this year and that revenues are slowly – we won’t go so far as to say surely – improving. …
Intel Takes The Big Restructuring Hits As It Looks Ahead was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.