Supermicro has become the latest of the big OEMs to add Arm-based systems to its portfolio, with the launch of its Mt. …
Supermicro Throws Its Weight Behind Arm Servers was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.
Intel has a lot at stake with its oneAPI software stack. …
oneAPI 2023: One Plug-In To Run Them All was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Two observations. One: When the world goes into recession, the server market has immediately followed. …
The World Is Still Hungry For Servers – For Now was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
What good is a floating point operation embodied in a vector or matrix unit if you can’t get data into fast enough to actually use the compute engine to process it in some fashion in a clock cycle? …
Compute Is Easy, Memory Is Harder And Harder was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The chief technology officers in the tech world have done their time in the engineering trenches, writing their papers, getting their patents, and helping suppliers up and down the IT supply chain make the money that keeps the innovation flowing. …
Making Sure AMD Has The Complete Tech Package was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.