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.
The concrete has been poured and the first containers that will house the exascale-class “Jupiter” system at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany are being lifted into place for the modular datacenter that will be the home of the massive machine. …
Thinking Outside Of The Box With The Jupiter Supercomputer Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It has become a well known fact these days that the switches that are used to interconnect distributed systems are not the most expensive part of that network, but rather it is the optical transceivers and fiber optic cables that comprise the bulk of the cost. …
Copper Wires Have Already Failed Clustered AI Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Despite a slow start several years ago, Oracle has refashioned itself into a cloud builder, rapidly expanding its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to make it among the top second-tier providers, although still well behind the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. …
Oracle Puts AI, Automation Between Its Cloud And the Bad Guys was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
For a decade before the generative AI boom took off in late 2022, classical artificial intelligence, used for all kinds of self-learning predictive algorithms, was destined to be a very large component of the IT stack at most organizations in the world. …
The Difficulty – And Necessity – Of Parsing Out AI Spending was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Some people are obsessed by crowd sizes, others by their net worth, and still others by the size of their AI datacenters. …
Green Acres Is The Place For Larry was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The major cloud builders and their hyperscaler brethren – in many cases, one company acts like both a cloud and a hyperscaler – have made their technology choices when it comes to deploying AI training platforms. …
The Battle Begins For AI Inference Compute In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It’s a multi-cloud world and one with a cloud infrastructure services market that is dominated by three large players. …
Oracle Runs OCI Clones At Rival AWS, Google, And Azure Clouds was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
PARTNER CONTENT: Most retailers are saddled with aging, heterogeneous IT environments spread across wide geographical areas, making it difficult to adopt the latest and greatest advancements of the data-driven, artificial intelligence (AI) age. …
Where Retail Meets The Intelligent Edge, Great Things Are Happening was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is hard to believe that Amazon Web Services has been selling compute, storage, and networking capacity for nearly two decades. …
AWS Adds Managed Slurm To ParallelCluster Cloudy Supercomputers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
All of the weather and climate simulation centers on Earth are trying to figure out how to use a mixture of traditional HPC simulation and modeling with various kinds of AI prediction to create forecasts for both near-term weather and long-term climate that have higher fidelity and go out further into the future. …
NOAA Gets $100 Million Windfall For “Rhea” Research Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Wall Street might have unreasonable expectations about how OEMs and ODMs can profit from the GenAI boom through selling GPU laden systems. …
Profiting From The GenAI Boom Is Tough Even If It Democratizes was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
PARTNER CONTENT Scientists say the global climate crisis is continuing to intensify, and managing the situation requires increasingly innovative solutions. …
Cloud HPC Is The ‘SilverLining’ in Global Warming Mitigation was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Austin is the flagship datacenter for supercomputing for the US National Science Foundation, and so what TACC does – and doesn’t do – is a kind of bellwether for academic supercomputing. …
TACC Fires Up “Vista” Bridge To Future “Horizon” Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Rated horsepower for a compute engine is an interesting intellectual exercise, but it is where the rubber hits the road that really matters. …
The First AI Benchmarks Pitting AMD Against Nvidia was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.