Hardware is always the star of Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference, and this year we got previews of “Blackwell” datacenter GPUs, the cornerstone of a 2025 platform that includes “Grace” CPUs, the NVLink Switch 5 chip, the Bluefield-3 DPU, and other components, all of which Nvidia is talking about again this week at the Hot Chips 2024 conference. …
Nvidia Rolls Out Blueprints For The Next Wave Of Generative AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
COMMISSIONED Organizations must consider many things before deploying generative AI services, from choosing models and tech stacks to selecting relevant use cases. …
Get Your Data House In Order To Unlock Your Generative AI Strategy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Effects are multiplicative, not additive, when it comes to increasing compute engine performance. …
Bechtolsheim Outlines Scaling XPU Performance By 100X By 2028 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When you are designing applications that run across the scale of an entire datacenter and that are comprised of hundreds to thousands of microservices running on countless individual servers and that have to be called within a matter of microseconds to give the illusion of a monolithic application, building fully connected, high bi-section bandwidth Clos networks is a must. …
This AI Network Has No Spine – And That’s A Good Thing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Nvidia hit a rare patch of bad news earlier this month when reports started circulating claiming that the company’s much-anticipated “Blackwell” GPU accelerators could be delayed by as much as three months due to design flaws. …
When Nvidia Says Hot Chips, It Means Hot Platforms was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Rackspace Technology has admittedly been relatively quiet in recent years when it’s come to OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure platform that was born in 2010 out of the collaboration between the cloud computing company and NASA. …
Rackspace Goes All In – Again – On OpenStack was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
A complex world demands complex systems.
Designing and improving new industrial systems, semiconductors, or vehicles, whether earth or space bound, presents massive engineering and manufacturing challenges. …
When You’re Building The Future, The Past Is No Longer A Guide was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Current AI training and some AI inference clusters have two networks. …
Arista Banks On The AI Network Double Whammy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It’s still Ketchup Week here at The Next Platform, and we are going to be circling back to look at the financials of a number of bellwether datacenter companies that we could not get to during a number of medical crisis – including but not limited to our family catching COVID when we took a week of vacation at a lake in Michigan. …
Supermicro Financials Get Better As The Company Gets Bigger was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
COMMISSIONED On a bustling factory floor, an advanced AI system orchestrates a symphony of robotic arms, each performing its task with precision. …
Building Blocks of AI: How Storage Architecture Shapes AI Success was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If AMD is willing and eager to spend $4.9 billion to buy a systems company – that is more than its entire expected haul for sales of datacenter GPUs for 2024 – then you have to figure that acquisition is pretty important. …
Why AMD Spent $4.9 Billion To Buy ZT Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Like many other suppliers of hardware and systems software, Cisco Systems is trying to figure out how to make money on the AI revolution. …
AI Pervades The Cisco Stack, But Is Only Starting To Drive Sales was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We were away on vacation at a lakeside beach in northern Michigan when we caught the news that the UK government was pulling the plug on a plan for an exascale supercomputer to be installed at the EPCC at the University of Edinburgh. …
Why The UK Should Have Its Own Exascale AI/HPC Machine, And How was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Each time that the United States has figured out that it needed to do export controls on massively parallel compute engines to try to discourage China from buying such gear and building supercomputers with them, it has already been too late to have much of a long term effect on China’s ability to run the advanced HPC simulations and AI training workloads that we were worried would be enabled by such computing oomph. …
Huawei’s HiSilicon Can Compete With Nvidia GPUs In China was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
COMMISSIONED Enterprises adopting AI to stay competitive must tailor AI models to their needs. …
Mastering The AI Terrain: Why Optimal Storage Is Essential For Competitive Edge was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Here’s a question for you: How much of the growth in cloud spending at Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud in the second quarter came from OpenAI and Anthropic spending money they got as investments out of the treasure chests of Microsoft, Amazon, and Google? …
The Sugar Daddy Boomerang Effect: How AI Investments Puff Up The Clouds was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
COMMISSIONED: Whether you’re using one of the leading large language models (LLM), emerging open-source models or a combination of both, the output of your generative AI service hinges on the data and the foundation that supports it. …
GenAI Only As Good As Its Data And Platforms was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
Intel’s second quarter is pretty much a carbon copy of the first three months of 2024 when it comes to revenues across its newly constituted groups, and with an operating loss that is twice as big. …
The Resurrection Of Intel Will Take More Than Three Days was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
With all of the hyperscalers and major cloud builders designing their own CPUs and AI accelerators, the heat is on those who sell compute engines to these companies. …
Ampere Arm Server CPUs To Get 512 Cores, AI Accelerator was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As expected, AMD has once again raised its forecast for sales of its Instinct MI300 series GPUs, and as it has broken through $1 billion in revenues for its “Antares” line of compute engines in the second quarter, it is now expecting to surpass $4.5 billion in sales of these devices for all of 2024. …
AMD Breaks $1 Billion In Datacenter GPU Sales In Q2 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.