The battle for HPC centers and national labs is underway among the leading AI chip startups in the high-end datacenter space (Graphcore, Cerebras, and SambaNova in particular). …
Waferscale Makes Further AI Supercomputing Inroads was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Watching Amazon Web Services explode on the scene and grow to ginormous size has been a thing to behold. …
Even The World’s Largest Multiuser System Has Its Financial Limits was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Businesses will need to adopt AI technologies not just because they can, but because they must – AI is the technology that will help businesses to be agile, innovate, and scale. …
Why Future Advances In AI Need A New Architecture was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.
No matter if you are talking about compute or networking, there are two opposing forces that are constantly at interplay on a field of green money. …
Why There’s Hard, Cold Cash For Soft, Disaggregated Routing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In the current quantum computing landscape, there are hardware and software providers with the most prominent players doing both. …
One Company Could Own the Quantum Product Spectrum was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Investigations, conducted together with scientists at CERN, show promising results – with breakthrough performance – in their pursuit of faster Monte Carlo based simulations, which are an important part of many scientific, engineering, and financial applications. …
CERN Uses DLBoost, oneAPI To Juice Inference Without Accuracy Loss was written by James Reinders at The Next Platform.
As one of the four key engines of compute and networking, we like to keep an eye on what is happening with field programmable gate arrays and the SoCs that incorporate them and have a mix of network and CPU and other accelerator circuits increasingly embedded on them. …
The Lay Of The FPGA Financial Land was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Earlier this month we posited the idea that 2021 could be the year of quantum computing-led drug discovery and predicted that partnerships like those of Google and European pharma giant Boehringer Ingelheim would be more common with more quantum hardware makers tying the knot with drug manufacturers. …
Pharma Giant Roche Partners for Quantum Drug Discovery was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is getting a significant upgrade to its all-CPU “Cheyenne” supercomputer, bringing it from 5.2 peak petaflops of performance to 19.87 with a combination of AMD CPUs and Nvidia A100 GPUs laid out in an HPE Cray XE (formerly called “Shasta”) system. …
AMD, Cray, Nvidia Behind Massive NCAR Supercomputer Upgrade was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Server buyers have longer memories and perhaps deeper disappointment of AMD’s exit from the X86 server processor business than consumers who buy PCs, and a manufacturing constrained Intel has clearly sacrificed some Core PC chip market share to maintain some Xeon SP server market share over the past two years. …
AMD Rides The High Performance Computing Megacycle was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If the emergence of Nvidia in datacenter compute shows anything, it is the value of controlling the software stack as you come to dominate the compute – and the revenue and profits – in the hardware stack. …
Nvidia Gets Certifiable About Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Getting peak utilization out of GPU farms in the age of AI will be the unending quest. …
Container Approach to Boosting GPU Utilization Secures Bigger Backing was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Without good technology, all the marketing in the world won’t get a company off the ground and keep it in the air, and conversely, without good marketing and sales, all of the technology in the world won’t do it, either. …
After Three Decades, You Can Finally Have A Distributed SQL Database was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The 2010s provided a range of new quantum hardware makers to evaluate but the 2020s will be focused far more software for broader use of nascent quantum devices. …
UK Startup Funded to Create End-All OS for Quantum Computing was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
While the promise of neuromorphic computing going mainstream is still mostly unrealized, there are steps being taken to bring it closer to reality. …
Intel’s Neuromorphic Chip Just Got More Accessible for Mainstream AI was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Sponsored article The augmented reality (AR and virtual reality (VR) market is big business – and growing fast. …
Making AR and VR a Reality in Higher Education was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
At its heart, and until the day it dies, if a corporation ever really dies, International Business Machines will be a platform company, no matter how much it tries to bamboozle itself or Wall Street or Main Street otherwise. …
The Horizontal And Vertical Platforms Of Big Blue was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Over the course of the pandemic, you have probably encountered data from IHME, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. …
COVID Modeling Demands Mean Big Storage Boost for IHME was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Incoming chief executive officer and long-time Intel employee Pat Gelsinger is talking the helm of a chip company that has plenty of issues to sort out, but there is some good news as Intel reports its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2020 and Gelsinger gets ready to take over. …
Intel’s Datacenter Decline Not As Bad As Expected was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is a given that high performance computing systems of any kind are going to need high performance storage to keep them fed. …
Storage Can’t Be An Afterthought With AI Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.