In those heady months following OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, much of the IT industry’s focus was on huge and expensive cloud infrastructures running on powerful GPU clusters to train the large language models that underpin the chatbots and other generative AI workloads. …
Cisco Pushes Nvidia Enterprise AI, But Has Its Own Network Agenda was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Sponsored Content: The newly launched Intel Xeon 6 processors are designed to boost AI and other compute intensive workload performance for datacenter servers. …
New Chips Built For The Age Of AI was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has always been more interested in providing a choice of compute engines compared to Dell, which was the underdog in servers for a long time. …
HPE Is Also Having Trouble Making Money With AI Servers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
With Intel’s foundry still trying to get caught up with the process and packaging offered by archrival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, Intel’s server CPU product line has to “make do” with what the foundry has and create products that give the right mix of performance and price to compete with CPU rival AMD in the X86 space and the Arm collective that is creating a new CPU tier in the datacenter. …
Intel Brings A Big Fork To A Server CPU Knife Fight was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Computex, the annual conference in Taiwan to showcase the island nation’s vast technology business, has been transformed into what amounts to a half-time show for the datacenter IT year. …
AMD Previews “Turin” Epyc CPUs, Expands Instinct GPU Roadmap was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There are many things that are unique about Nvidia at this point in the history of computing, networking, and graphics. …
Nvidia Unfolds GPU, Interconnect Roadmaps Out To 2027 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For most of the generative AI revolution thus far, the big original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs, have been sidelined as Nvidia and now AMD have done direct allocations of their GPU compute engines to hyperscalers, cloud builders, and other lighthouse customers. …
How Much Can Dell Profit From The AI Wave? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The generative AI revolution is making strange bedfellows, as revolutions and emerging monopolies that capitalize on them, often do. …
Key Hyperscalers And Chip Makers Gang Up On Nvidia’s NVSwitch Interconnect was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Aside from all of the buzz that optics get in datacenter networking, copper is still king of the short haul. …
With Thor 2, Broadcom Wants To Become The AI Network Adapter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Several years ago, Subaru set a goal to stop fatal accidents involving its cars in 2030 and is leaning heavily on AI to reach the target. …
Subaru Drives Its EyeSight System Forward With AI Augmentation was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
For the past five years, since Nvidia acquired InfiniBand and Ethernet switch and network interface card supplier Mellanox, people have been wondering what the split is between compute and networking in the Nvidia datacenter business that has exploded in growth and now represents most of revenue for each quarter. …
Nvidia’s Enormous Financial Success Becomes . . . Normal was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Two Gordons loom large in the history of computing, and both made observations about the interplay of economics and technology and how they foster progress, which have both been enshrined as laws. …
Gordon Bell: A Giant Of Minicomputers, Unparalleled In Supercomputers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
No surprises here: Reviewing first quarter earnings calls of S&P 500 companies, London-based analytics firm GlobalData found that generative AI was a key point of discussion among a growing number of the public companies. …
Dell Wants To Help You Build Your AI Factory was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Cloud is an attitude as much as it is a consumption model. …
Cloud Revenues Will Bust Through $1 Trillion Before Too Long was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Generative AI and the various capacity and latency needs it has for compute and storage is muscling out almost every other topic when conversations turn to HPC and enterprise. …
Companies Need On-Premise HPC – And For More Than AI, Too was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
If you look at the financial results for Cisco Systems over more than a decade, it is hard to tell one year from the other. …
Cisco Starts To See Signs Of Datacenter Spending Recovery was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you stare at something for a little bit of time and let your mind wander, you can think of a new way to analyze something that you have looked at a bunch of times. …
Top500 Supers: Nvidia Utterly Dominates Those Shiny New Machines was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We think that waferscale computing is an interesting and even an inevitable concept for certain kinds of compute and memory. …
One Cerebras Wafer Beats An Exascale Super At Molecular Dynamics was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The difference between “high performance computing” in the general way that many thousands of organizations run traditional simulation and modeling applications and the kind of exascale computing that is only now becoming a little more commonplace is like the difference between a single, two door coupe that goes 65 miles per hour (most of the time) and a fleet of bullet trains that can each hold over 1,300 people and move at more than 300 miles per hour, connecting a country or a continent. …
To Exascale And (Maybe) Beyond! was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Very few organizations have enough iron to train a large language model in a reasonably short amount of time, and that is why most will be grabbing pre-trained models and then retraining the parameters in the models with much smaller datasets that are important to them. …
Japan Gets An LLM Compliments Of Fujitsu And RIKEN was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.