We could have a long, thoughtful, and important conversation about the way AI is transforming the world. But that is not what this story is about. What it is about is how very few companies have access to the raw AI models that are transforming the world, the curated datasets …
SPONSORED: Ransomware may currently be the biggest bogeyman for cybersecurity pros, law enforcement, and governments, but it shouldn’t divert us from more traditional, but still very disruptive threats. Take distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, for example. Hacktivist groups were notorious for flooding their targets with traffic in the noughties, …
Disaggregation means a lot of things, but the one thing that it most certainly does not mean is that every little thing in a system necessarily has to be smashed apart and then put back together in a composable ways. Sometimes, it makes sense to aggregate devices in new and …
Similar to interior designers trying to fit the chairs, tables, and other furniture in rooms inside of a home, chip designers have to figure out where the various bits and pieces of a processor will lie on confined floor plans where latency between parts matters. Interior designers have to consider …
Containers are still the hot new technology in the datacenter to some, but many of the pieces and parts that eventually would find their way into today’s container platforms have long-since been used by enterprises and developers thanks to Docker. The company, which was founded a decade ago, pulled those …
Updated: There is some chatter – some might call it well-informed speculation – going on out there on the Intertubes that Japanese system maker NEC is shutting down its “Aurora” Vector Engine vector processor business. If this turns out to be true, this would mark the end of the vector …
If quantum computers are going to become a commercial thing sometime down the road – and there’s a lot of money and time going into the effort to make them viable for use by HPC organizations and enterprises – it’s increasingly likely that it will be in combination with classical …
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SPONSORED: For nearly 150 years, we’ve been doing our best to squeeze messages into light. From the photophone in the 1880s, which used light to relay voice communications, to the first fiber optic cables in the 1980s, light has been a fast and reliable data communications medium. The better we …
SPONSORED: The value of great engineering is often overlooked, yet almost every object we use on a daily basis has been meticulously designed and tested by somebody somewhere to deliver the best possible performance and meet exacting cost and efficiency requirements. Those processes have become considerably more sophisticated with the …
SPONSORED Every year, a fairly large portion of the several tens of millions of servers running in the world needs to be replaced because the cost of using the old machinery can be higher than buying in the new machinery – and this can be true even if the old …
Last May, after we had done a deep dive on the “Hopper” H100 GPU accelerator architecture and as we were trying to reckon what Nvidia could charge for the PCI-Express and SXM5 variants of the GH100, we said that Nvidia needed to launch a Hopper-Hopper superchip. The performance of the …
Nvidia is not rich enough – or dumb enough – to build a cloud to rival the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud. But it is smart enough to use these vast compute and storage utilities to its own advantage and to make money selling services …
Like the rest of the world, we have been watching Microsoft’s increasing use of foundation models as it transforms its services and software. It is hard to say for sure, but with hundreds of thousands of GPUs deployed across the dozens of regions, Microsoft has probably amassed the largest pool …
For many years, and quite a long time ago in computer time, Hadoop was seen as the best way to store and analyze mountains of unstructured data. But then workloads and data began shifting to the biggest cloud builders, where Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud were waiting …
HOT SEAT INTERVIEW: Will your smartphone break if you drop it? Will your car crumple if you crash it? Will the beams that hold up your roof buckle under extreme weather conditions? It’s these characteristics that finite element analysis (FEA) simulations are designed to help test prior to product construction, …
Sponsored Post: As in so many other aspects of life, not all compute workloads are created equal – they need a more subtle approach to getting the best out of them which brings a more potent balance of hardware and software into the mix. And that means the international CPU …
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