Intel recently announced that High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) will be available on select “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon SP processors and will provide the CPU backbone for the “Aurora” exascale supercomputer to be sited at Argonne National Laboratory. Paired with Intel’s Xe HPC (codenamed “Ponte Vecchio”) compute GPUs running in a unified CPU/GPU …
Intel has spent the past nine months reorganizing itself in the wake of Pat Gelsinger becoming its chief executive officer in January, including new groups and divisions and new managers for them that were revealed in June. But the fate of its HPC organization, which has been less focused than …
The chip cold war between China and the United States continues to heat up like a processor with a heat sink that it is a little too small. And the scuttlebutt is that this week Alibaba, the Chinese online retailer and cloud service provider that is roughly analogous to Amazon …
Dell Technologies, since its founding 37 years ago, has been about infrastructure — from the servers, networking systems and storage appliances that populate enterprise datacenters to the corporate clients that are designed to make employees more productive. Infrastructure is what has driven Dell to become a multinational IT giant that …
Every startup has to be both flexible and focused, and it is tough to balance the two. There is always more than one way to attack any given market, and sometimes the obvious way to land and expand a given technology in its market when a company is founded turns …
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Thomas Kurian’s arrival at Google Cloud in early 2019 after more than 22 years at Oracle marked a significant shift in Google’s thinking, putting an emphasis on expanding its cloud’s business use by enterprises as the key to making up ground on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure in …
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Over the last twenty years, memory has risen from 10% of the semiconductor market to almost 30%, a trend that is expected to continue, propelled by compute at the edge all the way up to datacenter. To meet these demands, memory giant, Micron, has announced it will make $150 billion …
When we hear about the massive GPT-3 language model, it is natural to assume it is open source and ready for the taking. Assuming, of course, there is enough capacity to actually run it. However, there is a waitlist for GPT-3 access — and even for large companies it can …
So many of Google’s technology developments have had major impacts in the commercial world but the company’s impact on scientific computing has been far less pronounced. Teams at the search engine giant are trying to bridge that gap by creating software tools that blend the best of two worlds — …
Ex-Nervana Systems engineers made the jump from a hardware-centric approach to efficient training to pushing better insight into optimization of models and systems. Nervana Systems was one of the first AI chip startups to generate big buzz, culminating in an acquisition by Intel in summer, 2016. The startup’s co-founder and …
Search engine and cloud computing juggernaut Google is hosting its Google Cloud Next ’21 conference this week, and one of the more interesting things that the company unveiled is several layers of software that makes its Spanner globally distributed relational database look and feel like the popular open source PostgreSQL …
Here are two things you don’t see every day in the realm of scientific and technical high performance computing. The first thing is seeing an organization upgrade an existing system after it has already had its successor plopped down in the datacenter next to it. And the second thing is …
We are strong believers in disaggregation and composability here at The Next Platform, and we think that eventually the tyranny of the physical confines and configurations of motherboard will be over. At some point in the future – probably not five years but maybe within ten – systems will be …
In the history of defense technology contracting, two companies continue to loom large: IBM and Raytheon. If quantum bets are correct, a partnership between both could mean joint leadership in the emerging space—one that will require established companies to back untested technologies. Defense and aerospace contracting giant, Raytheon, has its …
Clear Ventures managed to stay out of the AI chip startup investment fray of the last several years. What it saw then was a lack of focus on software and usability, an observation that persists as it looks to the future AI infrastructure. The hype around AI chips over the …
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