It has become a well known fact these days that the switches that are used to interconnect distributed systems are not the most expensive part of that network, but rather it is the optical transceivers and fiber optic cables that comprise the bulk of the cost. Because of this, and …
Despite a slow start several years ago, Oracle has refashioned itself into a cloud builder, rapidly expanding its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to make it among the top second-tier providers, although still well behind the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. The longtime database and middleware giant …
For a decade before the generative AI boom took off in late 2022, classical artificial intelligence, used for all kinds of self-learning predictive algorithms, was destined to be a very large component of the IT stack at most organizations in the world. With all of the excitement around GenAI, it …
UPDATED: Some people are obsessed by crowd sizes, others by their net worth, and still others by the size of their AI datacenters. For still others, there is some overlap. It’s all “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” to us that the number of GPUs and the aggregate …
The major cloud builders and their hyperscaler brethren – in many cases, one company acts like both a cloud and a hyperscaler – have made their technology choices when it comes to deploying AI training platforms. They all use Nvidia datacenter GPUs and, if they have them, their own homegrown …
It’s a multi-cloud world and one with a cloud infrastructure services market that is dominated by three large players. If you’re one of those cloud services providers that is not among the big three, how do you expand the reach of your own cloud offerings? Well, on strategy is that …
It is hard to believe that Amazon Web Services has been selling compute, storage, and networking capacity for nearly two decades. And it is easy to mistakenly think of AWS as mostly a subsidiary of Amazon that rents hardware capacity on the fly. But renting third party software like operating …
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COMMISSIONED: Most retailers are saddled with aging, heterogeneous IT environments spread across wide geographical areas, making it difficult to adopt the latest and greatest advancements of the data-driven, artificial intelligence age. With the ability to consolidate resources and run new and legacy applications in a cloudlike manner, retailers can embrace …
All of the weather and climate simulation centers on Earth are trying to figure out how to use a mixture of traditional HPC simulation and modeling with various kinds of AI prediction to create forecasts for both near-term weather and long-term climate that have higher fidelity and go out further …
Wall Street might have unreasonable expectations about how OEMs and ODMs can profit from the GenAI boom through selling GPU laden systems. That seems to be the case as the stock shifters are picking on box shifter Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which has a nascent but not particularly profitable AI server …
PARTNER CONTENT Scientists say the global climate crisis is continuing to intensify, and managing the situation requires increasingly innovative solutions. While governments wrestle with setting new policies, non-governmental organizations are finding innovative ideas using the technology available to meet these challenges. Supercomputing is one of the technologies that can power …
The Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Austin is the flagship datacenter for supercomputing for the US National Science Foundation, and so what TACC does – and doesn’t do – is a kind of bellwether for academic supercomputing. So it is noteworthy that TACC is installing its first …
Rated horsepower for a compute engine is an interesting intellectual exercise, but it is where the rubber hits the road that really matters. We finally have the first benchmarks from MLCommons, the vendor-led testing organization that has put together the suite of MLPerf AI training and inference benchmarks, that pit …
We have been watching the big original equipment manufactures like a hawk to see how they are generating revenues and income from GPU-accelerated system sales. These OEMs provide the best indicator of the health of the GenAI revolution and the efforts to democratize the massively parallel – and massively expensive …
PARTNER CONTENT Given the size and complexity of modern semiconductor designs, functional verification has become a dominant phase in the development cycle. Coverage lies at the very heart of this process, providing the best way to assess verification progress and determine where to focus further effort. Code coverage of the …
Welcome to the most important earnings call in history, with the weight of the aggregate stock markets of the entire world hanging on what Nvidia says and doesn’t say. Well, the most important one until thirteen weeks from now. And get used to that cadence until this GenAI boom either …
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