One of the reasons why we have been watching Nutanix since it dropped out of stealth mode in August 2011, two years after being founded, because we had a hunch that the upstart maker of a server-storage half-blood than banned the SAN from the datacenter would transform itself into a …
There is something about late September. Nvidia was founded 30 years ago on Tuesday this week, Google was founded 25 years ago on Wednesday, and Supermicro was founded 30 years ago today. Three decades ago, Supermicro and its sister company, Ablecom, were both family affairs, as sometimes happens with startups. …
SPONSORED FEATURE: A sharp new tool being used more and more by creative enterprise IT teams, generative AI, has the potential to enable major advances in the way an enterprise conducts its business. This is because its value can be utilized in numerous internal and external-facing applications and services, including …
SPONSORED FEATURE: There are a lot of pressures on the datacenter network these days just to deal with expanding data and the increasing use of microservices architectures for modern applications. But the advent of artificial intelligence – both for neural model training and for inference that drives applications – has …
We said it from the beginning: There is no way that Meta Platforms, the originator of the Open Compute Project, wanted to buy a complete supercomputer system from Nvidia in order to advance its AI research and move newer large language models and recommendation engines into production. Meta Platforms, which …
We’ve been watching Julia, an HPC-oriented programming language designed for technical and scientific computing for a number of years to see it can make inroads into supercomputing. This week we were able to get some info about how it performs on an exascale system. The main selling point of Julia …
It takes big money as well as big ideas to compete in the generative AI space. Not hundreds of millions of dollars, but billions of dollars. And because of this, and because the stakes are so high as GenAI goes from hype cycle to commercialization, we see alliances and partnerships …
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SPONSORED POST: Intel’s flagship technology event – Intel Innovation – took place at the San Jose Convention Center in California earlier this month, with select content available on demand from September 27th for those who were unable to attend in-person. The program was packed with the sort of tech knowhow …
Back in 2009, I was the editor of a mini-side publication from supercomputing magazine, HPCwire, called HPC in the Cloud. At that time, the concept was new enough to warrant a formal division between what HPC was and what it would eventually be–and its own dedicated coverage. The first ISC …
Although our appetite for a vast range of AI accelerators appears to be waning, or at least condensing down to a few options, there might be methods on the horizon to let accelerator designers explore new concepts in an interesting way. Such accelerators are generally human designed but there have …
Based on what Intel has been saying for the past several weeks in various events, but especially the Hot Chips 2023 a few weeks ago and the more recent Intel Innovation 2023 extravaganza, the company’s foundry process roadmap and its server processor roadmaps are going to align harmoniously to make …
When it comes to natural disasters, every second counts—and the clock may just be ticking a little slower following a collaboration between Terra Quantum and Honda Research Institute Europe (HRI-EU). By entangling quantum computing with traditional algorithms, the team has paved a ‘superposition’ of escape routes designed to evacuate people …
At SC23 in November, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) will give out its first-ever ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling at a ceremony in Denver. The new award type, which will run for the next decade, aims to recognize climate scientists and software engineers for their work in …
The U.S. Department of Defense has announced a slew of states are set to split $238 million in funding from the “Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act.” The funds will be divvied up among eight Microelectronics Commons “regional innovation hubs.” This marks the largest allocation yet …
Scientists from KAUST and engineers from Cerebras Systems have fine-tuned an existing algorithm, Tile Low-Rank Matrix-Vector Multiplications (TLR-MVM), to improve the speed and accuracy of seismic data processing. The collaborative work is up for a Gordon Bell prize to be presented at SC23. At the core of this is the …
If you have the entire corpus of the Internet scrubbed of nonsense plus whatever else you can scrounge up in whatever language all put into the right format so you can chew on that data one token at a time with trillions of parameters of interconnections between those tokens to …
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