Just because you are the number one supplier of servers, storage, and PCs in the world does not mean the job of building those machines and making money is easy. It is not, and the financials of Dell Technologies shows just how tough it can be even when things are …
If you want to buy an exascale-class supercomputer, or a portion of one so you can scale up, there are not a lot of places to go shopping because there are not a lot of companies who have a balance sheet that is big enough to get all of the …
Speeds and feeds are great, but hardware is only as useful as the software that can harness it, and, for AMD, that’s the ROCm software stack. If you’re not familiar, ROCm is to AMD’s Instinct GPU accelerators what CUDA is to Nvidia GPUs. The respective software suites are essential to …
PARTNER CONTENT Since OpenAI first released ChatGPT into the world two years ago, generative AI has been a playground mostly for GPUs and primarily those from Nvidia, even though graphics chips from others and AI-focused silicon have tried to make their way in. Still, at least for the time being, …
If Amazon is going to make you pay for the custom AI advantage that it wants to build over rivals Google and Microsoft, then it needs to have the best models possible running on its homegrown accelerators. Just like Google already does with its own Gemini LLMs on its own …
Intel was the first of the major CPU makers to add HBM stacked DRAM memory to a CPU package, with the “Sapphire Rapids” Max Series Xeon SP processors. But with the “Granite Rapids” Xeon 6, Intel abandoned the use of HBM memory in favor of what it would hope would …
When Fidelma Russo looks at Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s GreenLake, she sees a rapidly expanding platform that like others is trying to keep pace not only with the growing demands of organizations that are continuing to adopt the cloud but also are looking for ways to bring in and deploy emerging …
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Like all auto manufacturers, Ford is pursuing what can only be described as a profound digital transformation. At the SC24 conference, David Kepczynski, the carmaker’s global chief of digital transformation for product development, outlined how high-performance computing, GPU acceleration, and AI/ML are reshaping the company’s approach to everything from safety, …
You’d be forgiven for thinking the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC24) was a global AI-specific event this year. From the show floor to a sizable portion of sessions, much of the discussion was how, where, and to what extent AI will reshape good old fashioned, 64-bit HPC. In addition to the …
COMMISSIONED What’s holding back the next big breakthrough in AI – processing power or the infrastructure supporting it? The short answer is: Both. But having the right infrastructure is the real game-changer. While AI’s progress relies heavily on advanced algorithms and processing units, it’s the infrastructure supporting them that ultimately …
We have said it before, and we will say it again as everyone is chewing on the financial results that Nvidia just turned in for its third quarter of fiscal 2025 ended in October. Nvidia does not have to be in any hurry to deliver its “Blackwell” GPU platforms, which …
As far as we have been concerned since founding The Next Platform literally a decade ago this week, AI training and inference in the datacenter are a kind of HPC. They are very different in some ways. HPC takes a tiny dataset and blows it up into a massive simulation …
Every couple of years, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory gets to install the world’s fastest supercomputer. And thankfully the HPC center usually chooses a machine that not only fulfills its mission of managing the nuclear weapons stockpile of the United States military, but also picks a mix of technologies that advances …
There has been a lot more churn on the November Top500 supercomputer rankings that is the talk of the SC24 conference in Atlanta this week than there was in the list that came out in June at the ISC24 conference in Hamburg, Germany back in May, and there are some …
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and Los Alamos National Laboratory are known by the shorthand “Tri-Labs” in the HPC community, but these HPC centers perhaps could be called “Try-Labs” because they historically have tried just about any new architecture to see what promise it might hold in advancing …
Welcome to the second part in our series of chats with J Metz, chair of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium. Like many of you, we have watched the epic battle between Ethernet and InfiniBand in the past two and a half decades. We have also watched how technologies – particularly remote …
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