Server makers Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Lenovo, who are the three largest original manufacturers of systems in the world, ranked in that order, are adding to the spectrum of interconnects they offer to their enterprise customers. And when we say that, we really do mean spectrum, and specially we …
Many have waited years to hear someone like Prahlad Venkatapuram, Senior Director of Engineering at Meta, say what came out this week at the RISC-V Summit: “We’ve identified that RISC-V is the way to go for us moving forward for all the products we have in the roadmap. That includes …
SPONSORED FEATURE: The face of modern networking is changing dramatically in parallel with the exponential increase in the volume of data traffic over the last several years. Enterprises and cloud service providers alike are struggling to handle that transmission workload, whilst simultaneously trying to contain costs. It’s a tall order …
The ProLiant server business is down in the dumps, and the storage business is in a slump. But petascale and exascale supercomputer deals based the combination of AMD CPUs and GPUs have filled in a lot of the gap. And Hewlett Packard Enterprise is now waiting, like all OEMs and …
Since the advent of distributed computing, there has been a tension between the tight coherency of memory and its compute within a node – the base level of a unit of compute – and the looser coherency over the network across those nodes. All things being equal, you try to …
For more than a year, we have been expecting for Amazon Web Services to launch its Graviton4 processor for its homegrown servers at this year’s re:Invent, and lo and behold, chief executive officer Adam Selipsky rolled out the fourth generation in the Graviton CPU lineup – and the fifth iteration …
Over the past few years, the Arm architecture has made steady gains, particularly among the hyperscalers and cloud builders. But in the HPC community, Arm remains under-represented. But perhaps not for long. The “Fugaku” system at RIKEN Lab in Japan is without a doubt the largest and best known Arm …
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When we first talked to Voltron Data following their launch in early 2022, we had to take care to explain why Apache Arrow was worth paying attention to and why it might warrant the level of enterprise support the startup promised. Even more explanation was needed to justify the $110 …
If you are looking for an alternative to Nvidia GPUs for AI inference – and who isn’t these days with generative AI being the hottest thing since a volcanic eruption – then you might want to give Groq a call. It is ramping up production on its Language Processing Units, …
The exorbitant cost of GPU-accelerated systems for training and inference and latest to rush to find gold in mountains of corporate data are combining to exert tectonic forces on the datacenter landscape and push up a new Himalaya range – with Nvidia as its steepest and highest peak. It is …
If you are in the traditional HPC community, it is not hard to be of two minds about the rise of AI and the mainstreaming of generative AI. At the very least, the GenAI tsunami makes it easier to argue for hardware budgets even though it is extremely difficult to …
As Moore’s law continues to slow, delivering more powerful HPC and AI clusters means building larger, more power hungry facilities. “If you want more performance, you need to buy more hardware, and that means a bigger system; that means more energy dissipation and more cooling demand,” University of Utah professor …
In a world where allocations of “Hopper” H100 GPUs coming out of Nvidia’s factories are going out well into 2024, and the allocations for the impending “Antares” MI300X and MI300A GPUs are probably long since spoken for, anyone trying to build a GPU cluster to power a large language model …
Cisco navigated a rocky road in its first quarter of the year as evidenced by the dips in share price for the networking giant this morning. However, like its other public tech peers, Cisco is pointing to AI as the savior of all systems spending, claiming $1 billion in AI-centric …
After many years of rumors, Microsoft has finally confirmed that it is following rivals Amazon Web Services and Google into the design of custom processors and accelerators for their clouds. That confirmation came today as Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive officer, announced the Cobalt 100 Arm server CPU and the …
UPDATED Here is a story you don’t hear very often: A supercomputing center was just given a blank check up to the peak power consumption of its facility to build a world-class AI/HPC supercomputer instead of a sidecar partition with some GPUs to play around with and wish its researchers …
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