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 …
Sometimes, especially with Intel in the past several years, the fact that the CPU roadmap doesn’t change is the news. And in this case, during Intel’s Innovation 2023 event hosted this week in its stomping grounds of San Jose, the Xeon SP news is good and the messaging around its …
Different workloads need different mixes of price, performance, thermals, and longevity in the field out there on the edge and in the datacenter, and that is why server CPU makers for years have had a mix of processors that deliver on these vectors that are different from each other. What …
The Association for Computing Machinery has just put out the finalists for the Gordon Bell Prize award that will be given out at the SC23 supercomputing conference in Denver, and as you might expect, some of the biggest iron assembled in the world are driving the advanced applications that have …
For the past decade or so, we have been convinced by quite a large number of IT suppliers that security functions, network and storage virtualization functions, and even the server virtualization hypervisor for carving up compute itself should be offloaded from servers to intermediaries somewhat illogically called data processing units, …
There are a lot of things going on in the datacenter and campus interconnect markets, but one of the weirder things we observe from the most recent market data coming out of IDC about the Ethernet portion of this market is that it is like a country music record being …
We are still plowing through the many, many presentions from the Hot Interconnects, Hot Chips, Google Cloud Next, and Meta Networking @ Scale conferences that all happened recently and at essentially the same time. And we intend to take our usual, methodical approach of finding the interesting bits and doing …
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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 …
The Semiconductor Climate Consortium (SCC) is a collaborative effort aimed at significantly curbing the carbon emissions of the semiconductor industry. It aims to align the semi industry’s carbon emissions reduction trajectory with the IPCC’s 1.5°C pathway, which calls for a 43% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 2019 levels by …
Here at The Next Platform we are still casting a wary eye on how quantum computing will fit into the post-Moore landscape, especially in large-scale research and enterprise contexts. However, this week yielded several announcements that highlight the practical applications are starting to come together—at least via more development partnerships. …
Heterogeneous computing is clearly here to stay but now’s the time to get down to brass tacks and start addressing standards, portability, and other elements common to maturing technologies. The need to integrate various types of processors, including CPUs, GPUs, and specialized chips for AI and other applications is clear, …
The history of computing teaches us that software always and necessarily lags hardware, and unfortunately that lag can stretch for many years when it comes to wringing the best performance out of iron by tweaking algorithms. This will remain true as long as human beings are in the loop, but …
When Jim Keller talks about compute engines, you listen. And when Keller name drops a programming language and AI runtime environment, as he did in a recent interview with us, you do a little research and you also keep an eye out for developments. The name Keller dropped was Chris …
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