AI

Nvidia Sacrifices Profits To Preserve Revenues In The US

Making a graphics card for gamers is one thing, but manufacturing a rackscale supercomputer with over 600,000 components that burns 120 kilowatts of power, that has over 5,000 copper cables for an all-to-all interconnect mesh for 72 dual-chip compute engines, and that weighs over 3,000 pounds is another thing entirely.

AI

ABCI Evolves To Meet Japan’s Changing AI Needs

SPONSORED FEATURE: Back before there were AI factories, there were two generations of the AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure supercomputer, built by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan. AIST created what is arguably the first AI factory, merging accelerated computing platforms with cloud infrastructure software

Compute

Google Woos HPC Centers With Fast CPUs And Networks

The HPC centers of the world like fast networks and compute, but they are also always working under budget constraints unlike their AI peers out there in the enterprise, where money seems to be unlimited to what sometimes looks like an irrationally exuberant extent. They are also don’t have a

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Parasail Brokers Between AI Compute Demand And Supply

Mike Henry was interim chief product officer at AI inference company Groq in 2023, a position that put him in close contact with a lot of datacenter administrators and managers. During those six months, he noticed shifts in the ever-evolving landscape that has been the domain of the dominant cloud

AI

A Second Opinion On Future GenAI Spending

Two weeks ago, before we began our nightmare travels to get to the 2025 edition of Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, we put together an analysis of the AI server and storage spending forecasts put out by the good folks at IDC. Now, we have a similar, and

Compute

The Team That Will Implement Intel’s New Vision

Intel is hosting its Vision 2025 annual event in Las Vegas this week, what we old hands used to call Intel Developer Forum back in the days when the chip maker was taking over more and more of the datacenter and had give the world a relatively inexpensive and uniform