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How Long Until The ODMs Take Over Ethernet Switching?

For more than a year now, we have been talking about how investments in AI servers have put a damper on budgets for servers used to support other corporate applications. And we may be seeing enterprises pulling back on campus switching so they can invest more in datacenter switching to

HPC

Expanding The Search For A Range Of New Materials

Finding new functional materials for batteries and catalysts and lots of other uses is a major goal of researchers around the world. And the design and discovery of new materials often requires computer simulations running on the world’s fastest supercomputers using specialized software that can determine properties at the quantum

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The Cloud Outgrows Linux, And Sparks A New Operating System

Ultimately, every problem in the constantly evolving IT software stack becomes a database problem, which is why there are 418 different databases and datastores in the DB Engines rankings and there are really only a handful of commercially viable operating systems. But what if the operating system is the problem?

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HexaMesh: Chiplet Topologies Inspired By Nature

With the reticle limit for chip manufacturing pretty much set in stone (pun intended) at 26 millimeters by 33 millimeters down to 2 nanometer transistor sizes with extreme ultraviolet lithography techniques and being cut in half to 26 millimeters by 16.5 millimeters for the High-NA extreme ultraviolet lithography needed to

Store

Couchbase Joins The Vector Search In Database Fray

As we have noted before, vector databases aren’t new even though people talk about them that way, and in fact can trace their origins back a few decades. Exactly when depends on who you ask, but their popularity began to ramp along with machine learning technologies over the past 10

Compute

AMD Flexing Spartan FPGA Muscles In Clouds And At Edges

The edge is continuing to become a place where IT infrastructure vendors need to be, and that includes chip makers, all of whom have strategies to push their silicon to where the data is increasingly being generated and needs to be stored, processed, and analyzed. AMD, armed with the technology

AI

A Tale Of Two Nvidia Eos Supercomputers

Note: This story augments and corrects information that originally appeared in Half Eos’d: Even Nvidia Can’t Get Enough H100s For Its Supercomputers, which was published on February 15. So, as it turns out, there are two supercomputers named Eos, and even the people in the press relations department at Nvidia,