On this wide-ranging episode of Next Platform we move in several directions; from the world of bioinformatics infrastructure in the pandemic era to what’s ahead for HPC to what the largest cloud vendors are buying—and what that means for the market. …
We have been making the case in this three part series that vertical integration is becoming more popular in modern datacenters. …
It is funny to think of the modern datacenter as an appliance, like an iPhone, but in the cases of the hyperscalers and the very largest public cloud builders, this is more or less what they are building. …
Best of breed and vertical integration are two opposing forces that have been part of the datacenter since mainframes first fired up six decades ago in rooms with glass windows in them so companies could show off their technical prowess and financial might. …
Earlier in May during The Next AI Platform event in San Jose, we conducted live, technical interviews with a broad range of experts in various areas of deep learning hardware. …
The conversational AI created by IBM called Project Debater is designed to have a formal debate with a person. …
To understand how far natural language processing (NLP) has progressed in the past decade and how fast it is evolving now, we need to update Alan Turing’s thought experiment on how to test an AI for conversational intelligence to a 21st Century context and methodology. …
Cloud providers can be like sharks in that they have to keep moving forward – in their case, growing the number of services they can offer enterprises – or be overtaken by competitors. …
The history of digital computing is to provide increasing levels of abstraction to get programmers further and further away from directly manipulating the ones and zeros. …
What if a hyperscale rack designer decided not to locally optimize legacy form factors for thermal management, but instead to start over and design a rack based on optimizing thermal efficiency? …
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