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Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part Three

February 10, 2020 Paul Teich 0

We have been making the case in this three part series that vertical integration is becoming more popular in modern datacenters. …

Connect

Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part Two

February 3, 2020 Paul Teich 5

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. …

Cloud

Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part One

January 13, 2020 Paul Teich 0

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. …

AI

IBM Project Debater Speaks To The Future Of AI

March 27, 2019 Paul Teich 0

The conversational AI created by IBM called Project Debater is designed to have a formal debate with a person. …

AI

Modernizing The Turing Test For 21st Century AI

March 18, 2019 Paul Teich 0

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

Containers Killed The Virtual Machine Star

January 9, 2019 Paul Teich 3

We predict new enterprise application development will pass a tipping point in 2019 and shift away from legacy virtual machines (VMs) and strongly toward containers and Kubernetes container orchestration. …

Compute

The Leading Edge Of Air-Cooled Servers Leads To The Edge

December 4, 2018 Paul Teich 2

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? …

Compute

Designing Custom Chips In-House Is The New Normal

August 8, 2018 Paul Teich 7

Cloud giants Amazon, Alibaba, Baidu, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft are now designing their own AI accelerator chips. …

AI

Tearing Apart Google’s TPU 3.0 AI Coprocessor

May 10, 2018 Paul Teich 19

Google did its best to impress this week at its annual IO conference. …

AI

Building Bigger, Faster GPU Clusters Using NVSwitches

April 13, 2018 Paul Teich 1

Nvidia launched its second-generation DGX system in March. In order to build the 2 petaflops half-precision DGX-2, Nvidia had to first design and build a new NVLink 2.0 switch chip, named NVSwitch. …

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