AI
Cerebras Smashes AI Wide Open, Countering Hypocrites
We could have a long, thoughtful, and important conversation about the way AI is transforming the world. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Connect
Enfabrica Converges Extended Memory And I/O Down To One Chip
Disaggregation means a lot of things, but the one thing that it most certainly does not mean is that every little thing in a system necessarily has to be smashed apart and then put back together in a composable ways. …
HPC
Is This The End Of The Line For NEC Vector Supercomputers?
Updated: There is some chatter – some might call it well-informed speculation – going on out there on the Intertubes that Japanese system maker NEC is shutting down its “Aurora” Vector Engine vector processor business. …
Compute
More Power To You – Energy Efficiently
SPONSORED Every year, a fairly large portion of the several tens of millions of servers running in the world needs to be replaced because the cost of using the old machinery can be higher than buying in the new machinery – and this can be true even if the old kit is entirely paid for and completely depreciated. …
AI
Nvidia’s Four Workhorses Of The AI Inference Revolution
Last May, after we had done a deep dive on the “Hopper” H100 GPU accelerator architecture and as we were trying to reckon what Nvidia could charge for the PCI-Express and SXM5 variants of the GH100, we said that Nvidia needed to launch a Hopper-Hopper superchip. …
AI
Inside The Infrastructure That Microsoft Builds To Run AI
Like the rest of the world, we have been watching Microsoft’s increasing use of foundation models as it transforms its services and software. …
HPC
Fujitsu To Fork Arm Server Chip Line To Chase Clouds
When it comes to chips, there is a big difference between a kicker and a fork. …
HPC
DOE Wants A Hub And Spoke System Of HPC Systems
We talk about scale a lot here at The Next Platform, but there are many different aspects to this beyond lashing a bunch of nodes together and counting aggregate peak flops. …
Connect
A Bumper Crop Of Ethernet Switches Harvested In Q4
With each passing year, the phrase “The network is the computer,” coined in 1984 by John Gage, director of research and co-founder of Sun Microsystems, becomes more and more true. …
Cloud
Hashi Stack To Break $1 Billion, With Profits, In Two Years
About half as much. This is the pattern we have been seeing as many growing tech companies close out their 2022 or fiscal 2023 years and look ahead to their 2023 or fiscal 2024 years. …