Compute
AWS Tunes Up Compute And Network For HPC
When it comes to hardware, there was not a lot of big news coming out of the Amazon Web Services re:Invent 2022 conference this week. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
AI
Counting The Cost Of Training Large Language Models
It has been becoming increasingly clear – anecdotally at least – just how expensive it is to train large language models and recommender systems, which are arguably the two most important workloads driving AI into the enterprise. …
Compute
Talking Datacenter Computing With The CEOs Of AMD And Supermicro
Sponsored Feature: With every server CPU launch, component and system maker Supermicro always wants to be at the front of the line to offer its channel partners and large direct customer base the opportunity to get systems based on the hottest new technologies. …
Compute
Riding The Steadily Rising Enterprise IT Market
It is tough to get excited about mature markets that grow at a steady rate unless it happens to be the most profitable part of the market. …
Compute
Datacenter Can Carry Nvidia Through The Rough Spots
After a decade and a half of ceaseless and focused work, Nvidia has created a modern compute platform, and a unique one at that. …
AI
Cerebras Wants Its Piece Of An Increasingly Heterogenous HPC World
Changing the compute paradigm in the datacenter, or even extending it or augmenting it in some fashion, is no easy task. …
Compute
HBM Gives Xeon SPs A Big Boost On Bandwidth Bound Work
If there is one bright spot in the Xeon SP server chip line from Intel, it is the version of the “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon SP processor that has HBM memory welded to it. …
HPC
Testing The Mettle Of The Top Supercomputing Iron On Earth
It’s fall, so that means it is the annual Super Computing conference that has been held in the United States by the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society since 1989. …
Compute
Why AMD “Genoa” Epyc Server CPUs Take The Heavyweight Title
The server CPU racket is not an easy one. It would be tough to find a more difficult business, and it gets harder to compete each year as computing becomes more and more focused at the hyperscalers and cloud builders, who demand the best for the least money. …
Compute
One New Feature For Intel’s HPC Compute Engines: Contrition
It is very rare for any of the major semiconductor suppliers of the world to ever admit that things are going wrong, even when we all know that they have been. …