Compute
The World Is Still Hungry For Servers – For Now
Two observations. One: When the world goes into recession, the server market has immediately followed. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Compute
Compute Is Easy, Memory Is Harder And Harder
What good is a floating point operation embodied in a vector or matrix unit if you can’t get data into fast enough to actually use the compute engine to process it in some fashion in a clock cycle? …
Compute
Making Sure AMD Has The Complete Tech Package
The chief technology officers in the tech world have done their time in the engineering trenches, writing their papers, getting their patents, and helping suppliers up and down the IT supply chain make the money that keeps the innovation flowing. …
Connect
Ethernet Doesn’t Defy The Recession, It Denies It
If there is a recession underway – and we are not convinced that there is even a little bit – then the Ethernet switch market did not get the memo. …
AI
Deutsche Bank Tag Teams With Nvidia On Financial Services AI
In many industries, embracing AI in the application software stack it is not just a matter of training some large language models or recommender systems against general and then specific datasets and plugging it in. …
Store
Can Anyone Make Money From Modern Storage?
In the past three decades, there has been no shortage of companies with interesting ideas to solve very specific data storage and retrieval problems associated with high performance computing in some form or another. …
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. …
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. …