Updated: As we expected, the “Vista” supercomputer that the Texas Advanced Computing Center installed last year as a bridge between the current “Stampede-3” and “Frontera” production systems and its future “Horizon” system coming next year was indeed a precursor of the architecture that TACC would choose for the Horizon machine. …
The cluster architectures for AI training and inference are driving unprecedented growth in the datacenter infrastructure spending, but they are also having a reflective and beneficial impact on HPC architectures thanks to the relative ease with which one can get funding for AI initiatives and the need to upgrade existing HPC systems to do traditional simulation and modeling. …
Here’s a riddle for you: What’s the difference between an economic bubble and an economic transformation? …
PARTNER CONTENT We are entering a new era where AI isn’t just a tool for transformation but the foundation for reinvention. …
For the past two years now, we have been picking apart the semi-annual rankings of supercomputers known as the Top500 is a different way, focusing on the new machines that come into each list in either June or November. …
There is a vicious cycle that comes from screwing up, but there is also a virtuous cycle that comes from digging yourself out of the hole and not only not screwing up anymore, but catching up to and then leapfrogging the competition through good engineering, hard work, and a little luck. …
Space has always been a premium in the datacenter, but the heat is on – quite literally – to drive up the density of GPU and XPU compute not just because real estate is expensive, but because latency is perhaps more expensive. …
There are somewhere on the order of 50,000 reasonably large companies, academic centers, and governments in the world that the enterprise IT market is like the ocean on a calm day in the doldrums. …
If there is one thing that the AI model builders and the neoclouds both agree on, it is that they do not want to worry about storage. …
There are two competing forces in IT, and they are at play during the GenAI era as much as they have ever been during prior eras in the datacenter. …
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