Compute
The Value Proposition For Amazon’s Graviton3 Server Chip
As is well known, we like feed and speeds and slots and watts metrics here at The Next Platform for any kind of gear that runs in the datacenter. …
Compute
Cloud
Vultr Slices Up GPUs On The Cloud To Democratize Acceleration
Not all cloud providers are the same, and even among the three cloud giants – Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud – there is some measure of differentiation. …
Compute
Nvidia Adds Breadth And Depth To System Designs
The annual Computex computer expo in Taiwan is one of the places that IT vendors like to trot out some of their new wares, and most of the time they have to do with consumer electronics or maybe PCs and smartphones, but every now and then, we get some insight into future datacenter chippery or gear. …
Compute
Cisco: Datacenter Demand Strong, Supply Not So Much
The good news, and we all need to be looking at the bright sides of things a bit these days is that the biggest IT shops in the world want to buy a lot of datacenter gear from Cisco Systems. …
Compute
The Most Obvious Hyperscaler To Do Custom Chips Was Always Facebook
Et tu, Meta?
Of all of the world’s hyperscalers and large cloud builders, only Meta Platforms, dominated by its Facebook and related social network businesses like Instagram and WhatsApp, is a pure-play hyperscaler. …
Compute
Turning A Million-Qubit Quantum Computing Dream Into Reality
James Clarke believes quantum computing won’t become practical until the industry is making chips crammed with upwards of a million error-corrected quantum bits. …
Compute
How Much Of A Premium Will Nvidia Charge For Hopper GPUs?
There is increasing competition coming at Nvidia in the AI training and inference market, and at the same time, researchers at Google, Cerebras, and SambaNova are showing off the benefits of porting sections of traditional HPC simulation and modeling code to their matrix math engines, and Intel is probably not far behind with its Habana Gaudi chips. …
AI
Data Analytics Can Be The Next HPC For IBM Power
In the next few months, Big Blue will launch its entry and midrange Power10 servers, and to be blunt, we are not sure what the HPC and AI angle is going to be for these systems. …
Compute
Can AMD Keep Doubling Its Datacenter Business?
Imagine, if you will, that AMD could make as many Epyc CPUs and Instinct GPU accelerators as it wanted at a reasonable yield and cost. …
Compute
Intel Adjusts, However Slowly, To New Realities In The Datacenter
While chip designer and maker Intel has a new strategy and a new executive team to implement it, it is going to take a long time for changes made last year and this year to be felt and for product and process roadmap changes to put the company into a better competitive situation. …