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AMD Finally Reaps The Fortunes It Has Sown
Sometimes, competing for business means coming up with better products than your rivals. …
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Intel Let The Chips Fall Where They Might
This day always comes. It is the nature of monopoly and hubris. …
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IBM Uses Power10 CPU As An I/O Switch
Back in early July, we covered the launch of IBM’s entry and midrange Power10 systems and mused about how Big Blue could use these systems to reinvigorate an HPC business rather than just satisfy the needs of the enterprise customers who run transaction processing systems and are looking to add AI inference to their applications through matrix math units on the Power10 chip. …
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TSMC: Life’s A Beach, And Then You Make Dies
How much is a pinch of sand worth? Well, that all depends on what you do with it. …
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Big Blue Turns In A Solid Quarter For Systems
By all accounts, Big Blue had a pretty good quarter ending in June, with sales of its System z16 mainframes skyrocketing upwards as they do every couple of years at the beginning of a new cycle and sales of its high-end Power10 machines also getting some traction. …
Cloud
Google Follows Suit With Microsoft On Ampere Arm Instances
A long time ago, when we first started The Next Platform, Urs Hölzle, then senior vice president of the Technical Infrastructure team at Google, told us that to gain a 20 percent improvement in price/performance it would absolutely change from the X86 architecture to Power architecture – or indeed any other architecture – and even for one generation of machines. …
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As CUDA Is To GPU, QODA is To Quantum Compute
In Nvidia’s decade and a half push to make GPU acceleration core to all kinds of high performance computing, a key component has been the CUDA parallel computing platform that made it easier for developers to create applications that can leverage graphics chips for general purpose processing. …
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Can IBM Get Back Into HPC With Power10?
The “Cirrus” Power10 processor from IBM, which we codenamed for Big Blue because it refused to do it publicly and because we understand the value of a synonym here at The Next Platform, shipped last September in the “Denali” Power E1080 big iron NUMA machine. …
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Chip Makers Press For Standardized FP8 Format For AI
In March, Nvidia introduced its GH100, the first GPU based on the new “Hopper” architecture, which is aimed at both HPC and AI workloads, and importantly for the latter, supports an eight-bit FP8 floating point processing format. …
AI
Precision, Accuracy, Scale – And Experience – All Matter With AI
When it comes to building any platform, the hardware is the easiest part and, for many of us, the fun part. …