Inside The Infrastructure That Microsoft Builds To Run AI
Like the rest of the world, we have been watching Microsoft’s increasing use of foundation models as it transforms its services and software. …
Like the rest of the world, we have been watching Microsoft’s increasing use of foundation models as it transforms its services and software. …
GPU computing platform maker Nvidia announced its financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter ended in January, which showed the same digestion of already acquired capacity by the hyperscalers and cloud builders and the same hesitation to spend by enterprises that other compute engine makers for datacenter computing are also seeing. …
By definition, a capability-class supercomputer means buying the best compute, storage, and networking available and getting high performance at just about any cost. …
It seems like we have been talking about Google’s TPUv4 machine learning accelerators for a long time, and that is because we have been. …
The old AMD – the one before Lisa Su took over – was often brilliant with its instruction set architecture and CPU designs, but sometimes perplexingly careless with its design choices and chip roadmaps. …
We have been talking about silicon photonics so long that we are, probably like many of you, frustrated that it already is not ubiquitous. …
System architects are often impatient about the future, especially when they can see something good coming down the pike. …
There are many interpretations of the word venado, which means deer or stag in Spanish, and this week it gets another one: A supercomputer based on future Nvidia CPU and GPU compute engines, and quite possibly if Los Alamos National Laboratory can convince Hewlett Packard Enterprise to support InfiniBand interconnects in its capability class “Shasta” Cray EX machines, Nvidia’s interconnect as well. …
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. …
It is Google I/O 2022 this week, among many other things, and we were hoping for an architectural deep dive on the TPUv4 matrix math engines that Google hinted about at last year’s I/O event. …
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