AI
Meta Buys, Rather Than Builds And Opens, Its Massive AI Supercomputer
If you thought it took a lot of compute and storage to build Facebook’s social network, you ain’t seen nothing yet. …
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Compute
Nvidia Enters The Arms Race With Homegrown “Grace” CPUs
There has been talk and cajoling and rumor for years that GPU juggernaut Nvidia would jump into the Arm server CPU chip arena once again and actually deliver a product that has unique differentiation and a compelling value proposition, particularly for hybrid CPU-GPU compute complexes. …
Compute
The New General And New Purpose In Computing
The term “general purpose” in regards to compute is an evolving one. …
Compute
Ampere DGX Servers Pack A Wallop, Including AMD Epyc CPUs
A new CPU or GPU compute engine is always an exciting time for the datacenter because we get to see the results of years of work and clever thinking by hardware and software engineers who are trying to break through barriers with both their Dennard scaling and their Moore’s Law arms tied behind their backs. …
Compute
The Datacenter Has An Appetite For GPU Compute
It is not inconceivable, but probably also not very likely, that the datacenter business at GPU juggernaut Nvidia could at some point in the next one, two, or three years equal that of the core and foundational gaming sector. …
Cloud
Public Cloud Giants Fight For HPC Supremacy
Microsoft Azure has been able to put actual Cray XC series supercomputers and CS Storm clusters in the public cloud for more than two years now, and it is unclear how many companies have commissioned Cray, now part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, to do so. …
AI
Habana Takes Training And Inference Down Different Paths
Processor hardware for machine learning is in their early stages but it already taking different paths. …
Compute
Nvidia Readies For Battle In The Datacenter In 2020
If you were expecting Nvidia to start talking about its future “Ampere” or “Einstein” GPUs for Tesla accelerated computing soon just because AMD is getting ready to roll out “Navi” GPUs next year and Intel is working on its Xe GPU cards for delivery next year, too, you are going to have to wait a bit longer. …
Cloud
Bare Metal Cloud Takes the Fight To On-Premise HPC Clusters
In the HPC cloud business, Oracle is a relative newcomer. As we reported in November 2018, the company jumped into the fray less than a year ago with HPC bare metal servers hooked together with a 100 Gb/sec RDMA network. …
HPC
Inside Nvidia’s DGX SuperPOD Cluster
GPU chip maker Nvidia doesn’t just make the devices that end up in some of the largest supercomputers in the world. …