The companies under the control of Elon Musk – SpaceX, Tesla, xAI, and X (formerly known as Twitter) – all need a hell of a lot of GPUs, and all for their own specific AI or HPC projects. …
There is a seemingly endless list of problems to be solved and issues to be addressed in vendors’ steady march toward quantum computing. …
Back in 2012, when AMD was in the process of backing out of the datacenter CPU business and did not really have its datacenter GPU act together at all, the US Department of Energy exhibited the enlightened self-interest that is a strong foundation of both economics and politics and took a chance and invested in AMD to do research in memory technologies and hybrid CPU-GPU computing at exascale. …
This week is another major conference for a server OEM, and that must mean it is another time for an OEM to announce its tight partnership with AI compute engine juggernaut Nvidia. …
Computex, the annual conference in Taiwan to showcase the island nation’s vast technology business, has been transformed into what amounts to a half-time show for the datacenter IT year. …
There are many things that are unique about Nvidia at this point in the history of computing, networking, and graphics. …
Generative AI and the various capacity and latency needs it has for compute and storage is muscling out almost every other topic when conversations turn to HPC and enterprise. …
It is not a coincidence that the companies that got the most “Hopper” H100 allocations from Nvidia in 2023 were also the hyperscalers and cloud builders, who in many cases wear both hats and who are as interested in renting out their GPU capacity for others to build AI models as they are in innovating in the development of large language models. …
While a lot of people focus on the floating point and integer processing architectures of various kinds of compute engines, we are spending more and more of our time looking at memory hierarchies and interconnect hierarchies. …
If you want to take on Nvidia on its home turf of AI processing, then you had better bring more than your A game. …
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