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Inside The Infrastructure That Microsoft Builds To Run AI

March 21, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Like the rest of the world, we have been watching Microsoft’s increasing use of foundation models as it transforms its services and software. …

Cloud

Cloud Builders Navigate A Sea Of Economic Uncertainty

August 5, 2022 Jeffrey Burt 0

In recent years, when the economy became unstable, enterprises tended to look to the cloud as a safe haven. …

Cloud

Google Follows Suit With Microsoft On Ampere Arm Instances

July 15, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

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. …

Store

Microsoft Azure Blazes The Disaggregated Memory Trail With zNUMA

July 11, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Dynamic allocation of resources inside of a system, within a cluster, and across clusters is a bin-packing nightmare for hyperscalers and cloud builders. …

AI

Once Again, Meta Buys Rather Than Builds A Supercomputer

May 25, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 7

For a company that has been so enthusiastic about designing and building its own infrastructure and datacenters, Meta Platforms, the parent company to Facebook as well as WhatsApp and Instagram and one of the champions of the metaverse virtual reality a lot of us first read about in Burning Chrome, sure has not been building its own AI supercomputers lately. …

Compute

The Looming Arm Server Battle Between AWS And Microsoft

April 5, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Wouldn’t it be funny if Google ends up being the stalwart supporter of the X86 architecture among the hyperscalers and cloud builders? …

Cloud

How Much Will Windows 365 PCs Drive Azure Infrastructure?

April 5, 2022 Brandon Vigliarolo 0

At some point, if Microsoft has its way, a substantial amount of computing that enterprise end users do on PCs could end up running in the cloud, and that could have a dramatic effect on the depth and breadth of the Azure cloud. …

HPC

NCAR Pits Azure Cloud Against Its Own Big Iron For Climate Models

February 23, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

When people think of supercomputers, they think of a couple of different performance vectors (pun intended), but usually the first thing they think of is the performance of a big, parallel machine as it runs one massive job scaling across tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of cores working in concert. …

Cloud

Microsoft Azure Brings the Cache with Milan-X

November 8, 2021 Nicole Hemsoth 0

Microsoft has been among the first to build and operationalize clusters based on AMD’s Milan-X processors, which were formally announced this morning. …

HPC

Microsoft Takes Sharper Aim at On-Prem HPC

July 26, 2021 Nicole Hemsoth 0

Microsoft is intent on bending the supercomputing set its direction. Instead of just focusing on competing with other public clouds, they’re aiming directly at on-prem HPC, showing comparable or better performance to existing top 10 supercomputers, for example. …

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