Compute
HBM Gives Xeon SPs A Big Boost On Bandwidth Bound Work
If there is one bright spot in the Xeon SP server chip line from Intel, it is the version of the “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon SP processor that has HBM memory welded to it. …
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AI
With AI, You Need To See The Bigger Hardware And Software Picture
Sponsored Feature: It’s a decade and a half since researchers dazzled the tech world by demonstrating that GPUs could be used to dramatically accelerate key AI operations. …
Compute
One New Feature For Intel’s HPC Compute Engines: Contrition
It is very rare for any of the major semiconductor suppliers of the world to ever admit that things are going wrong, even when we all know that they have been. …
Compute
The Iron That Will Drive AI At Meta Platforms
If there is one thing that is consistently true about HPC clusters for the past thirty years and for AI training systems for the past decade, it is as workloads grow, the network becomes increasingly important – and perhaps as important as packing as much flops in a node as physically and thermally makes sense. …
Compute
Different GPU Horses For Different Datacenter Courses
If the semiconductor business teaches us anything, it is that volumes matter more than architecture. …
Compute
The Steady Hand Guiding AMD’s “Prudently Expanding” Datacenter Business
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. …
AI
Nvidia’s “Lovelace” GPU Enters The Datacenter Through The Metaverse
Like everyone else on planet Earth, we were expecting for the next generation of graphics cards based on the “Ada Lovelace” architecture to be announced at the GTC fall 2022 conference this week, but we did not expect for the company to deliver a passively cooled, datacenter server friendly variant of the GeForce RTX 6000 series quite so fast. …
AI
The “Hopper” GPU Compute Ramp Finally Starts
You can’t be certain about a lot of things in the world these days, but one thing you can count on is the voracious appetite for parallel compute, high bandwidth memory, and high bandwidth networking for AI training workloads. …
Compute
GPU Engines Are So Strategic China Will Have To Use Its Own
China is the world’s second largest economy, it has the world’s largest population, and it is only a matter of time before has a world-class technology ecosystem spanning the smallest transistors to the largest hyperscale and HPC systems. …
Compute
China Launches The Inevitable Indigenous GPU
It was absolutely inevitable that China would try to create its own GPU compute engines. …