AI
Nvidia Declares That It Is A Full-Stack Platform
In a decade and a half, Nvidia has come a long way from its early days as a provider of graphics chips for personal computers and other consumer devices. …
GPU
Compute
The AMD “Aldebaran” GPU That Won Exascale
If you want to know how and why AMD motors have been chosen for so many of the pre-exascale and exascale HPC and AI systems, despite the dominance of Intel in CPUs and the dominance of Nvidia in GPUs, you need look no further for an answer than the new “Aldebaran” Instinct MI200 GPU accelerator from AMD and its Infinity Fabric 3.0 coherent interconnect that is being also added to selected Epyc CPUs. …
Compute
AMD Datacenter Sales Break Through $1 Billion In Q3
Here is a moment that Lisa Su, the chief executive officer who has lead the team that brought AMD back into the datacenter with the vigor the market needs, has been waiting six years for. …
Compute
AMD Draws 30X Efficiency Increase Line In The Datacenter Silicon
If you don’t measure something, you can’t manage it. And if you don’t set ambitious goals, then you can’t attain them. …
HPC
JAMSTEC Goes Hybrid On Many Vectors With Earth Simulator 4 Supercomputer
Sponsored When it comes to compute engines and network interconnects for supercomputers, there are lots of different choices available, but ultimately the nature of the applications — and how they evolve over time — will drive the technology choices that organizations make. …
Compute
Where China’s Long Road To Datacenter Compute Independence Leads
While we are big fans of laissez faire capitalism like that of the United States and sometimes Europe — right up to the point where monopolies naturally form and therefore competition essentially stops, and thus monopolists need to be regulated in some fashion to promote the common good as well as their own profits — we also see the benefits that accrue from a command economy like that which China has built over the past four decades. …
Compute
Intel’s “Ponte Vecchio” GPU Better Not Be A Bridge Too Far
It is pretty obvious to everyone who watches the IT market that Intel needs an architectural win that leads to a product win in datacenter compute. …
Compute
Maybe Nvidia Should Buy VMware Instead Of Intel
It is hard to imagine how anyone could run Nvidia better than it is being run right now. …
Compute
AMD Is Finally Trusted In The Datacenter Again
This is how a competitive chip market is supposed to look, and this is how a competitive chip maker recovers from faults, competes against a seemingly unassailable foe, and then rides up the revenue and income curves to be able to invest in the future and profit from the present. …
Compute
Intel Delays “Sapphire Rapids” Server Chips, Confirms HBM Memory Option
It is a relatively quiet International Supercomputing conference on the hardware front, with no new processors or switch ASICs being announced from the usual suspects. …