AI
AI Makes Liquid Cooling Normal – And Necessary – Again
All trends with AI point up and to the right, and usually pretty sharply. …
HPE
Connect
Even As Bandwidth Needs Explode, Ethernet Spending Is In Recession
No one like the R word, but we don’t shy away from data and calling it like we see it. …
Compute
Profiting From The GenAI Boom Is Tough Even If It Democratizes
Wall Street might have unreasonable expectations about how OEMs and ODMs can profit from the GenAI boom through selling GPU laden systems. …
HPC
Why The UK Should Have Its Own Exascale AI/HPC Machine, And How
We were away on vacation at a lakeside beach in northern Michigan when we caught the news that the UK government was pulling the plug on a plan for an exascale supercomputer to be installed at the EPCC at the University of Edinburgh. …
HPC
AIST Taps HPE And Nvidia For Next-Gen AI Cloud Machine
The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan is going to be installing the third generation of its AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure 3.0 supercomputer. …
AI
HPE Goes After Enterprise AI With Nvidia GPU Engines
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. …
Compute
HPE Is Also Having Trouble Making Money With AI Servers
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has always been more interested in providing a choice of compute engines compared to Dell, which was the underdog in servers for a long time. …
HPC
Companies Need On-Premise HPC – And For More Than AI, Too
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. …
HPC
Los Alamos Pushes The Memory Wall With “Venado” Supercomputer
Today is the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the “Venado” supercomputer, which was hinted at back in April 2021 when Nvidia announced its plans for its first datacenter-class Arm server CPU and which was talked about in some detail – but not really enough to suit our taste for speeds and feeds – back in May 2022 by the folks at Los Alamos National Laboratory where Venado is situated. …
Compute
Mixed Results For The Datacenter Thundering Thirteen In Q4
We have been tracking the financial results for the big players in the datacenter that are public companies for three and a half decades, but starting last year we started dicing and slicing the numbers for the largest IT suppliers for stuff that goes into datacenters so we can give you a better sense what is and what is not happening out there. …