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Ethernet Consortium Shoots For 1 Million Node Clusters That Beat InfiniBand

July 20, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 12

Here we go again. Some big hyperscalers and cloud builders and their ASIC and switch suppliers are unhappy about Ethernet, and rather than wait for the IEEE to address issues, they are taking matters in their own hands to create what will ultimately become an IEEE standard that moves Ethernet forward in a direction and speed of their choosing. …

AI

Chiplet Cloud Can Bring The Cost Of LLMs Way Down

July 12, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 18

If Nvidia and AMD are licking their lips thinking about all of the GPUs they can sell to the hyperscalers and cloud builders to support their huge aspirations in generative AI – particularly when it comes to the OpenAI GPT large language model that is the centerpiece of all of the company’s future software and services – they had better think again. …

AI

Lining Up The “El Capitan” Supercomputer Against The AI Upstarts

July 10, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 15

The question is no longer whether or not the “El Capitan” supercomputer that has been in the process of being installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for the past week – with photographic evidence to prove it – will be the most powerful system in the world. …

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The Big Clouds Get First Dibs On AMD “Genoa” Chips

June 16, 2023 Jeffrey Burt 1

The expanded lineup of AMD’s 4th generation “Genoa” Epyc server chips – built atop “Zen 4” core and some with the chip maker’s L3-boosting 3D V-Cache – unveiled at a high-profile event in San Francisco this week is quickly making its way into the cloud. …

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Cerebras Smashes AI Wide Open, Countering Hypocrites

March 29, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 9

We could have a long, thoughtful, and important conversation about the way AI is transforming the world. …

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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. …

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Meta Platforms Spent Over $1 Billion On Arista Networking In 2022

February 15, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

The hyperscalers and cloud builders are the toughest customers in the IT sector, demanding the highest performance at the lowest price and an ever-improving ratio between the two. …

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What Do We Do When Compute And Memory Stop Getting Cheaper?

January 18, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 12

The IT industry, like every other industry we suppose, is in a constant state of dealing with the next bottleneck. …

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Making It Easier To Break The SONiC Barrier For Networking

January 9, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Thanks to the ubiquity of the X86 server platform, the Kubernetes container controller, and the KVM server virtualization hypervisor, it is relatively easy to compute like a hyperscaler or cloud builder. …

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Hyperscalers And Clouds Lift Arista Networks Sky High

November 1, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

A massive buildout of infrastructure is happening within the datacenter walls of at least several of the hyperscalers and large clouds in the world if the financial results of Arista Networks, the upstart switch maker that has been taking on Cisco Systems in the datacenter with machines based on merchant silicon for more than a decade. …

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