AI
There’s Still A Long Way To Go With Generative AI
The tech world is awash with generative AI, which for a company like Nvidia, is a good thing. …
Nvidia
AI
After The 2022 Bump, Arista Is Back To The Grind In 2023
For Arista Networks, the poster-child of hyperscaler and cloud build networking that, more than any other vendor, has championed merchant silicon and Linux as the basis of a modular network operating system, 2022 was a bumper crop year. …
Compute
Just How Big Are Nvidia’s Server And Networking Businesses?
In the absence of hard numbers, we have never been shy about making estimates because educated guesses is all you sometimes have to make a decision or to derive some kind of insight. …
Connect
Broadcom Takes On InfiniBand With Jericho3-AI Switch Chips
Variety is not only the spice of life, it is also the way to drive innovation and to mitigate risk. …
AI
Keeping Large Language Models From Running Off The Rails
The heady, exciting days of ChatGPT and other generative AI and large-language models (LLMs) is beginning to give way to the understanding that enterprises will need to get a tight grasp on how these models are being used in their operations or they will risk privacy, security, legal, and other problems down the road. …
Compute
Accelerating Chip Design With GPUs, And Adding AI To Push It Further
Two decades ago, all the chip makers, including Intel, had to buy Unix machines, usually massive ranks of Sparc/Solaris systems, to do electronic design automation to design and test their chip designs. …
HPC
Berkeley Lab Opens Bidding For Future NERSC-10 Exascale System
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, one of the key facilities of the US Department of Energy that drives supercomputing innovation and that spends big bucks so at least a few vendors will design and build them, has opened up the bidding on its future NERSC-10 exascale-class supercomputer. …
AI
A Peek Into The Future Of AI Inference At Nvidia
The best kinds of research are those that test new ideas and that also lead to practical innovations in real products. …
Compute
Preparing For Upcoming Hybrid Classical-Quantum Compute
If quantum computers are going to become a commercial thing sometime down the road – and there’s a lot of money and time going into the effort to make them viable for use by HPC organizations and enterprises – it’s increasingly likely that it will be in combination with classical computers. …
AI
Nvidia’s Four Workhorses Of The AI Inference Revolution
Last May, after we had done a deep dive on the “Hopper” H100 GPU accelerator architecture and as we were trying to reckon what Nvidia could charge for the PCI-Express and SXM5 variants of the GH100, we said that Nvidia needed to launch a Hopper-Hopper superchip. …