AI
Green Acres Is The Place For Larry
Some people are obsessed by crowd sizes, others by their net worth, and still others by the size of their AI datacenters. …
Oracle
Cloud
Oracle Runs OCI Clones At Rival AWS, Google, And Azure Clouds
It’s a multi-cloud world and one with a cloud infrastructure services market that is dominated by three large players. …
Cloud
Oracle Goes Massively Parallel, Low Cost With Exadata Exascale
Maybe, if you need blazing performance extracting data and chewing on it from a relational database, it belongs in a cloud. …
Cloud
Hyperscalers Bringing Nvidia’s Grace-Blackwell Superchip To Their Clouds
At his company’s GTC 2024 Technical Conference this week, Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang, unveiled the chip maker’s massive Blackwell GPUs and accompanying NVLink networking systems, promising a future where hyperscale cloud providers, HPC centers, and other organizations of size and means can meet the rapidly increasing compute demands driven by the emergence of generative AI. …
Cloud
Oracle Takes The Whole Nvidia AI Stack For Its Cloud
The top hyperscalers and clouds are rich enough to build out infrastructure on a global scale and create just about any kind of platform they feel like. …
Compute
Ampere’s IPO Filing Signals More Arm Cash And More Arm Scrutiny
There is a likelihood that we could see both British chip designer Arm Holdings and one of its server-focused startup adherents, Ampere Computing, go public this year, as indicated by recent rumors of the first and news from Ampere itself this morning that it has confidentially filed for an initial public offering. …
Compute
The Ghosts Of Itanium – And HPC – Give HPE Long Sought Profits
It may have taken the better part of a decade, but the Itanium platform has yielded the kinds of profits that Hewlett Packard Enterprise long sought and rarely attained. …
Compute
Oracle Still Hanging In There With Exadata Engineered Systems
It may not seem like it, but Oracle is still in the high-end server business, at least when it comes to big machines running its eponymous relational database. …
Store
Pushing Cloud MySQL Performance The Oracle Way
Managing MySQL databases in the cloud is no easy chore, according to Steve Zivanic, vice president of database and autonomous services at Oracle. …
AI
Ampere Computing Buys An AI Inference Performance Leap
Machine learning inference models have been running on X86 server processors from the very beginning of the latest – and by far the most successful – AI revolution, and the techies that know both hardware and software down to the minutest detail at the hyperscalers, cloud builders, and semiconductor manufacturers have been able to tune the software, jack the hardware, and retune for more than a decade. …