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. …
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. …
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. …
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. …
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. …
Managing MySQL databases in the cloud is no easy chore, according to Steve Zivanic, vice president of database and autonomous services at Oracle. …
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. …
If you want to break into datacenter compute in a sustainable way, it takes the patience of a glacier. …
For a long time, datacenter compute has been the very picture of stability – Intel-based servers running enterprise workloads in central facilities. …
For Karan Batta, the much-talked-about wide adoption of cloud computing in the HPC space is really like a game of dominos. …
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