AI
Broadcom Goes Wide With AI Systems And Takes On The ODMs
If it seems like OpenAI is shaking up the IT market every other day or so, that is because that is precisely what it is doing. …
TItan
Connect
Cisco Takes On Broadcom, Nvidia For Fat AI Datacenter Interconnects
Wide area networks and datacenter interconnects, or DCIs, as we have known them for the past decade or so are nowhere beefy enough or fast enough to take on the job of scaling AI training workloads across multiple datacenters. …
Compute
OpenAI Lays Out The Principles Of Global-Scale Computing
If AI is to become pervasive, as the model builders and datacenter builders who are investing enormous sums of money are clearly banking on it to be, then it really goes have to be a global phenomenon. …
Compute
Broadcom Lands Shepherding Deal For OpenAI “Titan” XPU
Broadcom turned in its financial results for its third quarter last night, and all of the tongues in the IT sector are wagging about how the chip maker and enterprise software giant has landed a fourth customer for its burgeoning custom XPU design and shepherding business. …
HPC
Frontier: Step By Step, Over Decades, To Exascale
Any time you build anything with more than 60 million parts, it is going to be a headache. …
Compute
AMD Deepens Its Already Broad Epyc Server Chip Roadmap
The hyperscalers, cloud builders, HPC centers, and OEM server manufacturers of the world who build servers for everyone else all want, more than anything else, competition between component suppliers and a regular, predictable, almost boring cadence of new component introductions. …
AI
Opening The Aperture On The World With Summit
We have spent the past several years speculating about what the “Summit” supercomputer built by IBM, Nvidia, and Mellanox Technologies for the US Department of Energy and installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory might be. …
Compute
Getting To The Root Of Security With Trusted Silicon
The increasingly distributed nature of computing and the rapid growth in the number of the small connected devices that make up the Internet of Things (IoT) are combining with trends like the rise of silicon-level vulnerabilities highlighted by Spectre, Meltdown, and more recent variants to create an expanding and fluid security landscape that’s difficult for enterprises to navigate. …
Code
A First Look at Summit Supercomputer Application Performance
Big iron aficionados packed the room when ORNL’s Jack Wells gave the latest update on the upcoming 207 petaflops Summit supercomputer at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC18) this week. …
AI
Scaling Deep Learning on an 18,000 GPU Supercomputer
It is one thing to scale a neural network on a single GPU or even a single system with four or eight GPUs. …