AI
HPE Walks Away From Risky $700 Million AI Deal
This probably happens more than we know, but sometimes OEMs and ODMs walk away from big deals because something is fishy. …
AI
AI
The Datacenter Is The Accelerator
There is a fractal nature in modern computing that is only becoming more and more apparent as workloads have long since outstripped the capacity of a single server. …
Compute
Marvell Pivots To AI Silicon, Looks Poised To Profit
It is hard to bet against the GenAI boom, and thus far it is also hard for anyone other than Nvidia to profit from it. …
AI
AMD ROCm 6.3 Has Goodies For AI Aficionados And HPC Gurus Alike
Speeds and feeds are great, but hardware is only as useful as the software that can harness it, and, for AMD, that’s the ROCm software stack. …
HPC
HPC Market Bigger Than Expected, And Growing Faster
As far as we have been concerned since founding The Next Platform literally a decade ago this week, AI training and inference in the datacenter are a kind of HPC. …
Connect
UEC Doesn’t Want To Kill InfiniBand, But It Wants Ethernet To Beat It
Welcome to the second part in our series of chats with J Metz, chair of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium. …
AI
The Collaboration That Will Drive Ethernet Into The HPC And AI Future
Any time you can get a lot of companies with very technically adept and strongly opinionated people to work together on a problem, or a set of problems, then you know for a fact that there is a real problem. …
Connect
The Back End AI Network Puts Pressure On The Front End
For most of the history of high performance computing, a supercomputer was a freestanding, isolated machine that was designed to run some simulation or model and the only link it needed to the outside world was a relatively small one to show some visualization. …
AI
You Are Paying The Clouds To Build Better AI Than They Will Rent You
Think of it as the ultimate offload model.
One of the geniuses of the cloud – perhaps the central genius – is that a big company that would have a large IT budget, perhaps on the order of hundreds of millions of dollars per year, and that has a certain amount of expertise creates a much, much larger IT organization with billions of dollars – and with AI now tens of billions of dollars – in investments and rents out the vast majority of that capacity to third parties, who essentially allow that original cloud builder to get their own IT operations for close to free. …
Compute
Intel Takes The Big Restructuring Hits As It Looks Ahead
It is beginning to look like chip maker Intel hit the bottom in its products and foundry businesses in the second quarter of this year and that revenues are slowly – we won’t go so far as to say surely – improving. …