Tobias Mann, Author at The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/author/tobias/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Tue, 21 Jan 2025 17:13:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.nextplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-PlatformStack-150x150.jpg Tobias Mann, Author at The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/author/tobias/ 32 32 86113652 AMD ROCm 6.3 Has Goodies For AI Aficionados And HPC Gurus Alike https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/26/amd-rocm-6-3-has-goodies-for-ai-aficionados-and-hpc-gurus-alike/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/26/amd-rocm-6-3-has-goodies-for-ai-aficionados-and-hpc-gurus-alike/#comments Tue, 26 Nov 2024 17:00:45 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145063 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. …

AMD ROCm 6.3 Has Goodies For AI Aficionados And HPC Gurus Alike was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/26/amd-rocm-6-3-has-goodies-for-ai-aficionados-and-hpc-gurus-alike/feed/ 1 145063 Celestial AI Wants To Break The Memory Wall, Fuse HBM With DDR5 https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/04/celestial-ai-wants-to-break-the-memory-wall-fuse-hbm-with-ddr5/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/04/celestial-ai-wants-to-break-the-memory-wall-fuse-hbm-with-ddr5/#comments Thu, 04 Apr 2024 13:39:13 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143913 In 2024, there is no shortage of interconnects if you need to stitch tens, hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of accelerators together. …

Celestial AI Wants To Break The Memory Wall, Fuse HBM With DDR5 was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/04/celestial-ai-wants-to-break-the-memory-wall-fuse-hbm-with-ddr5/feed/ 3 143913 Lambda Snags $320 Million To Grow Its Rent-A-GPU Cloud https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/02/16/lambda-snags-320-million-to-grow-its-rent-a-gpu-cloud/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/02/16/lambda-snags-320-million-to-grow-its-rent-a-gpu-cloud/#comments Fri, 16 Feb 2024 19:20:34 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143666 Riding high on the AI hype cycle, Lambda – formerly known as Lambda Labs and well known to readers of The Next Platform – has received a $320 million cash infusion to expand its GPU cloud to support training clusters spanning thousands of Nvidia’s top specced accelerators. …

Lambda Snags $320 Million To Grow Its Rent-A-GPU Cloud was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/02/16/lambda-snags-320-million-to-grow-its-rent-a-gpu-cloud/feed/ 3 143666 Cerebras To Ride The AI Wave To An IPO This Year? https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/01/29/cerebras-to-ride-the-ai-wave-to-an-ipo-this-year/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/01/29/cerebras-to-ride-the-ai-wave-to-an-ipo-this-year/#respond Mon, 29 Jan 2024 16:40:29 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143554 Having commercialized its waferscale AI computing platform to a certain extent over the past several year, Cerebras Systems reportedly wants to get an initial public offering done before the AI hype peaks. …

Cerebras To Ride The AI Wave To An IPO This Year? was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/01/29/cerebras-to-ride-the-ai-wave-to-an-ipo-this-year/feed/ 0 143554 Expect Datacenters To Get Denser, Hotter, And Smarter https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/01/22/expect-datacenters-to-get-denser-hotter-and-smarter/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/01/22/expect-datacenters-to-get-denser-hotter-and-smarter/#comments Mon, 22 Jan 2024 14:37:35 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143515 The datacenter industry today looks very different than it did a decade ago. …

Expect Datacenters To Get Denser, Hotter, And Smarter was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/01/22/expect-datacenters-to-get-denser-hotter-and-smarter/feed/ 4 143515 Combining AI With HPC To Find Better Battery Designs https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/01/12/combining-ai-with-hpc-to-find-better-battery-designs/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/01/12/combining-ai-with-hpc-to-find-better-battery-designs/#respond Fri, 12 Jan 2024 22:02:05 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143490 The melding of low and high precision mathematics to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery has been a topic of discussion for some time now. …

Combining AI With HPC To Find Better Battery Designs was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/01/12/combining-ai-with-hpc-to-find-better-battery-designs/feed/ 0 143490 Sometimes The Best AI Accelerator Is The 37,888 GPUs You Already Have https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/01/10/sometimes-the-best-ai-accelerator-is-the-37888-gpus-you-already-have/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/01/10/sometimes-the-best-ai-accelerator-is-the-37888-gpus-you-already-have/#comments Wed, 10 Jan 2024 18:48:46 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143478 For traditional HPC workloads, AMD’s MI250X is still a powerhouse when it comes to double precision floating point grunt. …

Sometimes The Best AI Accelerator Is The 37,888 GPUs You Already Have was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/01/10/sometimes-the-best-ai-accelerator-is-the-37888-gpus-you-already-have/feed/ 3 143478 How Lightmatter Breaks Bandwidth Bottlenecks With Silicon Photonics https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/01/04/how-lightmatter-breaks-bandwidth-bottlenecks-with-silicon-photonics/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/01/04/how-lightmatter-breaks-bandwidth-bottlenecks-with-silicon-photonics/#comments Thu, 04 Jan 2024 17:21:58 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143455 Without question, the biggest bottleneck in artificial intelligence and for a lot of HPC workloads today is bandwidth. …

How Lightmatter Breaks Bandwidth Bottlenecks With Silicon Photonics was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/01/04/how-lightmatter-breaks-bandwidth-bottlenecks-with-silicon-photonics/feed/ 4 143455 University Of Stuttgart Spends €115 Million To Go Exascale https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/12/20/university-of-stuttgart-spends-e115m-to-go-exascale/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/12/20/university-of-stuttgart-spends-e115m-to-go-exascale/#comments Wed, 20 Dec 2023 14:53:12 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143421 The University of Stuttgart’s High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) in Germany has tapped Hewlett Packard Enterprise to build a pair of its next-generation supercomputers. …

University Of Stuttgart Spends €115 Million To Go Exascale was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/12/20/university-of-stuttgart-spends-e115m-to-go-exascale/feed/ 4 143421 HPC Pioneers Pave The Way For A Flood Of Arm Supercomputers https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/11/28/hpc-pioneers-pave-the-way-for-a-flood-of-arm-supercomputers/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/11/28/hpc-pioneers-pave-the-way-for-a-flood-of-arm-supercomputers/#comments Tue, 28 Nov 2023 15:11:03 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143303 Over the past few years, the Arm architecture has made steady gains, particularly among the hyperscalers and cloud builders. …

HPC Pioneers Pave The Way For A Flood Of Arm Supercomputers was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.

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