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Taking Another Stab At Massively Parallel Data Analytics

For many years, and quite a long time ago in computer time, Hadoop was seen as the best way to store and analyze mountains of unstructured data. …

Taking Another Stab At Massively Parallel Data Analytics was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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Nvidia Bends The Clouds To Its Own Financial Will

Nvidia is not rich enough – or dumb enough – to build a cloud to rival the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud. …

Nvidia Bends The Clouds To Its Own Financial Will was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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Inside The Infrastructure That Microsoft Builds To Run AI

Like the rest of the world, we have been watching Microsoft’s increasing use of foundation models as it transforms its services and software. …

Inside The Infrastructure That Microsoft Builds To Run AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Nvidia’s Four Workhorses Of The AI Inference Revolution

Last May, after we had done a deep dive on the “Hopper” H100 GPU accelerator architecture and as we were trying to reckon what Nvidia could charge for the PCI-Express and SXM5 variants of the GH100, we said that Nvidia needed to launch a Hopper-Hopper superchip. …

Nvidia’s Four Workhorses Of The AI Inference Revolution was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Is This The End Of The Line For NEC Vector Supercomputers?

There is some chatter – some might call it well-informed speculation – going on out there on the Intertubes that Japanese system maker NEC is shutting down its “Aurora” Vector Engine vector processor business. …

Is This The End Of The Line For NEC Vector Supercomputers? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Preparing For Upcoming Hybrid Classical-Quantum Compute

If quantum computers are going to become a commercial thing sometime down the road – and there’s a lot of money and time going into the effort to make them viable for use by HPC organizations and enterprises – it’s increasingly likely that it will be in combination with classical computers. …

Preparing For Upcoming Hybrid Classical-Quantum Compute was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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More Power To You – Energy Efficiently

Every year, a fairly large portion of the several tens of millions of servers running in the world needs to be replaced because the cost of using the old machinery can be higher than buying in the new machinery – and this can be true even if the old kit is entirely paid for and completely depreciated. …

More Power To You – Energy Efficiently was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Docker Helped Invent Containers, And Is Now Reinventing Itself

Containers are still the hot new technology in the datacenter to some, but many of the pieces and parts that eventually would find their way into today’s container platforms have long-since been used by enterprises and developers thanks to Docker. …

Docker Helped Invent Containers, And Is Now Reinventing Itself was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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Power to the engineering people

The value of great engineering is often overlooked, yet almost every object we use on a daily basis has been meticulously designed and tested by somebody somewhere to deliver the best possible performance and meet exacting cost and efficiency requirements. …

Power to the engineering people was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.

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The Dream Of Placing Blocks On Chip Designs With AI

Similar to interior designers trying to fit the chairs, tables, and other furniture in rooms inside of a home, chip designers have to figure out where the various bits and pieces of a processor will lie on confined floor plans where latency between parts matters. …

The Dream Of Placing Blocks On Chip Designs With AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.