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RISC-V In The Datacenter Is No Risky Proposition

It was only a matter of time, perhaps, but the skyrocketing costs of designing chips is colliding with the ever-increasing need for performance, price/performance, and performance per watt. …

RISC-V In The Datacenter Is No Risky Proposition was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Why AI Inference Will Remain Largely On The CPU

Sponsored Feature: Training an AI model takes an enormous amount of compute capacity coupled with high bandwidth memory. …

Why AI Inference Will Remain Largely On The CPU was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.

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Money Changes Everything For SiPearl

If you think designing a new CPU from scratch is hard, you ought to try raising money to do it. …

Money Changes Everything For SiPearl was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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The Crazy Eights Of Large Language Models

We read a fairly large number of technical papers here at The Next Platform, and it is a rare thing indeed when we can recommend that everyone – or damned near everyone – should read a paper. …

The Crazy Eights Of Large Language Models was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Energy Efficiency Pays Its Way In The Datacenter

SPONSORED POST Over the past decade, the heat generated by server CPUs has increased by 3.5X and now is pushing 500 watts. …

Energy Efficiency Pays Its Way In The Datacenter was written by Elyse at The Next Platform.

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Internet-Scale Video Requires Its Own Kind Of Supercomputing

Video has taken over the Internet, with almost 80 percent or so of the traffic being video. …

Internet-Scale Video Requires Its Own Kind Of Supercomputing was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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Where Financial Models Meet Large Language Models

If you are a Global 20,000 company and you want to build a large language model that is specifically tuned to your business, the first thing you need is a corpus of your own textual data on which to train that LLM. …

Where Financial Models Meet Large Language Models was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Climate Simulation Screams On The Frontier Exascale Supercomputer

We will always complain about the weather. It is part of the human condition. …

Climate Simulation Screams On The Frontier Exascale Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Berkeley Lab Opens Bidding For Future NERSC-10 Exascale System

The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, one of the key facilities of the US Department of Energy that drives supercomputing innovation and that spends big bucks so at least a few vendors will design and build them, has opened up the bidding on its future NERSC-10 exascale-class supercomputer. …

Berkeley Lab Opens Bidding For Future NERSC-10 Exascale System was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Nuclear Weapons Drove Supercomputing, And May Now Drive It Into The Clouds

If the HPC community didn’t write the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1996, it would have been necessary to invent it. …

Nuclear Weapons Drove Supercomputing, And May Now Drive It Into The Clouds was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.