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Ampere Gets Out In Front Of X86 With 192-Core “Siryn” AmpereOne

The largest clouds will always have to buy X86 processors from Intel or AMD so long as the enterprises of the world – and the governments and educational institutions who also consume a fair number of servers – have X86 applications that are not easily ported to Arm or RISC-V architectures. …

Ampere Gets Out In Front Of X86 With 192-Core “Siryn” AmpereOne was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Meta Platforms Crafts Homegrown AI Inference Chip, AI Training Next

As we pointed out a year ago when some key silicon experts were hired from Intel and Broadcom to come work for Meta Platforms, the company formerly known as Facebook was always the most obvious place to do custom silicon. …

Meta Platforms Crafts Homegrown AI Inference Chip, AI Training Next was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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How AI Is Going To Change Supercomputer Rankings Even More

The interesting thing about the June 2023 rankings of the world’s most powerful supercomputers is not how it really has not changed all that much in the past six months, or that the June list is coming out in May. …

How AI Is Going To Change Supercomputer Rankings Even More was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Aurora Rising: A Massive Machine For HPC And AI

As long as great science gets done on the final incarnation of the “Aurora” supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory, based on Intel’s CPUs and GPUs but not on its now defunct Omni-Path interconnect, people will eventually forget all of – well, most of – the grief that it took to get the massive machine to market. …

Aurora Rising: A Massive Machine For HPC And AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Boosting AI Storage With QLC Flash And Deduplication

A few years ago, DirectData Networks gave us a hint at the tectonic-like shifts that were emerging in datacenters at enterprises and high-end research institutions and were shaping the strategy of a company that had made its name in HPC with its parallel file system technology. …

Boosting AI Storage With QLC Flash And Deduplication was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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In The Multicloud World, The Data’s The Thing

When three years ago Dell rolled out its Apex initiative, the massive IT supplier was joining a growing list of tech companies like HPE, Lenovo, and Cisco who were adapting to a rapidly expanding multicloud world by making their product portfolios available in a cloud-like, as-a-service model. …

In The Multicloud World, The Data’s The Thing was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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Nvidia Hints At Upcoming AI-Focused Spectrum-4 Ethernet

It is no surprise at all that Nvidia’s datacenter business is making money hang over fist right now as generative AI makes machine learning a household word and is giving us something akin to a Dot Com Boom in the glass houses of the world. …

Nvidia Hints At Upcoming AI-Focused Spectrum-4 Ethernet was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Isambard 3 To Put Nvidia’s “Grace” CPU Through The HPC Paces

Not all important supercomputers are on the twice-a-year Top500 rankings of machines. …

Isambard 3 To Put Nvidia’s “Grace” CPU Through The HPC Paces was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Nvidia’s Grace-Hopper Hybrid Systems Bring Huge Memory To Bear

If you were hoping to get your hands on one of Nvidia’s “Grace” Arm-based CPUs, then you better be prepared to buy a pretty big machine. …

Nvidia’s Grace-Hopper Hybrid Systems Bring Huge Memory To Bear was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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MGX: Nvidia Standardizes Multi-Generation Server Designs

Whenever a compute engine maker also does motherboards as well as system designs, those companies that make motherboards (there are dozens who do) and create system designs (the original design manufacturers and the original – get a little bit nervous as well as a bit relieved. …

MGX: Nvidia Standardizes Multi-Generation Server Designs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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The Balancing Act Of HPE’s Systems Business

There is perhaps no better logo for Hewlett Packard Enterprise than the box. …

The Balancing Act Of HPE’s Systems Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.