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Argonne Aurora A21: All’s Well That Ends Better

When it comes to a lot of high performance computing systems we have seen over the decades, we are fond of saying that the hardware is the easy part. …

Argonne Aurora A21: All’s Well That Ends Better was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Photonics To Make Celestial HBM3 Memory Fabric

There is no shortage of silicon photonics technologies under development, and every few months it seems like another startup crops up promising massive bandwidth, over longer distances, while using less power than copper interconnects. …

Photonics To Make Celestial HBM3 Memory Fabric was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.

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With Huge Costs, Efficiency Is The Key To Mainstreaming Generative AI

The hype around generative AI is making every industry vibrate at an increasingly high pitch in a way that we have not seen since the days of the Dot Com boom and sock puppets. …

With Huge Costs, Efficiency Is The Key To Mainstreaming Generative AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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The $1 Billion And Higher Ante To Play The AI Game

If you want to get the attention of server makers and compute engine providers and especially if you are going to be building GPU-laden clusters with shiny new gear to drive AI training and possibly AI inference for large language models and recommendation engines, the first thing you need is $1 billion. …

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The $1 Billion And Higher Ante To Play The AI Game was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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AI To The Rescue For Server And Storage Spending In Q1

Here’s a fun question and don’t cheat by asking ChatGPT. What is more valuable, an ounce of gold or an ounce of an Nvidia “Hopper” H100 GPU accelerator? …

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AI To The Rescue For Server And Storage Spending In Q1 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
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PCI-Express Must Match The Cadence Of Compute Engines And Networks

When system architects sit down to design their next platforms, they start by looking at a bunch of roadmaps from suppliers of CPUs, accelerators, memory, flash, network interface cards – and PCI-Express controllers and switches. …

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PCI-Express Must Match The Cadence Of Compute Engines And Networks was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Lining Up The “El Capitan” Supercomputer Against The AI Upstarts

The question is no longer whether or not the “El Capitan” supercomputer that has been in the process of being installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for the past week – with photographic evidence to prove it – will be the most powerful system in the world. …

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Lining Up The “El Capitan” Supercomputer Against The AI Upstarts was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Giving Cloud Data Warehouses A Relational Knowledge Graph Overlay

The cloud has been a boon for enterprises trying to manage the massive amounts of data they collect every year. …

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Giving Cloud Data Warehouses A Relational Knowledge Graph Overlay was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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NCSA Builds Out Delta Supercomputer With An AI Extension

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois just fired up its Delta system back in April 2022, and now it has just been given $10 million by the National Science Foundation to expand that machine with an AI partition, called DeltaAI appropriately enough, that is based on Nvidia’s “Hopper” H100 GPU accelerators. …

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NCSA Builds Out Delta Supercomputer With An AI Extension was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Microsoft’s Chiplet Cloud To Bring The Cost Of LLMs Way Down

If Nvidia and AMD are licking their lips thinking about all of the GPUs they can sell to Microsoft to support its huge aspirations in generative AI – particularly when it comes to the OpenAI GPT large language model that is the centerpiece of all of the company’s future software and services – they had better think again. …

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Microsoft’s Chiplet Cloud To Bring The Cost Of LLMs Way Down was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Linux Is The Next Platform, But Who Pays To Maintain It?

Red Hat has once again dropped another huge boulder into the normally serene – or at least relatively calm – open source waters. …

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Linux Is The Next Platform, But Who Pays To Maintain It? was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.