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The Interplay Of GDP, Inflation, And IT Spending

Data changes behavior and behavior changes data. It is a phenomenon that is akin to the Observer Effect in physics in that you can’t observe something without changing its behavior. …

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Nvidia Gooses Grace-Hopper GPU Memory, Gangs Them Up For LLM

If large language models are the foundation of a new programming model, as Nvidia and many others believe it is, then the hybrid CPU-GPU compute engine is the new general purpose computing platform. …

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Nvidia: There’s A New Kid In Datacenter Town

Unless you were born sometime during World War II, you have never seen anything like this before from a computing system manufacturer. …

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Cornelis Unveils Ambitious Omni-Path Interconnect Roadmap

As we are fond of pointing out, when it comes to high performance, low latency InfiniBand-style networks, Nvidia is not the only choice in town and has not been since the advent of InfiniBand interconnects back in the late 1990s. …

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Everybody Tries To Leverage VMware To Their Advantage

Our choice of words in founding this publication nearly a decade ago were no accident. …

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Everybody Tries To Leverage VMware To Their Advantage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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The Next 100X For AI Hardware Performance Will Be Harder

For those of us who like hardware and were hoping for a big reveal about the TPUv5e AI processor and surrounding system, interconnect, and software stack at the Hot Chips 2023 this week, the opening keynote by Jeff Dean and Amin Vahdat, two of the most important techies at Google, was a bit of a disappointment but did give us some food for AI thought experiments just the same. …

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The Edge Propels HPE While Datacenter Taps The Brakes

Customers of Hewlett Packard Enterprise have one foot on the gas and one foot on the brakes at the same time that the company is transitioning from selling gear outright to customers to selling them subscriptions that spread the cost – and therefore HPE’s recognized revenues – out over time. …

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Arm Gets Closer To Creating Full-Blown Server CPU Designs

It takes too long to get a new compute engine in the field, and everybody complains about it. …

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Dell Making The Most Of Its GPU Allocations, Like Everyone Else

In a world where Nvidia is allocating proportional shares of its GPU hotcakes to all of the OEMs and ODMs, companies like Dell, Hewlett Packard, Lenovo, and Supermicro get their shares and then they turn around and try to sell systems using them at the highest possible price. …

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What Would You Do With A 16.8 Million Core Graph Processing Beast?

If you look back at it now, especially with the advent of massively parallel computing on GPUs, maybe the techies at Tera Computing and then Cray had the right idea with their “ThreadStorm” massively threaded processors and high bandwidth interconnects. …

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