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HashiCorp Retools Licenses And Software To Grow Its Business

It is hard to make a living in the open source software business, although it is possible, through the contributions of many, to make great software.…

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Just How Big – Or Small – Is The Quantum Computing Racket?

There is no question in our minds here at The Next Platform that quantum computing, in some fashion, will be part of the workflow for solving some of the peskiest computational problems the world can think of. …

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Just How Big – Or Small – Is The Quantum Computing Racket? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Is Mojo The Fortran For AI Programming, Or More?

When Jim Keller talks about compute engines, you listen. And when Keller name drops a programming language and AI runtime environment, as he did in a recent interview with us, you do a little research and you also keep an eye out for developments. …

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Is Mojo The Fortran For AI Programming, Or More? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Optimizing AI Inference Is As Vital As Building AI Training Beasts

The history of computing teaches us that software always and necessarily lags hardware, and unfortunately that lag can stretch for many years when it comes to wringing the best performance out of iron by tweaking algorithms. …

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Optimizing AI Inference Is As Vital As Building AI Training Beasts was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Other Than Nvidia, Who Will Use Arm’s Neoverse V2 Core?

We are still plowing through the many, many presentions from the Hot Interconnects, Hot Chips, Google Cloud Next, and Meta Networking @ Scale conferences that all happened recently and at essentially the same time. …

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Supply Chain Easing Creates Ethernet Switching Boom

There are a lot of things going on in the datacenter and campus interconnect markets, but one of the weirder things we observe from the most recent market data coming out of IDC about the Ethernet portion of this market is that it is like a country music record being played backwards. …

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Supply Chain Easing Creates Ethernet Switching Boom was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Enfabrica Nabs $125 Million To Ramp Networking Godbox

For the past decade or so, we have been convinced by quite a large number of IT suppliers that security functions, network and storage virtualization functions, and even the server virtualization hypervisor for carving up compute itself should be offloaded from servers to intermediaries somewhat illogically called data processing units, or DPUs. …

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Enfabrica Nabs $125 Million To Ramp Networking Godbox was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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China’s 1.5 Exaflops Supercomputer Chases Gordon Bell Prize – Again

The Association for Computing Machinery has just put out the finalists for the Gordon Bell Prize award that will be given out at the SC23 supercomputing conference in Denver, and as you might expect, some of the biggest iron assembled in the world are driving the advanced applications that have their eyes on the prize. …

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China’s 1.5 Exaflops Supercomputer Chases Gordon Bell Prize – Again was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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AMD Finishes Out The Zen4 Server CPUs With Edgy “Siena”

Different workloads need different mixes of price, performance, thermals, and longevity in the field out there on the edge and in the datacenter, and that is why server CPU makers for years have had a mix of processors that deliver on these vectors that are different from each other. …

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AMD Finishes Out The Zen4 Server CPUs With Edgy “Siena” was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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The New UXL Foundation’s Has a Bold Blueprint for Open Acceleration

Heterogeneous computing is clearly here to stay but now’s the time to get down to brass tacks and start addressing standards, portability, and other elements common to maturing technologies. …

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The New UXL Foundation’s Has a Bold Blueprint for Open Acceleration was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.