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The Least Crazy And Least Mean GenAI Model Will Win

It takes big money as well as big ideas to compete in the generative AI space. …

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Julia Still Not Grown Up Enough to Ride Exascale Train

We’ve been watching Julia, an HPC-oriented programming language designed for technical and scientific computing for a number of years to see it can make inroads into supercomputing. …

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Julia Still Not Grown Up Enough to Ride Exascale Train was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.

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Meta Platforms Is Determined To Make Ethernet Work For AI

We said it from the beginning: There is no way that Meta Platforms, the originator of the Open Compute Project, wanted to buy a complete supercomputer system from Nvidia in order to advance its AI research and move newer large language models and recommendation engines into production. …

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Meta Platforms Is Determined To Make Ethernet Work For AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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AI Means Re-Architecting The Datacenter Network

There are a lot of pressures on the datacenter network these days just to deal with expanding data and the increasing use of microservices architectures for modern applications. …

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AI Means Re-Architecting The Datacenter Network was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Sky-High Hurdles, Clouded Judgements for IaaS at Exascale

Back in 2009, I was the editor of a mini-side publication from supercomputing magazine, HPCwire, called HPC in the Cloud. …

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Sky-High Hurdles, Clouded Judgements for IaaS at Exascale was written by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett at The Next Platform.

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Supermicro At 30: From Designing AI Chips To Selling AI Systems

There is something about late September. Nvidia was founded 30 years ago on Tuesday this week, Google was founded 25 years ago on Wednesday, and Supermicro was founded 30 years ago today. …

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Supermicro At 30: From Designing AI Chips To Selling AI Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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The Geek is back! Everything you missed at the Intel Innovation Conference

SPONSORED POST: Intel’s flagship technology event – Intel Innovation – took place at the San Jose Convention Center in California earlier this month, with select content available on demand from September 27th for those who were unable to attend in-person. …

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The Geek is back! Everything you missed at the Intel Innovation Conference was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.

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Bringing AI To Reality

SPONSORED FEATURE: A sharp new tool being used more and more by creative enterprise IT teams, generative AI, has the potential to enable major advances in the way an enterprise conducts its business. …

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Bringing AI To Reality was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.

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Finally: The Roadmap To Profits For Nutanix

One of the reasons why we have been watching Nutanix since it dropped out of stealth mode in August 2011, two years after being founded, because we had a hunch that the upstart maker of a server-storage half-blood than banned the SAN from the datacenter would transform itself into a platform. …

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Finally: The Roadmap To Profits For Nutanix was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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The First Peeks At The DOE Post-Exascale Supercomputers

Other than Hewlett Packard Enterprise, who wants to build the future NERSC-10 supercomputer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory or the future OLCF-6 system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory? …

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The First Peeks At The DOE Post-Exascale Supercomputers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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The AI Boom Props Up Datacenter Infrastructure Spending

If there is one thing that is absolutely immune from inflationary curbs and that is, to a certain degree, also contributing to inflationary pressures in the global economy, it is generative AI. …

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Intel To Set Its FPGA Unit Free To Pursue Its Own Path

Maybe Intel chief executive officer Pat Gelsinger has spent too much time at EMC and VMware. …

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Intel To Set Its FPGA Unit Free To Pursue Its Own Path was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.