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The Age Of Edge Ops Is Upon Us

SPONSORED: DevOps has matured to the point in its evolution where its practitioners are often expected to play a full part in helping to make IT operations more agile. …

The Age Of Edge Ops Is Upon Us was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Energy Giant Eni Boosts Its HPC Oomph By An Order Of Magnitude

The big oil and gas companies of the world were among the earliest and most enthusiastic users of advanced machinery to do HPC simulation and modeling. …

Energy Giant Eni Boosts Its HPC Oomph By An Order Of Magnitude was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Big Blue Bucks The Datacenter Server Recession

Some patterns are very hard to break. From the very early days of the systems business as we know it, which started six decades ago, the fourth quarter of the calendar year has been the money maker for companies like IBM, and the second quarter has been a relatively big one for those who could not get their budgets together before the end of the prior year. …

Big Blue Bucks The Datacenter Server Recession was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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The Tough Road Still Ahead For Intel In The Datacenter

A few years back, when Intel went up on the rocks with its CPU and GPU designs largely because its chip research and manufacturing did not keep pace with the manufacturing and packaging advances made by foundry rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, we said that we were rapidly moving towards a world where Intel might have 40 percent of the CPU market, AMD might have 40 percent, and Arm and RISC-V would fight over the remaining 19 percent and 1 percent remaining for other exotic datacenter compute engine chippery. …

The Tough Road Still Ahead For Intel In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Cerebras To Ride The AI Wave To An IPO This Year?

Having commercialized its waferscale AI computing platform to a certain extent over the past several year, Cerebras Systems reportedly wants to get an initial public offering done before the AI hype peaks. …

Cerebras To Ride The AI Wave To An IPO This Year? was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.
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With Vista, TACC Now Has Three Paths To Its Future Horizon Supercomputer

The national supercomputing centers in the United States, Europe, and China are not only rich enough to build very powerful machines, but they are rich enough, thanks to their national governments, to underwrite and support multiple and somewhat incompatible architectures to hedge their bets and mitigate their risk. …

With Vista, TACC Now Has Three Paths To Its Future Horizon Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Supermicro Racks Up The AI Servers And Rakes In The Big Bucks

It was only six months ago when we were talking about how system maker Supermicro was breaking through a $10 billion annual revenue run rate and was setting its sights on a $20 billion target. …

Supermicro Racks Up The AI Servers And Rakes In The Big Bucks was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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How The “Antares” MI300 GPU Ramp Will Save AMD’s Datacenter Business

It is beginning to look like AMD’s Instinct datacenter GPU accelerator business is going to do a lot better in 2024 than many had expected and that the company’s initial forecasts given back in October anticipated. …

How The “Antares” MI300 GPU Ramp Will Save AMD’s Datacenter Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Cadence Sells Custom GPU Supercomputers To Run New CFD Code

If money and time were no object, every workload in every datacenter of the world would have hardware co-designed to optimally run it. …

Cadence Sells Custom GPU Supercomputers To Run New CFD Code was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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The Retail Edge Needs Resilient IT

COMMISSIONED: Retailers are using edge computing for a variety of use cases, collecting data from sensors, cameras and other devices and crunching the numbers with advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the customer experience and drive efficiencies. …

The Retail Edge Needs Resilient IT was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.

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A Tale Of Three Cloud Builders, All Seeking Dominance

While Amazon Web Services has first mover advantage when it comes to building a compute and storage cloud, it would be a mistake to believe that the division of the world’s largest online retailer can rest on its laurels. …

A Tale Of Three Cloud Builders, All Seeking Dominance was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Nvidia’s “Grace” Arm CPU Holds Its Own Against X86 For HPC

In many ways, the “Grace” CG100 server processor created by Nvidia – its first true server CPU and a very useful adjunct for extending the memory space of its “Hopper” GH100 GPU accelerators – was designed perfectly for HPC simulation and modeling workloads. …

Nvidia’s “Grace” Arm CPU Holds Its Own Against X86 For HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Server And Storage Spending Growth Looks Rosy Out To 2027

For a market that is so integral to the global economy, it sure is hard to get a complete dataset on quarterly and annual spending on information technology. …

Server And Storage Spending Growth Looks Rosy Out To 2027 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Making Dollars And Sense Of Arm Holdings

The only thing stronger than having absolute control, as happens in monopolies and oligopolies, is the strength that comes from numbers. …

Making Dollars And Sense Of Arm Holdings was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.