This week, Amazon Web Services announced the availability of its first UltraServer pre-configured supercomputers based on Nvidia’s “Grace” CG100 CPUs and its “Blackwell” B200 GPUs in what is called a GB200 NVL72 shared GPU memory configuration. These machines are known as the U-P6e instances, and come in full rack and …
One of the biggest questions that enterprises, governments, academic institutions, and HPC centers the world over are going to have to answer very soon – if they have not made the decision already – is if they are going to train their own AI models and the inference software stacks …
AI has the power to transform how organizations derive insights, make decisions, and unlock value, but all that depends on the quality of the data. Most AI initiatives fail not because of algorithmic limitations, but because of messy, fragmented, and poorly prepared data. It’s like an orchard that cannot cross-pollinate …
The European Union cannot practically declare its independence from Nvidia GPUs any more than any other nation can at this point. It is just too difficult to ramp up a diverse AI and HPC software stack on any kind of massively parallel device with high bandwidth memory. AMD may be …
There are definitely easier businesses to be in than operating a neocloud. For one thing, the makers of AI accelerators, which are driving around half of systems sales worldwide these days, are hell bent in getting new compute engines in the field every year, which plays havoc with the street …
With AI being the biggest change in IT infrastructure since the Dot Com boom, it was no surprise that at the annual Cisco Live event last month in San Diego, the focus was on AI – and particularly agentic AI – and how the networking giant differentiates itself from other …
It has taken the better part of a year and a half and some wrangling with the US Department of Justice to get it done, but Hewlett Packard Enterprise has finally completed its $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks. Let the integration begin! The new HPE Networking business that will …
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The biggest challenge to AI initiatives is the data they rely on. More powerful computing and higher-capacity storage at lower cost has created a flood of information, and not all of it is clean. It is often fragmented, duplicated, poorly governed, or inadequately structured. The old rule of data processing …
As we have said many times here at The Next Platform, the only way to predict the actual future is to live it. Despite that, people have a need to forecast because our guesses, prognostications, and hunches are what we base our plans on, and those plans collectively matrix multiply …
Micron Technology has not just filled in a capacity shortfall for more high bandwidth stacked DRAM to feed GPU and XPU accelerators for AI and HPC. It has created DRAM that stacks higher and runs faster than the competition from SK Hynix and Samsung. And therefore Micron has also found …
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has kept a steady drumbeat for much of the year as it looks to position itself as the go-to IT hardware and software vendor for the rapidly expanding AI market, which has grown from chatbots to AI agents in under three years. To that end, HPE is …
Right or wrong, we still believe that we live in a world where traditional HPC simulation and modeling at high precision matters more than mashing up the sum total of human knowledge and mixing with the digital exhaust of our lives to create a globe-spanning automation that will leave us …
There is not one Ethernet business, but several, and now, with the evolution of Ethernet switches for back-end AI cluster networks, there is a new one that has the possibility to dominate revenues and profits. These Ethernet segments – campus, edge, datacenter front end, and datacenter back-end are the four …
Sitting in an office at QuEra Computing’s Boston headquarters, Yuval Boger was talking about the recent advancements made in quantum computing that are driving the chorus around an accelerated the timeframe the launch of a usable and reliable system. “Sometimes it’s hard to see all the amazing progress that’s been …
It has been two and a half months since new chief executive officer Lip-Bu Tan gave the keynote at Intel’s Vision 2025 event, and the company has been relatively quiet by its own standards over the past several decades as Tan gets the lay of the land and tries to …
Given two endpoints and a compound annual growth rate between those two points over a specific amount of time is not as useful as it seems. Not when you are trying to figure out what is happening at all of the points in between. And that is necessarily so because …
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