Here is what memory bandwidth and a certain amount of capacity is worth in the GenAI revolution. Imagine that you have a bunch of DDR5 memory chips that cost $70 a gigabyte to create a 256 GB memory stick that lays them out horizontally on a DIMM memory stick. Crank …
The market for cloud infrastructure is now so large that it is very difficult for it to change drastically. But given the fact that people can turn off server, storage, and networking capacity as easily as they can turn it on, predicting how much money the world will spend on …
For years, scientists in the field of molecular dynamics have been squeezed in their research. Traditional simulations that they have been using to track how atoms and molecules move through a system are limited in their accuracy. And recent efforts using machine learning have been tripped up by a lack …
COMMISSIONED AI and advanced storage systems ensure a smooth and profitable winter shopping season, so retailers don’t miss a beat during the holiday rush. As the clock strikes 12:01 a.m. on Black Friday, retailers everywhere unleash a frenzy of highly anticipated doorbuster deals. You jump online to snag the must-have …
The hyperscalers, cloud builders, HPC centers control the design and manufacturing of own AI infrastructure. They have big bucks, and they can afford to get exactly what they want. For the rest of the world, and particularly large enterprises who cannot afford to start from scratch and who want to …
The expansion of the computing capacity in Europe for both traditional HPC simulation as well as AI training and modeling continues apace, with the Leibniz-Rechenzentrum lab in Germany announcing late last week (when we took a day of holiday) that it would be shelling out €250 million – about $262.7 …
Chip maker and enterprise software player Broadcom announced its financial results for the final quarter of its fiscal 2024 today, which ended on November third, and all we kept thinking about as chief executive officer Hock Tan went over the numbers was the question in the title above. We have …
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The AI era has a much different vibe than prior eras in the IT industry. The pace of innovation and the amount of investment are both breathtaking. In the two short years since OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT, there has been a sprint from prompt-and-respond with pre-trained large language models to …
COMMISSIONED Imagine this: a patient is rushed into the emergency room, disoriented, unable to speak – signs point to a stroke. Every second counts, and the faster doctors can make an accurate diagnosis, the sooner treatment can begin. Instead of relying solely on present symptoms or piecing together an incomplete …
Everybody wants to get rich in AI these days, and if you can’t do it by investing in the compute engine makers or the hyperscalers and cloud builders, then the next best thing to put your money into is probably some form of optical I/O. It is no secret that …
Supercomputer interconnects have not been this exciting in a long time, but the confluence of forces have come together to put high speed, low latency networks at the forefront of systems architecture. And thanks to the flood of money being spent on AI training and inference systems, which is an …
With all of this chatter about China looking into possible violations of antitrust law by Nvidia, and regulators in both the United States and the European Union also having done the same, let’s play the “What if?” game for a just a moment. These “What ifs” are based on the …
There is no shortage of top-name – and even lesser known – companies pursuing the white whale of developing a quantum computer that can run workloads and solve problems that today’s most powerful classical computers simply can’t. A global market is growing around quantum computing, with billions of dollars being …
This probably happens more than we know, but sometimes OEMs and ODMs walk away from big deals because something is fishy. And that happened to Hewlett Packard Enterprise in its fourth quarter of fiscal 2024, a period that ended on October 31, as it “de-booked a large order” for $700 …
There is a fractal nature in modern computing that is only becoming more and more apparent as workloads have long since outstripped the capacity of a single server. Just looking at the renderings of the massive datacenter that social networker Meta Platforms is building in Louisiana only makes this more …
COMMISSIONED: As an IT leader, you know that data management is one of the critical ingredients for cultivating successful AI initiatives. One does not simply walk into an AI implementation without properly curating and cleaning data and making it available to employees who need it. High quality data, of course, …
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