Amazon Web Services may not be the first of the hyperscalers and cloud builders to create its own custom compute engines, but it has been hot on the heels of Google, which started using its homegrown TPU accelerators for AI workloads in 2015. …
For more than a year, we have been expecting for Amazon Web Services to launch its Graviton4 processor for its homegrown servers at this year’s re:Invent, and lo and behold, chief executive officer Adam Selipsky rolled out the fourth generation in the Graviton CPU lineup – and the fifth iteration including last year’s overclocked Graviton3E processor aimed at HPC workloads – during his thrombosis-inducing keynote at the conference. …
Because they are in the front of the line for acquiring Nvidia datacenter GPUs, the hyperscalers and cloud builders are going to be the ones who benefit mightily from shortages of matrix math engines that can train AI models and run inference against them. …
It takes big money as well as big ideas to compete in the generative AI space. …
For the last two quarters at least, the generic infrastructure server market – the one running databases, application servers, various web layers, and print and file serving workloads the world over – has been in a recession. …
UPDATED: It is funny what courses were the most fun and most useful when we look back at college. …
The hype around generative AI is making every industry vibrate at an increasingly high pitch in a way that we have not seen since the days of the Dot Com boom and sock puppets. …
When it comes to deploying Arm in the cloud, a lot of the talk of late has centered on things like efficiency, core density, or predictability of performance. …
The expanded lineup of AMD’s 4th generation “Genoa” Epyc server chips – built atop “Zen 4” core and some with the chip maker’s L3-boosting 3D V-Cache – unveiled at a high-profile event in San Francisco this week is quickly making its way into the cloud. …
Here is a question for you. Which is more proprietary? The Nutanix hyperconverged compute, storage, and networking platform or a cloud like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure? …
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