AI
In GPU We Antitrust
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?” …
China
HPC
HPC Market Bigger Than Expected, And Growing Faster
As far as we have been concerned since founding The Next Platform literally a decade ago this week, AI training and inference in the datacenter are a kind of HPC. …
Compute
Intel: I Was Lostry, But Now I Am Foundry
Pat Gelsinger, current chief executive officer at Intel and formerly the head of its Data Center Group as well as its chief technology officer, famously invented the tick-tock method of chip launches to bring some order and reason to the way the world’s largest chip maker – as it was in the mid-2000s – mitigated risk and spurred innovation in its products. …
HPC
The Mystery Of Tianhe-3, The World’s Fastest Supercomputer, Solved?
We don’t like a mystery and we particularly don’t like it when what is very likely the most powerful supercomputer in the world – at this time anyway – is veiled in secrecy. …
Compute
China’s 1.5 Exaflops Supercomputer Chases Gordon Bell Prize – Again
The Association for Computing Machinery has just put out the finalists for the Gordon Bell Prize award that will be given out at the SC23 supercomputing conference in Denver, and as you might expect, some of the biggest iron assembled in the world are driving the advanced applications that have their eyes on the prize. …
Compute
RISC-V In The Datacenter Is No Risky Proposition
It was only a matter of time, perhaps, but the skyrocketing costs of designing chips is colliding with the ever-increasing need for performance, price/performance, and performance per watt. …
Compute
Datacenter Can Carry Nvidia Through The Rough Spots
After a decade and a half of ceaseless and focused work, Nvidia has created a modern compute platform, and a unique one at that. …
Compute
GPU Engines Are So Strategic China Will Have To Use Its Own
China is the world’s second largest economy, it has the world’s largest population, and it is only a matter of time before has a world-class technology ecosystem spanning the smallest transistors to the largest hyperscale and HPC systems. …
Compute
China Launches The Inevitable Indigenous GPU
It was absolutely inevitable that China would try to create its own GPU compute engines. …
HPC
China’s Exascale Quantum Simulation Not All It Appears
And actually, one could say it is also far more than it appears. …