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The minute that search engine giant Google wanted to be a cloud, and the several years later that Google realized that companies were not ready to buy full-on platform services that masked the underlying hardware but wanted lower level infrastructure services that gave them more optionality as well as more …
The Once And Future FPGA Maker Altera - The Next Platform
Feb 29, 2024 · Back in 2015, when we were launching The Next Platform, a lot of stuff was going on all at the same time, which is part of the zeitgeist that we were tapping into and that we wanted to chronical upon and participate within.And Intel was front and center of it all. Intel had made a whole bunch of interconnect and switching acquisitions a few years earlier – the Ethernet switch ASIC business ...
Lambda Snags $320 Million To Grow Its Rent-A-GPU Cloud - The …
Feb 16, 2024 · A few months back we took a look at CoreWeave, which is deploying 22,000 H100 GPU accelerators to train the Inflection-2 LLM. We’ve seen other outfits pop up in recent months, like Voltage Park, which claims it has obtained 24,000 H100s it now plans to lease out at cut-rate prices. Even Cerebras Systems is building an AI compute cloud around its waferscale accelerators with the help of the ...
Key Hyperscalers And Chip Makers Gang Up On Nvidia’s NVSwitch …
May 30, 2024 · The generative AI revolution is making strange bedfellows, as revolutions and emerging monopolies that capitalize on them, often do. The Ultra Ethernet Consortium was formed in July 2023 to take on Nvidia’s InfiniBand high performance interconnect, which has quickly and quite profitably become the de facto standard …
Accenture Melds Smarts And Wares With Nvidia For Agentic AI Push
Oct 3, 2024 · “The opportunity for agents is gigantic,” Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang said during a conversation with Salesforce chief executive offer Marc Benioff at Salesforce’s Dreamforce show last month. “It sounds insane, but here’s the amazing thing: We’re going to have agents that obviously understand the subtleties of …
How MCR Memory Can More Than Double HPC And AI Performance
Oct 4, 2024 · Intel recently demonstrated a new type of DIMM memory technology called Multiplexer Combined Rank (MCR), also referred to as MRDIMMs, that provides up to 2.3X better performance for HPC workloads and up to a 2X better on AI inference workloads in comparison to 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors, based on internal Intel analysis.
Nvidia Unfolds GPU, Interconnect Roadmaps Out To 2027
Jun 2, 2024 · Nvidia will also kick out a higher radix Spectrum-X800 Ethernet switch in 2025, perhaps with six ASICs in the box to create a non-blocking architecture as has been commonly done with other switches to double up the aggregate bandwidth and therefore doubling up either the bandwidth per port or the number of ports in a switch.. In 2026, we see the “Rubin” R100 GPU, which was formerly called ...
AMD Turns The Screws With “Turin” Server CPUs
Oct 10, 2024 · As the Epyc chiplet designs improved, adoption followed, and at this point in the Epyc line no one even questions for a second that AMD is in the server CPU game for the longest of hauls or that it cannot create a processor aimed at one-socket and two-socket servers that can stand toe to toe with anything anyone can put together, bar none.
First In-Depth Look at Google’s TPU Architecture - The Next Platform
Apr 5, 2017 · Four years ago, Google started to see the real potential for deploying neural networks to support a large number of new services. During that time it was also clear that, given the existing hardware, if people did voice searches for three minutes per day or dictated to their phone for short periods, Google would have to double the number of datacenters just to run machine learning models.
Nvidia Shows What Optically Linked GPU Systems Might Look Like
Aug 17, 2022 · There is no arguing with those curves, although you can bend them a bit with materials science wizardry. Nvidia signed a research and development partnership with Ayar Labs several weeks ago, and we sat down and had a chat with Charlie Wuischpard, chief executive officer at the silicon photonics startup, to talk about what the two would be working on.