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Cisco Starts To See Signs Of Datacenter Spending Recovery
https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/16/cisco-starts-to-see-signs-of-datacenter-spending-recovery/
Published: May 16, 2024 15:05
If you look at the financial results for Cisco Systems over more than a decade, it is hard to tell one year from the other. …
Cisco Starts To See Signs Of Datacenter Spending Recovery was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Top500 Supers: Nvidia Utterly Dominates Those Shiny New Machines
https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/15/top500-supers-nvidia-utterly-dominates-those-shiny-new-machines/
Published: May 16, 2024 01:04
If you stare at something for a little bit of time and let your mind wander, you can think of a new way to analyze something that you have looked at a bunch of times. …
Top500 Supers: Nvidia Utterly Dominates Those Shiny New Machines was written by…
One Cerebras Wafer Beats An Exascale Super At Molecular Dynamics
https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/15/one-cerebras-wafer-beats-an-exascale-super-at-molecular-dynamics/
Published: May 15, 2024 14:51
We think that waferscale computing is an interesting and even an inevitable concept for certain kinds of compute and memory. …
One Cerebras Wafer Beats An Exascale Super At Molecular Dynamics was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
To Exascale And (Maybe) Beyond!
https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/14/to-exascale-and-maybe-beyond/
Published: May 14, 2024 17:25
The difference between “high performance computing” in the general way that many thousands of organizations run traditional simulation and modeling applications and the kind of exascale computing that is only now becoming a little more commonplace is like…
Japan Gets An LLM Compliments Of Fujitsu And RIKEN
https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/13/japan-gets-an-llm-compliments-of-fujitsu-and-riken/
Published: May 14, 2024 02:45
Very few organizations have enough iron to train a large language model in a reasonably short amount of time, and that is why most will be grabbing pre-trained models and then retraining the parameters in the models with much smaller datasets that are…
Top500 Supers: This Is Peak Nvidia For Accelerated Supercomputers
https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/13/top500-supers-this-is-peak-nvidia-for-accelerated-supercomputers/
Published: May 13, 2024 15:55
If high bandwidth memory was widely available and we had cheap and reliable fusion power, there never would have been a move to use GPU and other compute engines as vector and matrix math offload engines. …
Top500 Supers: This Is Peak Nvidia For…
Greasing The Skids To Move AI From InfiniBand To Ethernet
https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/09/greasing-the-skids-to-move-ai-from-infiniband-to-ethernet/
Published: May 9, 2024 20:44
Just about everybody, including Nvidia, thinks that in the long run, most people running most AI training and inference workloads at any appreciable scale – hundreds to millions of datacenter devices – will want a cheaper alternative for networking AI…
AI At The Edge Is Different From AI In The Datacenter
https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/09/ai-at-the-edge-is-different-from-ai-in-the-datacenter/
Published: May 9, 2024 12:58
Today’s pace of business requires companies to find faster ways to serve customers, gather actionable insights, increase operational efficiency, and reduce costs. …
AI At The Edge Is Different From AI In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett…
Red Hat Saddles Up For The Wide Open GenAI Horizons
https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/07/red-hat-saddles-up-for-the-wide-open-genai-horizons/
Published: May 7, 2024 14:01
A theme snaking its way through conversations these days about generative AI is the need for open source models, open platforms, and industry standards as ways to make the emerging technology more accessible and widely adopted by enterprises. …
Red Hat…
AI Accelerates Cloud Revenues As Well As Cloud Investments
https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/06/ai-accelerates-cloud-revenues-as-well-as-cloud-investments/
Published: May 6, 2024 17:16
Three years ago, thanks in part to competitive pressures as Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and others started giving Amazon Web Services a run for the cloud money, the growth rate in quarterly spending on cloud services was slowing. …
AI Accelerates Cloud…