The Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Austin is the flagship datacenter for supercomputing for the US National Science Foundation, and so what TACC does – and doesn’t do – is a kind of bellwether for academic supercomputing. So it is noteworthy that TACC is installing its first …
Rated horsepower for a compute engine is an interesting intellectual exercise, but it is where the rubber hits the road that really matters. We finally have the first benchmarks from MLCommons, the vendor-led testing organization that has put together the suite of MLPerf AI training and inference benchmarks, that pit …
We have been watching the big original equipment manufactures like a hawk to see how they are generating revenues and income from GPU-accelerated system sales. These OEMs provide the best indicator of the health of the GenAI revolution and the efforts to democratize the massively parallel – and massively expensive …
PARTNER CONTENT Given the size and complexity of modern semiconductor designs, functional verification has become a dominant phase in the development cycle. Coverage lies at the very heart of this process, providing the best way to assess verification progress and determine where to focus further effort. Code coverage of the …
Welcome to the most important earnings call in history, with the weight of the aggregate stock markets of the entire world hanging on what Nvidia says and doesn’t say. Well, the most important one until thirteen weeks from now. And get used to that cadence until this GenAI boom either …
After Wall Street closed the markets for the day and Nvidia reported its financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2025, we had the opportunity to chat with Colette Kress, chief financial officer of the accelerated computing giant. We wanted to get a better handle on how the delays …
We all had been wondering what VMware would look like when it became part of Broadcom’s massive universe following the semiconductor giant’s $69 billion acquisition of the virtualization juggernaut. Now, we are finding out. The industry got a glimpse in June, when Prashanth Shenoy, vice president of product marketing for …
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Big Blue might be a little late to the AI acceleration game, but it has a captive audience in its System z mainframe and Power Systems servers. Many of these customers, who spend millions of dollars for their application and database servers, will want a more native approach to AI …
Hardware is always the star of Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference, and this year we got previews of “Blackwell” datacenter GPUs, the cornerstone of a 2025 platform that includes “Grace” CPUs, the NVLink Switch 5 chip, the Bluefield-3 DPU, and other components, all of which Nvidia is talking about again this …
COMMISSIONED Organizations must consider many things before deploying generative AI services, from choosing models and tech stacks to selecting relevant use cases. Yet before most organizations begin to tackle these tasks, they must solve perhaps their biggest challenge of all: their data management problem. After all, managing data remains one …
Effects are multiplicative, not additive, when it comes to increasing compute engine performance. And if there is one person who is not worried about how we are going to increase the oomph of those engines by two orders of magnitude in the next six years, it is Andy Bechtolsheim. Well, …
When you are designing applications that run across the scale of an entire datacenter and that are comprised of hundreds to thousands of microservices running on countless individual servers and that have to be called within a matter of microseconds to give the illusion of a monolithic application, building fully …
Nvidia hit a rare patch of bad news earlier this month when reports started circulating claiming that the company’s much-anticipated “Blackwell” GPU accelerators could be delayed by as much as three months due to design flaws. However, Nvidia spokespeople have said things are on schedule and some suppliers say that …
Rackspace Technology has admittedly been relatively quiet in recent years when it’s come to OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure platform that was born in 2010 out of the collaboration between the cloud computing company and NASA. It’s not that Rackspace turned its back on OpenStack. It’s contributed more than …
A complex world demands complex systems. Designing and improving new industrial systems, semiconductors, or vehicles, whether earth or space bound, presents massive engineering and manufacturing challenges. As does building digital twins which can help designers to understand how large or microscopic scale structures will work in practice. An additional challenge …
Current AI training and some AI inference clusters have two networks. The back-end network links banks of compute engines, usually GPU accelerators and usually those from Nvidia – to each other so they can share work and data. The front end network links the compute engine’s CPU hosts to each …
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