Compute
The First AI Benchmarks Pitting AMD Against Nvidia
Rated horsepower for a compute engine is an interesting intellectual exercise, but it is where the rubber hits the road that really matters. …
AI
Control
Nvidia Rolls Out Blueprints For The Next Wave Of Generative 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 week at the Hot Chips 2024 conference. …
Compute
AI Pervades The Cisco Stack, But Is Only Starting To Drive Sales
Like many other suppliers of hardware and systems software, Cisco Systems is trying to figure out how to make money on the AI revolution. …
Compute
The Resurrection Of Intel Will Take More Than Three Days
Intel’s second quarter is pretty much a carbon copy of the first three months of 2024 when it comes to revenues across its newly constituted groups, and with an operating loss that is twice as big. …
Compute
Ampere Arm Server CPUs To Get 512 Cores, AI Accelerator
With all of the hyperscalers and major cloud builders designing their own CPUs and AI accelerators, the heat is on those who sell compute engines to these companies. …
AI
For Meta Platforms, An Open AI Policy Is The Best Policy
For Mark Zuckerberg, the decision by Meta Platforms – and way back when it was still known as Facebook – to open much of its technology – including server and storage designs, datacenter designs, and most recently its Llama AI large language models – came about because the company often found itself trailing competitors when it came to deploying advanced technologies. …
AI
Meta Lets Its Largest Llama AI Model Loose Into The Open Field
A scant three months ago, when Meta Platforms released the Llama 3 AI model in 8B and 70B versions, which correspond to the billions of parameters they can span, we asked the question we ask of every open source tool or platform since the dawn of Linux: Who’s going to profit from it and how are they going to do it? …
AI
Ongoing Saga: How Much Money Will Be Spent On AI Chips?
Everybody knows that companies, particularly hyperscalers and cloud builders but now increasingly enterprises hoping to leverage generative AI, are spending giant round bales of money on AI accelerators and related chips to create AI training and inference clusters. …
Compute
IDC Boosts Datacenter Compute And Storage Spending Forecast
When you have to compile the revenue streams of thousands of major IT hardware, software, and services suppliers into the datacenter, it takes a bit of time to get that data, get it right, and then aggregate it for a datacenter market analysis. …
Connect
What If Omni-Path Morphs Into The Best Ultra Ethernet?
UPDATED: Nvidia is a member of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium.
The jury is still out on a lot of things about this exploding AI market and the re-convergence that it will have with traditional HPC systems for running simulations and models. …