Mark Funk, Author at The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/author/mrfunk/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Thu, 09 Sep 2021 19:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://www.nextplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-PlatformStack-150x150.jpg Mark Funk, Author at The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/author/mrfunk/ 32 32 86113652 Doing The Math On CPU-Native AI Inference https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/09/01/doing-the-math-on-cpu-native-ai-inference/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/09/01/doing-the-math-on-cpu-native-ai-inference/#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2021 15:44:35 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=139135 A number of chip companies — importantly Intel and IBM, but also the Arm collective and AMD — have come out recently with new CPU designs that feature native Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its related machine learning (ML). …

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]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/09/01/doing-the-math-on-cpu-native-ai-inference/feed/ 4 139135 The Power Of Power10’s Memory Inception Clustering https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/08/13/the-power-of-power10s-memory-inception-clustering/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/08/13/the-power-of-power10s-memory-inception-clustering/#comments Fri, 13 Aug 2021 19:45:19 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=138963 Scanning through Power10’s detailed announcement material, I’ve seen a lot architecturally that intrigues an avid reader of The Next Platform like myself, but one item – one that IBM calls “Memory Inception” and IBM-based techie material calls enablement for a “memory cluster” – really caught my eye. …

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]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/08/13/the-power-of-power10s-memory-inception-clustering/feed/ 9 138963 Thought Experiment: How Did Zoom’s Infrastructure Keep Us Connected? https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/08/02/thought-experiment-how-did-zooms-infrastructure-keep-us-connected/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/08/02/thought-experiment-how-did-zooms-infrastructure-keep-us-connected/#comments Mon, 02 Aug 2021 15:03:48 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=138901 What bit of technology got us through the pandemic, was available for scaling up at just the right time to keep a pretty sizeable chunk of our economy working, redefined education on a moment’s notice, and now is redefining for the world the entire notion of work?  …

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