Compute
Celestial AI Wants To Break The Memory Wall, Fuse HBM With DDR5
In 2024, there is no shortage of interconnects if you need to stitch tens, hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of accelerators together. …
Articles by Tobias Mann
AI
Lambda Snags $320 Million To Grow Its Rent-A-GPU Cloud
Riding high on the AI hype cycle, Lambda – formerly known as Lambda Labs and well known to readers of The Next Platform – has received a $320 million cash infusion to expand its GPU cloud to support training clusters spanning thousands of Nvidia’s top specced accelerators. …
AI
Cerebras To Ride The AI Wave To An IPO This Year?
Having commercialized its waferscale AI computing platform to a certain extent over the past several year, Cerebras Systems reportedly wants to get an initial public offering done before the AI hype peaks. …
Compute
Expect Datacenters To Get Denser, Hotter, And Smarter
The datacenter industry today looks very different than it did a decade ago. …
HPC
Combining AI With HPC To Find Better Battery Designs
The melding of low and high precision mathematics to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery has been a topic of discussion for some time now. …
AI
Sometimes The Best AI Accelerator Is The 37,888 GPUs You Already Have
For traditional HPC workloads, AMD’s MI250X is still a powerhouse when it comes to double precision floating point grunt. …
Connect
How Lightmatter Breaks Bandwidth Bottlenecks With Silicon Photonics
Without question, the biggest bottleneck in artificial intelligence and for a lot of HPC workloads today is bandwidth. …
HPC
University Of Stuttgart Spends €115 Million To Go Exascale
The University of Stuttgart’s High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) in Germany has tapped Hewlett Packard Enterprise to build a pair of its next-generation supercomputers. …
HPC
HPC Pioneers Pave The Way For A Flood Of Arm Supercomputers
Over the past few years, the Arm architecture has made steady gains, particularly among the hyperscalers and cloud builders. …
AI
Pushing The Limits Of HPC And AI Is Becoming A Sustainability Headache
As Moore’s law continues to slow, delivering more powerful HPC and AI clusters means building larger, more power hungry facilities. …