ARM Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/arm/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Wed, 04 Sep 2024 19:14:06 +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 ARM Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/arm/ 32 32 86113652 TACC Fires Up “Vista” Bridge To Future “Horizon” Supercomputer https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/09/04/tacc-fires-up-vista-bridge-to-future-horizon-supercomputer/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/09/04/tacc-fires-up-vista-bridge-to-future-horizon-supercomputer/#comments Wed, 04 Sep 2024 18:38:12 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144647 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. …

TACC Fires Up “Vista” Bridge To Future “Horizon” Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/09/04/tacc-fires-up-vista-bridge-to-future-horizon-supercomputer/feed/ 1 144647 Ampere Arm Server CPUs To Get 512 Cores, AI Accelerator https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/31/ampere-arm-server-cpus-to-get-512-cores-ai-accelerator/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/31/ampere-arm-server-cpus-to-get-512-cores-ai-accelerator/#comments Wed, 31 Jul 2024 18:51:10 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144484 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. …

Ampere Arm Server CPUs To Get 512 Cores, AI Accelerator was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/31/ampere-arm-server-cpus-to-get-512-cores-ai-accelerator/feed/ 1 144484 Can SoftBank Be An AI Supercomputer Player? Will Arm Lend A Hand? https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/12/can-softbank-be-an-ai-supercomputer-player-will-arm-lend-a-hand/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/12/can-softbank-be-an-ai-supercomputer-player-will-arm-lend-a-hand/#comments Fri, 12 Jul 2024 16:03:55 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144395 There have been rumors that either Arm Ltd or parent company and Japanese conglomerate SoftBank would buy British AI chip and system upstart – it is no longer a startup if it is eight years old – Graphcore for quite some time. …

Can SoftBank Be An AI Supercomputer Player? Will Arm Lend A Hand? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/12/can-softbank-be-an-ai-supercomputer-player-will-arm-lend-a-hand/feed/ 2 144395 AWS Pushes Bang For The Buck With Graviton 4 Instances https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/09/aws-charges-a-hefty-premium-for-graviton-4-instances/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/09/aws-charges-a-hefty-premium-for-graviton-4-instances/#comments Tue, 09 Jul 2024 20:08:43 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144382 UPDATED: Mea culpa. Due to an error in calculating the performance of the Graviton 4, we wrongly asserted that the price/performance of these chips was worse than, not better than, that of the Graviton 3. …

AWS Pushes Bang For The Buck With Graviton 4 Instances was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/09/aws-charges-a-hefty-premium-for-graviton-4-instances/feed/ 7 144382 Ruminations About Europe’s “Alice Recoque” Exascale Supercomputer https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/25/ruminations-about-europes-alice-recoque-exascale-supercomputer/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/25/ruminations-about-europes-alice-recoque-exascale-supercomputer/#comments Tue, 25 Jun 2024 18:15:37 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144347 Designing chips and shepherding them through the foundry and package and assembly is a complex and difficult process, and not having these skills at a national level has profound implications for the competitiveness of those nations. …

Ruminations About Europe’s “Alice Recoque” Exascale Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/25/ruminations-about-europes-alice-recoque-exascale-supercomputer/feed/ 2 144347 Nvidia Unfolds GPU, Interconnect Roadmaps Out To 2027 https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/02/nvidia-unfolds-gpu-interconnect-roadmaps-out-to-2027/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/02/nvidia-unfolds-gpu-interconnect-roadmaps-out-to-2027/#comments Sun, 02 Jun 2024 20:37:32 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144228 There are many things that are unique about Nvidia at this point in the history of computing, networking, and graphics. …

Nvidia Unfolds GPU, Interconnect Roadmaps Out To 2027 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/02/nvidia-unfolds-gpu-interconnect-roadmaps-out-to-2027/feed/ 11 144228 Power Efficiency, Customization Will Drive Arm’s Role In AI https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/17/power-efficiency-customization-will-drive-arms-role-in-ai/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/17/power-efficiency-customization-will-drive-arms-role-in-ai/#comments Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:00:22 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143999 More than a decade ago, executives at Arm Ltd saw the energy costs in datacenters soaring and sensed an opportunity to extend the low-power architecture of its eponymous systems-on-a-chip that has dominated the mobile phone markets from the get-go and took over the embedded device market from PowerPC into enterprise servers. …

Power Efficiency, Customization Will Drive Arm’s Role In AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/17/power-efficiency-customization-will-drive-arms-role-in-ai/feed/ 6 143999 Google Joins The Homegrown Arm Server CPU Club https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/09/google-joins-the-homegrown-arm-server-cpu-club/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/09/google-joins-the-homegrown-arm-server-cpu-club/#comments Tue, 09 Apr 2024 20:01:20 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143961 If you are wondering why Intel chief executive officer Pat Gelsinger has been working so hard to get the company’s foundry business not only back on track but utterly transformed into a merchant foundry that, by 2030 or so can take away some business from archrival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the reason is simple. …

Google Joins The Homegrown Arm Server CPU Club was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/09/google-joins-the-homegrown-arm-server-cpu-club/feed/ 8 143961 Arm Neoverse Roadmap Brings CPU Designs, But No Big Fat GPU https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/02/21/arm-neoverse-roadmap-brings-cpu-designs-but-no-big-fat-gpu/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/02/21/arm-neoverse-roadmap-brings-cpu-designs-but-no-big-fat-gpu/#comments Wed, 21 Feb 2024 16:03:00 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143682 Spoiler alert!

A lot of neat things have just been added to the Arm Neoverse datacenter compute roadmap, but one of them is not a datacenter-class, discrete GPU accelerator. …

Arm Neoverse Roadmap Brings CPU Designs, But No Big Fat GPU was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/02/21/arm-neoverse-roadmap-brings-cpu-designs-but-no-big-fat-gpu/feed/ 5 143682 The Mystery Of Tianhe-3, The World’s Fastest Supercomputer, Solved? https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/02/09/the-mystery-of-tianhe-3-the-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-solved/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/02/09/the-mystery-of-tianhe-3-the-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-solved/#comments Fri, 09 Feb 2024 20:35:14 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143633 We don’t like a mystery and we particularly don’t like it when what is very likely the most powerful supercomputer in the world – at this time anyway – is veiled in secrecy. …

The Mystery Of Tianhe-3, The World’s Fastest Supercomputer, Solved? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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