CPU Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/cpu/ 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 CPU Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/cpu/ 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 AMD Breaks $1 Billion In Datacenter GPU Sales In Q2 https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/31/amd-breaks-1-billion-in-datacenter-gpu-sales-in-q2/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/31/amd-breaks-1-billion-in-datacenter-gpu-sales-in-q2/#comments Wed, 31 Jul 2024 04:09:06 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144478 As expected, AMD has once again raised its forecast for sales of its Instinct MI300 series GPUs, and as it has broken through $1 billion in revenues for its “Antares” line of compute engines in the second quarter, it is now expecting to surpass $4.5 billion in sales of these devices for all of 2024. …

AMD Breaks $1 Billion In Datacenter GPU Sales In Q2 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/31/amd-breaks-1-billion-in-datacenter-gpu-sales-in-q2/feed/ 1 144478 AMD’s Long And Winding Road To The Hybrid CPU-GPU Instinct MI300A https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/17/amds-long-and-winding-road-to-the-hybrid-cpu-gpu-instinct-mi300a/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/17/amds-long-and-winding-road-to-the-hybrid-cpu-gpu-instinct-mi300a/#comments Wed, 17 Jul 2024 19:17:11 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144421 Back in 2012, when AMD was in the process of backing out of the datacenter CPU business and did not really have its datacenter GPU act together at all, the US Department of Energy exhibited the enlightened self-interest that is a strong foundation of both economics and politics and took a chance and invested in AMD to do research in memory technologies and hybrid CPU-GPU computing at exascale. …

AMD’s Long And Winding Road To The Hybrid CPU-GPU Instinct MI300A was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/17/amds-long-and-winding-road-to-the-hybrid-cpu-gpu-instinct-mi300a/feed/ 12 144421 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 The Appetite For Datacenter Compute Is Ravenous https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/24/the-appetite-for-datacenter-compute-capacity-is-ravenous/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/24/the-appetite-for-datacenter-compute-capacity-is-ravenous/#comments Mon, 24 Jun 2024 18:55:01 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144339 It has been an invaluable asset for AMD as it re-engaged in the datacenter in the past decade to have Forrest Norrod as the general manager of its datacenter business. …

The Appetite For Datacenter Compute Is Ravenous was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/24/the-appetite-for-datacenter-compute-capacity-is-ravenous/feed/ 15 144339 AMD Previews “Turin” Epyc CPUs, Expands Instinct GPU Roadmap https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/03/amd-previews-turin-epyc-cpus-expands-instinct-gpu-roadmap/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/03/amd-previews-turin-epyc-cpus-expands-instinct-gpu-roadmap/#comments Mon, 03 Jun 2024 06:21:56 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144235 Computex, the annual conference in Taiwan to showcase the island nation’s vast technology business, has been transformed into what amounts to a half-time show for the datacenter IT year. …

AMD Previews “Turin” Epyc CPUs, Expands Instinct GPU Roadmap was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/03/amd-previews-turin-epyc-cpus-expands-instinct-gpu-roadmap/feed/ 3 144235 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 AMD Firing On All Compute Engine Cylinders https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/01/amd-firing-on-all-compute-engine-cylinders/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/01/amd-firing-on-all-compute-engine-cylinders/#comments Wed, 01 May 2024 14:23:43 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144083 A few years ago, it was hard to imagine how AMD would have survived without re-entering the datacenter with its CPU and GPU compute engines. …

AMD Firing On All Compute Engine Cylinders was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/01/amd-firing-on-all-compute-engine-cylinders/feed/ 8 144083 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.

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