GPU Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/gpu/ 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 GPU Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/gpu/ 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 Dell’s AI Server Business Now Bigger Than VMware Used To Be https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/30/dells-ai-server-business-now-bigger-than-vmware-used-to-be/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/30/dells-ai-server-business-now-bigger-than-vmware-used-to-be/#respond Fri, 30 Aug 2024 23:08:36 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144622 We have been watching the big original equipment manufactures like a hawk to see how they are generating revenues and income from GPU-accelerated system sales. …

Dell’s AI Server Business Now Bigger Than VMware Used To Be was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/30/dells-ai-server-business-now-bigger-than-vmware-used-to-be/feed/ 0 144622 Nvidia Says “Blackwell” GPU Issues Are Fixed, Ramp Starts In Fiscal Q4 https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/28/nvidia-says-blackwell-gpu-issues-are-fixed-ramp-starts-in-fiscal-q4/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/28/nvidia-says-blackwell-gpu-issues-are-fixed-ramp-starts-in-fiscal-q4/#comments Thu, 29 Aug 2024 03:21:44 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144614 Welcome to the most important earnings call in history, with the weight of the aggregate stock markets of the entire world hanging on what Nvidia says and doesn’t say. …

Nvidia Says “Blackwell” GPU Issues Are Fixed, Ramp Starts In Fiscal Q4 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/28/nvidia-says-blackwell-gpu-issues-are-fixed-ramp-starts-in-fiscal-q4/feed/ 3 144614 Interview: Post-Earnings Insight With Nvidia CFO Colette Kress https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/28/in-depth-post-earnings-review-with-nvidia-cfo-colette-kress/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/28/in-depth-post-earnings-review-with-nvidia-cfo-colette-kress/#comments Wed, 28 Aug 2024 23:53:08 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144612 After Wall Street closed the markets for the day and Nvidia reported its financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2025, we had the opportunity to chat with Colette Kress, chief financial officer of the accelerated computing giant. …

Interview: Post-Earnings Insight With Nvidia CFO Colette Kress was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/28/in-depth-post-earnings-review-with-nvidia-cfo-colette-kress/feed/ 2 144612 Nvidia Rolls Out Blueprints For The Next Wave Of Generative AI https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/27/nvidia-rolls-out-blueprints-for-the-next-wave-of-generative-ai/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/27/nvidia-rolls-out-blueprints-for-the-next-wave-of-generative-ai/#comments Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:00:08 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144595 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. …

Nvidia Rolls Out Blueprints For The Next Wave Of Generative AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/27/nvidia-rolls-out-blueprints-for-the-next-wave-of-generative-ai/feed/ 2 144595 When Nvidia Says Hot Chips, It Means Hot Platforms https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/23/when-nvidia-says-hot-chips-it-means-hot-platforms/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/23/when-nvidia-says-hot-chips-it-means-hot-platforms/#comments Fri, 23 Aug 2024 18:32:25 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144563 Nvidia hit a rare patch of bad news earlier this month when reports started circulating claiming that the company’s much-anticipated “Blackwell” GPU accelerators could be delayed by as much as three months due to design flaws. …

When Nvidia Says Hot Chips, It Means Hot Platforms was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/23/when-nvidia-says-hot-chips-it-means-hot-platforms/feed/ 1 144563 Supermicro Financials Get Better As The Company Gets Bigger https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/20/supermicro-financials-get-better-as-the-company-gets-bigger/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/20/supermicro-financials-get-better-as-the-company-gets-bigger/#comments Tue, 20 Aug 2024 20:32:19 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144541 It’s still Ketchup Week here at The Next Platform, and we are going to be circling back to look at the financials of a number of bellwether datacenter companies that we could not get to during a number of medical crisis – including but not limited to our family catching COVID when we took a week of vacation at a lake in Michigan. …

Supermicro Financials Get Better As The Company Gets Bigger was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/20/supermicro-financials-get-better-as-the-company-gets-bigger/feed/ 2 144541 Why AMD Spent $4.9 Billion To Buy ZT Systems https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/19/why-amd-spent-4-9-billion-to-buy-zt-systems/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/19/why-amd-spent-4-9-billion-to-buy-zt-systems/#comments Mon, 19 Aug 2024 14:40:58 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144535 If AMD is willing and eager to spend $4.9 billion to buy a systems company – that is more than its entire expected haul for sales of datacenter GPUs for 2024 – then you have to figure that acquisition is pretty important. …

Why AMD Spent $4.9 Billion To Buy ZT Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/19/why-amd-spent-4-9-billion-to-buy-zt-systems/feed/ 10 144535 Huawei’s HiSilicon Can Compete With Nvidia GPUs In China https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/13/huaweis-hisilicon-can-compete-with-nvidia-gpus-in-china/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/13/huaweis-hisilicon-can-compete-with-nvidia-gpus-in-china/#comments Tue, 13 Aug 2024 20:27:44 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144520 Each time that the United States has figured out that it needed to do export controls on massively parallel compute engines to try to discourage China from buying such gear and building supercomputers with them, it has already been too late to have much of a long term effect on China’s ability to run the advanced HPC simulations and AI training workloads that we were worried would be enabled by such computing oomph. …

Huawei’s HiSilicon Can Compete With Nvidia GPUs In China was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/13/huaweis-hisilicon-can-compete-with-nvidia-gpus-in-china/feed/ 6 144520 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.

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