Hopper Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/hopper/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Thu, 05 Sep 2024 01:18:49 +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 Hopper Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/hopper/ 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 The First AI Benchmarks Pitting AMD Against Nvidia https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/09/03/the-first-ai-benchmarks-pitting-amd-against-nvidia/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/09/03/the-first-ai-benchmarks-pitting-amd-against-nvidia/#comments Tue, 03 Sep 2024 18:21:49 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144643 Rated horsepower for a compute engine is an interesting intellectual exercise, but it is where the rubber hits the road that really matters. …

The First AI Benchmarks Pitting AMD Against Nvidia was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/09/03/the-first-ai-benchmarks-pitting-amd-against-nvidia/feed/ 3 144643 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 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 Nvidia’s Enormous Financial Success Becomes . . . Normal https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/23/nvidias-enormous-financial-success-becomes-normal/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/23/nvidias-enormous-financial-success-becomes-normal/#comments Thu, 23 May 2024 11:29:57 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144187 For the past five years, since Nvidia acquired InfiniBand and Ethernet switch and network interface card supplier Mellanox, people have been wondering what the split is between compute and networking in the Nvidia datacenter business that has exploded in growth and now represents most of revenue for each quarter. …

Nvidia’s Enormous Financial Success Becomes . . . Normal was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/23/nvidias-enormous-financial-success-becomes-normal/feed/ 17 144187 Los Alamos Pushes The Memory Wall With “Venado” Supercomputer https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/15/los-alamos-pushes-the-memory-wall-with-venado-supercomputer/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/15/los-alamos-pushes-the-memory-wall-with-venado-supercomputer/#comments Mon, 15 Apr 2024 18:55:31 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143988 Today is the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the “Venado” supercomputer, which was hinted at back in April 2021 when Nvidia announced its plans for its first datacenter-class Arm server CPU and which was talked about in some detail – but not really enough to suit our taste for speeds and feeds – back in May 2022 by the folks at Los Alamos National Laboratory where Venado is situated. …

Los Alamos Pushes The Memory Wall With “Venado” Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/15/los-alamos-pushes-the-memory-wall-with-venado-supercomputer/feed/ 9 143988 With Gaudi 3, Intel Can Sell AI Accelerators To The PyTorch Masses https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/09/with-gaudi-3-intel-can-sell-ai-accelerators-to-the-pytorch-masses/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/09/with-gaudi-3-intel-can-sell-ai-accelerators-to-the-pytorch-masses/#comments Tue, 09 Apr 2024 15:43:29 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143942 We have said it before, and we will say it again right here: If you can make a matrix math engine that runs the PyTorch framework and the Llama large language model, both of which are open source and both of which come out of Meta Platforms and both of which will be widely adopted by enterprises, then you can sell that matrix math engine. …

With Gaudi 3, Intel Can Sell AI Accelerators To The PyTorch Masses was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/09/with-gaudi-3-intel-can-sell-ai-accelerators-to-the-pytorch-masses/feed/ 3 143942 Nvidia Will Be The Next IT Giant To Break $100 Billion In Sales https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/02/22/nvidia-will-be-the-next-it-giant-to-break-100-billion-in-sales/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/02/22/nvidia-will-be-the-next-it-giant-to-break-100-billion-in-sales/#comments Thu, 22 Feb 2024 05:43:29 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143695 Here is a history question for you: How many IT suppliers who do a reasonable portion of their business in the commercial IT sector – and a lot of that in the datacenter – have ever broken through the $100 billion barrier? …

Nvidia Will Be The Next IT Giant To Break $100 Billion In Sales was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/02/22/nvidia-will-be-the-next-it-giant-to-break-100-billion-in-sales/feed/ 8 143695 OSC Blends Intel HBM CPUs And Nvidia HBM GPUs For “Cardinal” Supercomputer https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/02/20/osc-blends-intel-hbm-cpus-and-nvidia-hbm-gpus-for-cardinal-supercomputer/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/02/20/osc-blends-intel-hbm-cpus-and-nvidia-hbm-gpus-for-cardinal-supercomputer/#comments Tue, 20 Feb 2024 21:17:05 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143676 For a lot of state universities in the United States, and their equivalent political organizations of regions or provinces in other nations across the globe, it is a lot easier to find extremely interested undergraduate and graduate students who want to contribute to the font of knowledge in high performance computing than it is to find the budget to build a top-notch supercomputer of reasonable scale. …

OSC Blends Intel HBM CPUs And Nvidia HBM GPUs For “Cardinal” Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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