Jeffrey Burt, Author at The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/author/jeffrey/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Tue, 03 Sep 2024 18:17:45 +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 Jeffrey Burt, Author at The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/author/jeffrey/ 32 32 86113652 VMware Wants To Redefine Private Cloud With VCF 9 https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/27/vmware-wants-to-redefine-private-cloud-with-vcf-9/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/27/vmware-wants-to-redefine-private-cloud-with-vcf-9/#respond Tue, 27 Aug 2024 20:14:39 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144600 We all had been wondering what VMware would look like when it became part of Broadcom’s massive universe following the semiconductor giant’s $69 billion acquisition of the virtualization juggernaut. …

VMware Wants To Redefine Private Cloud With VCF 9 was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/27/vmware-wants-to-redefine-private-cloud-with-vcf-9/feed/ 0 144600 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 Rackspace Goes All In – Again – On OpenStack https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/22/rackspace-goes-all-in-again-on-openstack/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/22/rackspace-goes-all-in-again-on-openstack/#comments Thu, 22 Aug 2024 20:08:43 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144562 Rackspace Technology has admittedly been relatively quiet in recent years when it’s come to OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure platform that was born in 2010 out of the collaboration between the cloud computing company and NASA. …

Rackspace Goes All In – Again – On OpenStack was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/22/rackspace-goes-all-in-again-on-openstack/feed/ 3 144562 For Meta Platforms, An Open AI Policy Is The Best Policy https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/30/for-meta-platforms-an-open-ai-policy-is-the-best-policy/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/30/for-meta-platforms-an-open-ai-policy-is-the-best-policy/#respond Tue, 30 Jul 2024 14:07:12 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144466 For Mark Zuckerberg, the decision by Meta Platforms – and way back when it was still known as Facebook – to open much of its technology – including server and storage designs, datacenter designs, and most recently its Llama AI large language models – came about because the company often found itself trailing competitors when it came to deploying advanced technologies. …

For Meta Platforms, An Open AI Policy Is The Best Policy was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/30/for-meta-platforms-an-open-ai-policy-is-the-best-policy/feed/ 0 144466 Meta Lets Its Largest Llama AI Model Loose Into The Open Field https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/25/meta-lets-its-largest-llama-ai-model-loose-into-the-open-field/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/25/meta-lets-its-largest-llama-ai-model-loose-into-the-open-field/#comments Thu, 25 Jul 2024 19:23:05 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144452 A scant three months ago, when Meta Platforms released the Llama 3 AI model in 8B and 70B versions, which correspond to the billions of parameters they can span, we asked the question we ask of every open source tool or platform since the dawn of Linux: Who’s going to profit from it and how are they going to do it? …

Meta Lets Its Largest Llama AI Model Loose Into The Open Field was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/25/meta-lets-its-largest-llama-ai-model-loose-into-the-open-field/feed/ 1 144452 GPU-Armed Scientists Solve A Quantum Annealing Debate https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/22/gpu-armed-scientists-solve-a-quantum-annealing-debate/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/22/gpu-armed-scientists-solve-a-quantum-annealing-debate/#comments Mon, 22 Jul 2024 14:00:24 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144442 There is a seemingly endless list of problems to be solved and issues to be addressed in vendors’ steady march toward quantum computing. …

GPU-Armed Scientists Solve A Quantum Annealing Debate was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/22/gpu-armed-scientists-solve-a-quantum-annealing-debate/feed/ 2 144442 Cloud Foundation Updates Reflect The New VMware By Broadcom https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/25/cloud-foundation-updates-reflect-the-new-vmware-by-broadcom/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/25/cloud-foundation-updates-reflect-the-new-vmware-by-broadcom/#respond Tue, 25 Jun 2024 18:10:40 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144341 Broadcom’s $69 billion acquisition of virtualization stalwart VMware was not an easy proposition. …

Cloud Foundation Updates Reflect The New VMware By Broadcom was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/25/cloud-foundation-updates-reflect-the-new-vmware-by-broadcom/feed/ 0 144341 HPE Goes After Enterprise AI With Nvidia GPU Engines https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/19/hpe-goes-after-enterprise-ai-with-nvidia-gpu-engines/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/19/hpe-goes-after-enterprise-ai-with-nvidia-gpu-engines/#comments Wed, 19 Jun 2024 21:25:15 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144317 This week is another major conference for a server OEM, and that must mean it is another time for an OEM to announce its tight partnership with AI compute engine juggernaut Nvidia. …

HPE Goes After Enterprise AI With Nvidia GPU Engines was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/19/hpe-goes-after-enterprise-ai-with-nvidia-gpu-engines/feed/ 3 144317 D-Wave Is Still Making The Case For Annealing Quantum Computing https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/18/d-wave-is-still-making-the-case-for-annealing-quantum-computing/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/18/d-wave-is-still-making-the-case-for-annealing-quantum-computing/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2024 17:28:09 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144310 Murray Thom, vice president for quantum technology evangelism for D-Wave, knows that his company for more than two decades has played a key role in a somewhat unusual industry. …

D-Wave Is Still Making The Case For Annealing Quantum Computing was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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