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. …
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 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. …
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. …
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. …
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? …
There is a seemingly endless list of problems to be solved and issues to be addressed in vendors’ steady march toward quantum computing. …
Broadcom’s $69 billion acquisition of virtualization stalwart VMware was not an easy proposition. …
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. …
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. …
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