Connect Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/category/connect/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Thu, 29 Aug 2024 03:14:55 +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 Connect Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/category/connect/ 32 32 86113652 Bechtolsheim Outlines Scaling XPU Performance By 100X By 2028 https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/26/bechtolsheim-outlines-scaling-xpu-performance-by-100x-by-2028/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/26/bechtolsheim-outlines-scaling-xpu-performance-by-100x-by-2028/#comments Mon, 26 Aug 2024 17:12:10 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144576 Effects are multiplicative, not additive, when it comes to increasing compute engine performance. …

Bechtolsheim Outlines Scaling XPU Performance By 100X By 2028 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/26/bechtolsheim-outlines-scaling-xpu-performance-by-100x-by-2028/feed/ 6 144576 This AI Network Has No Spine – And That’s A Good Thing https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/23/this-ai-network-has-no-spine-and-thats-a-good-thing/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/23/this-ai-network-has-no-spine-and-thats-a-good-thing/#comments Fri, 23 Aug 2024 18:58:04 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144567 When you are designing applications that run across the scale of an entire datacenter and that are comprised of hundreds to thousands of microservices running on countless individual servers and that have to be called within a matter of microseconds to give the illusion of a monolithic application, building fully connected, high bi-section bandwidth Clos networks is a must. …

This AI Network Has No Spine – And That’s A Good Thing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/23/this-ai-network-has-no-spine-and-thats-a-good-thing/feed/ 6 144567 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 Arista Banks On The AI Network Double Whammy https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/21/arista-banks-on-the-ai-network-double-whammy/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/21/arista-banks-on-the-ai-network-double-whammy/#comments Wed, 21 Aug 2024 20:17:05 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144549 Current AI training and some AI inference clusters have two networks. …

Arista Banks On The AI Network Double Whammy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/21/arista-banks-on-the-ai-network-double-whammy/feed/ 3 144549 AI Pervades The Cisco Stack, But Is Only Starting To Drive Sales https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/15/ai-pervades-the-cisco-stack-but-is-only-starting-to-drive-sales/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/15/ai-pervades-the-cisco-stack-but-is-only-starting-to-drive-sales/#comments Thu, 15 Aug 2024 15:40:54 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144529 Like many other suppliers of hardware and systems software, Cisco Systems is trying to figure out how to make money on the AI revolution. …

AI Pervades The Cisco Stack, But Is Only Starting To Drive Sales was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/15/ai-pervades-the-cisco-stack-but-is-only-starting-to-drive-sales/feed/ 1 144529 AI Era Datacenters Need AI-Ready Ethernet Switching https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/25/ai-era-datacenters-need-ai-ready-ethernet-switching/ Thu, 25 Jul 2024 18:05:52 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144450 SPONSORED POST: The rapid breakout of Artificial Intelligence is driving business opportunities across verticals – but there’s one sector for which AI presents some formidable challenges, and that’s the datacenter industry itself. …

AI Era Datacenters Need AI-Ready Ethernet Switching was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> 144450 What If Omni-Path Morphs Into The Best Ultra Ethernet? https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/26/what-if-omni-path-morphs-into-the-best-ultra-ethernet/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/26/what-if-omni-path-morphs-into-the-best-ultra-ethernet/#comments Wed, 26 Jun 2024 16:05:19 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144350 UPDATED: Nvidia is a member of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium.

The jury is still out on a lot of things about this exploding AI market and the re-convergence that it will have with traditional HPC systems for running simulations and models. …

What If Omni-Path Morphs Into The Best Ultra Ethernet? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/26/what-if-omni-path-morphs-into-the-best-ultra-ethernet/feed/ 12 144350 Can Marvell Profit As It Tries To Triple Its Business By 2028? https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/21/can-marvell-profit-as-it-tries-to-triple-its-business-by-2028/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/21/can-marvell-profit-as-it-tries-to-triple-its-business-by-2028/#comments Fri, 21 Jun 2024 23:16:23 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144321 A rising tide may lift all boats, and that is a good thing these days with any company that has an AI oar in the water. …

Can Marvell Profit As It Tries To Triple Its Business By 2028? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/21/can-marvell-profit-as-it-tries-to-triple-its-business-by-2028/feed/ 9 144321 The Increasing Impatience Of The Speed Of The PCI-Express Roadmap https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/14/the-increasing-impatience-of-the-speed-of-the-pci-express-roadmap/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/14/the-increasing-impatience-of-the-speed-of-the-pci-express-roadmap/#comments Fri, 14 Jun 2024 19:09:21 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144292 Richard Solomon has heard the rumblings over the years. As vice president of PCI-SIG, the organization that controls the development of the PCI-Express specification, he has listened to questions about how long it takes the group to bring the latest spec to the industry. …

The Increasing Impatience Of The Speed Of The PCI-Express Roadmap was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/14/the-increasing-impatience-of-the-speed-of-the-pci-express-roadmap/feed/ 7 144292 Cisco Pushes Nvidia Enterprise AI, But Has Its Own Network Agenda https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/07/cisco-pushes-nvidia-enterprise-ai-but-has-its-own-network-agenda/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/07/cisco-pushes-nvidia-enterprise-ai-but-has-its-own-network-agenda/#comments Fri, 07 Jun 2024 14:36:02 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144268 In those heady months following OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, much of the IT industry’s focus was on huge and expensive cloud infrastructures running on powerful GPU clusters to train the large language models that underpin the chatbots and other generative AI workloads. …

Cisco Pushes Nvidia Enterprise AI, But Has Its Own Network Agenda was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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