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The market for cloud infrastructure is now so large that it is very difficult for it to change drastically. But given the fact that people can turn off server, storage, and networking capacity as easily as they can turn it on, predicting how much money the world will spend on …
Intel Shoots “Granite Rapids” Xeon 6 Into The Datacenter
Sep 24, 2024 · As we have pointed out many times, there are design wins and supply wins, and while prior generations of Xeons were clearly only supply wins, it is fair to say that both Sierra Forest and Granite Rapids are starting to get some design wins even if what Intel is selling is still due mostly to supply wins.
Microsoft Stargate: The Next AI Platform Will Be An Entire Cloud …
Apr 1, 2024 · The question is this: Will Microsoft keep investing vast sums in OpenAI so it can turn around and rent this capacity, or will it just stop screwing around and spend $100 billion on OpenAI (the company had a valuation of $80 billion two months ago) and another $110 billion or so more on infrastructure to have complete control of its AI stack.
Intel Xeon 6 With P-Cores Makes the Case For The Host CPU
Nov 26, 2024 · Another feature that is only in the Intel Xeon 6900 series with P-cores is the use of Intel AMX (Advanced Matrix Extensions), a built-in accelerator that enables AI workloads to run on the CPU rather than offloading them to the GPU and now supports FP16 models.
AMD ROCm 6.3 Has Goodies For AI Aficionados And HPC Gurus …
Nov 26, 2024 · The release of ROCm 6.3 continues to underscore just how big a difference optimized software can make. However, this isn’t unique to AMD. In MLPerf training, Nvidia has previously demonstrated a 1.3X improvement of performance over its initial “Hopper” H100 submissions thanks in part to software optimizations. With that said, driving these kinds of software optimizations are arguably ...
With Blackwell GPUs, AI Gets Cheaper And Easier, Competing With …
Mar 18, 2024 · And with advances in NVLink networking, hyperscalers, cloud builders, HPC centers and others can couple the memory and compute of hundreds of GPUs together tightly and with the advances in InfiniBand and Ethernet networking can lash together tens of thousands of GPUs together more loosely to build immensely powerful AI supercomputers that can also run HPC and data analytics workloads a whole ...
Microsoft Is First To Get HBM-Juiced AMD CPUs
Nov 22, 2024 · We think the HBM on CPU idea is sound, and there are some notable machines aside from Aurora using such memory, including the “Crossroads” ATS-3 all-CPU cluster installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in September 2022. Crossroads has a total of 11,880 of the Intel Xeon SP-9480 Platinum Max processors, which have 56 cores running at 1.9 GHz, for a total of 660,800 cores delivering a ...
Ford Lead Says HPC, GPUs, AI Are Keys to Driving Progress
Nov 22, 2024 · Like all auto manufacturers, Ford is pursuing what can only be described as a profound digital transformation. At the SC24 conference, David Kepczynski, the carmaker’s global chief of digital transformation for product development, outlined how high-performance computing, GPU acceleration, and AI/ML are reshaping the company’s approach to everything from safety, performance, and connected ...
Google Covers Its Compute Engine Bases Because It Has To
Oct 31, 2024 · The minute that search engine giant Google wanted to be a cloud, and the several years later that Google realized that companies were not ready to buy full-on platform services that masked the underlying hardware but wanted lower level infrastructure services that gave them more optionality as well as more responsibility, it was inevitable that Google Cloud would have to buy compute engines ...
Accenture Melds Smarts And Wares With Nvidia For Agentic AI Push
Oct 3, 2024 · “The opportunity for agents is gigantic,” Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang said during a conversation with Salesforce chief executive offer Marc Benioff at Salesforce’s Dreamforce show last month. “It sounds insane, but here’s the amazing thing: We’re going to have agents that obviously understand the subtleties of …