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WEBAWS Adds Managed Slurm To ParallelCluster Cloudy Supercomputers. It is hard to believe that Amazon Web Services has been selling compute, storage, and networking capacity for nearly two decades. And it is easy to mistakenly think of AWS as mostly a subsidiary of Amazon that rents hardware capacity on the fly.
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WEBSeptember 6, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan. All of the weather and climate simulation centers on Earth are trying to figure out how to use a mixture of traditional HPC simulation and modeling with various kinds of AI prediction to create forecasts for both near-term weather and long-term climate that have higher fidelity and go out further into ...
Nvidia Shows What Optically Linked GPU Systems Might Look Like
WEBAug 17, 2022 · Here’s Dally’s sketch of what that DWDM signaling might look like: And here is the block diagram of how the GPU and the NVSwitch would have optical engines to convert electrical signaling to optical signaling to create an NVSwitch network of the GPUs: There are 24 fibers coming off each Optical Engine, and they initially would run at 200 Gb ...
First In-Depth Look at Google’s TPU Architecture - The Next Platform
WEBApr 5, 2017 · First In-Depth Look at Google’s TPU Architecture. April 5, 2017 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett. Four years ago, Google started to see the real potential for deploying neural networks to support a large number of new services. During that time it was also clear that, given the existing hardware, if people …
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WEBAugust 20, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan. It’s still Ketchup Week here at The Next Platform, and we are going to be circling back to look at the financials of a number of bellwether datacenter companies that we could not get to during a number of medical crisis – including but not limited to our family catching COVID when we took a week of ...
Arista Banks On The AI Network Double Whammy - The Next …
WEBAug 21, 2024 · Arista is now seeing a similar, but somewhat different, pattern among its customers as it awaits an Ethernet boom in AI networking in 2025. Arista has been rejiggering its product line in anticipation of that boom for the past two years, and like Cisco is a founding champion of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium that has the explicit purpose of having Ethernet displace InfiniBand in AI clusters ...
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WEBThe Difficulty – And Necessity – Of Parsing Out AI Spending. September 13, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan. For a decade before the generative AI boom took off in late 2022, classical artificial intelligence, used for all kinds of self-learning predictive algorithms, was destined to be a very large component of the IT stack at most ...
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WEBTimothy Prickett Morgan. Co-Editor, Co-Founder, The Next Platform Timothy Prickett Morgan brings 32 years of experience as a publisher, IT industry analyst, editor, and journalist for some of the world’s most widely-read high-tech and business publications including The Next Platform, EnterpriseTech, The Register, BusinessWeek, Midrange Computing, IT Jungle, Unigram, The Four Hundred ...
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What If Omni-Path Morphs Into The Best Ultra Ethernet? - The …
WEBJun 26, 2024 · This product, says Murphy, was already cooked and will not support UEC specifications. But things start to get interesting with the 800 Gb/sec Omni-Path CN6000 switches and adapters coming in 2026. “We are coming out in early 2026 with the 800 Gb/sec product, and that will probably be too early …