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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 …
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 ...
IBM’s Red Hat Acquisition Will Pay For Itself By Early Next Year
Oct 24, 2024 · When the Red Hat acquisition was completed, the Red Hat systems software stack represented around 9.2 percent of 2019 overall “real” systems revenue at IBM, which is our estimate of sales of hardware, systems software, tech support, and financing relating to its System z and Power Systems lines.
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 ...
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.
Nvidia Says “Blackwell” GPU Issues Are Fixed, Ramp Starts In Fiscal …
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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.
Key Hyperscalers And Chip Makers Gang Up On Nvidia’s NVSwitch …
May 30, 2024 · The generative AI revolution is making strange bedfellows, as revolutions and emerging monopolies that capitalize on them, often do. The Ultra Ethernet Consortium was formed in July 2023 to take on Nvidia’s InfiniBand high performance interconnect, which has quickly and quite profitably become the de facto standard …
How MCR Memory Can More Than Double HPC And AI Performance
Oct 4, 2024 · Intel recently demonstrated a new type of DIMM memory technology called Multiplexer Combined Rank (MCR), also referred to as MRDIMMs, that provides up to 2.3X better performance for HPC workloads and up to a 2X better on AI inference workloads in comparison to 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors, based on internal Intel analysis.
AI Workloads Are Changing IT Demands At The Edge
Nov 12, 2024 · This is where Dell NativeEdge comes into the picture. It’s an innovative edge operations software platform designed to streamline and secure edge operations. The platform enables you to bring AI to the edge, faster and simpler, so you can rapidly deploy and manage edge solutions without compromising security or efficiency.