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Faster Interconnects and Switches to Help Relieve Data Bottlenecks
Nvidia’s new Blackwell architecture may have stolen the show this week at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California. But an emerging bottleneck at the network layer threatens to make bigger and brawnier pro Read more…
The Generative AI Future Is Now, Nvidia’s Huang Says
We are in the early days of a transformative shift in how business gets done thanks to the advent of generative AI, according to Nvidia CEO and cofounder Jensen Huang, who shared his vision for the future of computing to Read more…
The Future of AI Is Hybrid
Artificial intelligence today is largely something that occurs in the cloud, where huge AI models are trained and deployed on massive racks of GPUs. But as AI makes its inevitable migration into to the applications and d Read more…
Enterprises Have Already Made Deep Investments in Data Infrastructure; With AI, They’ll Finally See a Return
The rise of generative AI has captured the imagination of tech enthusiasts and enterprise leaders alike. The promise–and risk–of AI is of a world transformed at a pace never seen before. Enterprises, both fledgling a Read more…
How AWS Plans to Cope with GenAI’s Insatiable Desire for Compute
Companies that toyed around with generative AI this year will be looking to play for keeps in 2024 with production GenAI apps that move the business needle. Considering there’s not enough GPUs to go around now, where w Read more…
News In Brief
AWS Introduces a Flurry of New EC2 Instances at re:Invent
AWS has announced three new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances powered by AWS-designed chips, as well as several new Intel-powered instances at its AWS re:Invent 2022 event in Las Vegas. The first new Read more…
IBM Collaboration Looks to Bring Massive AI Models to Any Cloud
Training machine learning foundation models with sometimes billions of parameters demands serious computing power. For example, the largest version of GPT-3, the famous large language model behind OpenAI’s DALL-E 2, ha Read more…
Quine Streaming Graph Processes Over One Million Events Per Second
Quine, a real-time graph data processing engine for ETL pipelines, has reached a performance benchmark of processing one million events per second, according to its maker, thatDot. Named after logician Willard Van Orm Read more…
AMD Previews 400 Gig Adaptive SmartNIC SOC at Hot Chips
Fresh from finalizing its acquisitions of FPGA provider Xilinx (Feb. 2022) and DPU provider Pensando (May 2022), AMD previewed what it calls a 400 Gig Adaptive smartNIC SOC yesterday at Hot Chips. It is another cont Read more…
This Just In
SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 14, 2024 — Hammerspace today introduced the latest version of Hammerspace Global Data Platform software, unlocking a new tier of storage by transforming local NVMe storage on GPU servers into a Tier 0 of ultra-fast, persistent shared storage. Read more…
SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 5, 2024 — Rackspace Technology has announced the expansion of Rackspace Spot with a new geographic location and an on-demand GPU-as-a-Service powered by NVIDIA. Read more…
COLOGNE, Germany, Oct. 31, 2024 — DeepL, a leading global Language AI company, today announced it will be among the first to commercially deploy the NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD with DGX GB200 systems. Read more…
TEL AVIV, Israel and MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 30, 2024 — NextSilicon, a pioneer in high-performance computing (HPC) innovation, today announced its emergence from stealth with the launch of Maverick-2, the industry’s first Intelligent Compute Accelerator (ICA). Read more…
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 29, 2024 — Cisco today announced new additions to its data center infrastructure portfolio: an AI server family purpose-built for GPU-intensive AI workloads with NVIDIA accelerated computing, and AI PODs to simplify and de-risk AI infrastructure investment. Read more…