Earlier this spring, AMD, Broadcom, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI formed the Optical Compute Interconnect ...

Yes, that simple question is, in the modern Nvidia world that has come to dominate AI training and to a certain extent HPC simulation and modeling, heretical. But given that CPUs are in many cases ...

At that point, the investments to create the AWS cloud started to rise, and the money coming in for AWS was ploughed back into infrastructure expansion and as far as I can tell, AWS did not really ...

Damkroger has been in the HPC field for more than three decades, with long stints at Sandia National Laboratory and Lawrence ...

In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale datacenters, and public clouds ...

It has been nine years since a Chinese HPC supercomputer was at the top of the High Performance Linpack performance rankings, but as we all know, China did break through the exascale flops barrier at ...

The deal for Nvidia to acquire Mellanox, which was announced last March for $6.9 billion, has finally passed muster with all of the regulatory bodies of the world and closed today. The combination of ...

High tech companies always have roadmaps. Whether or not they show them to the public, they are always showing them to key investors if they are in their early stages, getting ready to sell some ...

The Graviton family of Arm server chips designed by the Annapurna Labs division of Amazon Web Services is arguably the highest volume Arm server chips the datacenter market today, and they have ...

In the early years of the GPU acceleration of application performance – really from “Kepler” datacenter GPUs in May 2012 to “Volta” in May 2017 – Nvidia, the world’s most important technology company ...

We like datacenter compute engines here at The Next Platform, but as the name implies, what we really like are platforms – how compute, storage, networking, and systems software are brought together ...