Data Centers

Data centers are being reinvented via virtualization, servers with better performance per watt, and the increasing popularity of cloud computing. Key vendors such as Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, VMware and others are all pushing to make the data center more efficient.

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We will see a completely new type of computer, says AI pioneer Geoff Hinton

"Mortal computation" means analog computers marrying AI closely to hardware will put GPT-3 in your toaster for $1 running on a few watts of power.

December 1, 2022 by Tiernan Ray in AI & Robotics

AI challenger Cerebras unveils 'pay-per-model' AI cloud service with Cirrascale, Jasper

The pay-per-use cloud service promises to cut in half the cost of training GPT-3 and similar models while speeding up training time eightfold.

November 29, 2022 by Tiernan Ray in AI & Robotics

This giant supercomputer dominates the rankings, and catching it will take a lot of work

The US-based Frontier HPE Cray supercomputer is a long way ahead of other supercomputers around the world.

November 16, 2022 by Liam Tung in Data Centers

AI challenger Cerebras assembles modular supercomputer 'Andromeda' to speed up large language models

The building-block approach is able to dramatically reduce compute time compared to GPUs in direct proportion to how many machines are joined together.

November 14, 2022 by Tiernan Ray in AI & Robotics

In latest benchmark test of AI, it's mostly Nvidia competing against Nvidia

For the first time since the benchmark MLPerf test of AI training started in 2018, Nvidia had virtually no competition to its dominant chips.

November 9, 2022 by Tiernan Ray in AI & Robotics

Intel's 'highest density' new GPU will help power a supercomputer

While the new Intel Max Series product family is powering the Argonne National Lab's latest supercomputer, the chips are really designed for mainstream high-performance computing, Intel says.

November 9, 2022 by Stephanie Condon in Processors

Microsoft Cloud and AI chief Scott Guthrie on what's new and next for Microsoft Cloud customers

Microsoft Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie shares his takeaways on Microsoft's latest cloud, data platform, AI, Dynamics and Power Platform announcements this week at Ignite.

October 14, 2022 by Mary Jo Foley in Cloud

Kata Containers 3's marriage of virtual machines and containers continues

Suppose, just suppose, you could combine the speed and flexibility of containers with the security of virtual machines (VM). That's exactly what Kata Containers does.

October 11, 2022 by Steven Vaughan-Nichols in Virtualization

How Intel is upgrading everything about itself and its products

Chipmaker is making much more than CPUs thanks to new AI/ML applications, plans for new fabs, a revised GPU strategy and plans to become its own wafer foundry.

September 27, 2022 by Chris Preimesberger in Enterprise Software

Big changes ahead for the cloud business model, top CTO predicts

VMware CTO Kit Colbert sees a shift from "distributed" to "decentralized" architectures linked to blockchain for validation. This means multiple organizations running applications.

September 6, 2022 by Joe McKendrick in Enterprise Software

Nvidia, Dell, VMware add AI, zero-trust security into new data center package

Dell servers containing Nvidia DPUs, GPUs, and VMware vSphere 8 use multiple firewalls to improve security for cloud-based workloads.

August 30, 2022 by Chris Preimesberger in Data Centers

Microsoft's Arm-based Azure VMs are ready to roll

Microsoft is making VMs support Ampere Altra Arm processors generally available starting September 1.

August 29, 2022 by Mary Jo Foley in Cloud

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