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WEBCOMMISSIONED: Robust data governance is key to ethical, compliant, and efficient AI projects. Here’s why the balance between innovation and responsibility is delicate, but crucial. In a bustling New York office, a data scientist named Emily is racing against the clock. Her team is developing an AI algorithm intended to revolutionize ….
Inside Tesla’s Innovative And Homegrown “Dojo” AI Supercomputer
WEBAug 31, 2022 — That, in a nutshell, is what Tesla’s Project Dojo chip, interconnect, and supercomputer effort is all about. At the Hot Chips 34 conference, the chip, system, and software engineers who worked on the Dojo supercomputer unveiled many of the architectural features of the machine for the first time, and promised to talk about the performance of the Dojo system at the Tesla AI Day 2 event on ...
This Is What The Most Powerful Server In The World Looks Like
WEBSep 8, 2021 — Here is what matters. The Power p5 595 with 64 Power5 cores in 32 sockets running at 1.9 GHz had a rating of 306.21 on IBM’s Relative Performance (rPerf) online transaction performance benchmark test. The 240-core, 16-socket Power E1080 has an rPerf rating of 7,998.6.
IBM Shows Off Next-Gen AI Acceleration, On Chip DPU For Big Iron
WEBAug 27, 2024 — Berry disclosed some of the details about the Telum II chip, including its on-die DPU, and also revealed that IBM is indeed going to commercialize the AI Acceleration Unit, or AIU, which was developed by IBM Research over the years and which we talked about in detail back in October 2022. At the time, we also admonished Big Blue, saying that ...
Deep Dive Into Nvidia’s “Hopper” GPU Architecture - The Next …
WEBMar 31, 2022 — Deep Dive Into Nvidia’s “Hopper” GPU Architecture. March 31, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan Compute 1. With each passing generation of GPU accelerator engines from Nvidia, machine learning drives more and more of the architectural choices and changes and traditional HPC simulation and modeling drives less and …
Dell’s Omnia HPC Software Play - The Next Platform
WEBJun 28, 2021 — The platform essentially creates a pool of resources that can be drawn upon to address workload needs. Dell has had the Omnia software stack available on GitHub since March. It’s an open-source set of Ansible playbooks developed by Dell’s HPC and AI Innovation Lab, in in partnership with Intel and the HPC community, Caitlin Gordon, vice ...
This AI Network Has No Spine – And That’s A Good Thing
WEBAug 23, 2024 — Here is a very interesting chart that Wang put together showing the interplay of network cost and network power as the AI clusters are scaled: At a doubling of GPU count to 65,536 devices, network would cost $300 million at 400 Gb/sec port speeds and would consume around 6 megawatts of power. Most of …
Linux Is The Next Platform, But Who Pays To Maintain It?
WEBJul 13, 2023 — To be sure, the criticism of Red Hat and IBM has been harsh. Oracle and SUSE – which last year introduced its RHEL-compatible Liberty Linux distribution – both said this week that they will fork their enterprise Linux OSes, with SUSE saying it will throw at least $10 million behind the effort. Oracle Linux will remain RHEL-compatible ...
Why AMD “Genoa” Epyc Server CPUs Take The Heavyweight Title
WEBNov 10, 2022 — With the “Genoa” Epyc 9004s launched today – and the follow-on derivative “Genoa-X” and “Bergamo” and “Siena” server CPUs coming next year – AMD is wielding the metal chair. Now, we live in a world where Intel has supply wins because AMD’s business is constrained by chip manufacturing substrates, for which Intel must ...
Inside Amazon’s Graviton3 Arm Server Processor - The Next Platform
WEBJan 4, 2022 — Inside Amazon’s Graviton3 Arm Server Processor. January 4, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan Compute 16. 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 precisely one – …