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Brad McCredie like engines, and more importantly, he likes to make them go fast. …

Brad McCredie Is The Pedal To AMD’s Datacenter GPU Metal was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Economic and technical forces have a kind of momentum that keeps them growing even as any new technology goes through its inevitable hype cycle from innovation to inflated expectations to disillusionment to deployment into productivity. …

GenAI Boom: Datacenter Spending Forecast Raised Again was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

COMMISSIONED:  Among the many tough decisions IT leaders face is where to best host AI workloads. …

How Enterprise AI Can Ease The Data Gravity Burden was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The dependency dance between AI pioneer OpenAI and the Microsoft Azure cloud and the application software divisions of its parent company are fascinating to watch. …

OpenAI Declares Its Hardware Independence (Sort Of) With Stargate Project was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The University of Stuttgart’s High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) in Germany tapped Hewlett Packard Enterprise back in December 2023 to build a prototype hybrid CPU-GPU supercomputer nicknamed “Hunter” to pave the way towards an exascale-class machine it is budgeting to have installed in 2027 called “Herder.” …

HLRS Takes First Steps To Exascale was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

It is not hard to figure out who is in the catbird seat in the semiconductor foundry business. …

TSMC Can’t Be Caught Or Bought, Only Sought Or Stolen was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

AI agents are the latest evolution in the relatively short life span of generative AI, and while some organizations are still trying to figure out how the emerging technology fits in their operations, others are making strides into agentic AI. …

Using NIM Guardrails To Keep Agentic AI From Jumping To Wrong Conclusions was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

COMMISSIONED: As with any emerging technology, implementing generative AI large language models (LLMs) isn’t easy and it’s totally fair to look side-eyed at anyone who suggests otherwise. …

Can Synthetic Data Help Us Scale AI’s Data Wall? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware in November 2023 and the subsequent changes to venerable virtualization company’s business model and pricing have rankled many long-time enterprise users, a situation that has been highly publicized despite assertions by Broadcom and VMware executives that such reports are little than FUD – short for fear, uncertainty, and doubt. …

Red Hat Woos VMware Shops With OpenShift Virtualization Engine was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

As one year ends and another begins, this is often the time when people change jobs and companies change strategies. …

It’s January: Datacenter Compute Rumors And Moves was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Perhaps no document has ever had a more appropriate title than the “Interim Final Rule on Artificial Intelligence Diffusion” announced by the Biden Administration and the US Department of Commerce today. …

Unstable Diffusion: Artificial Intelligence Meets Military Intelligence was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Transaction processing against relational databases may not be the focus of the datacenter, as it was when IBM created the first relational database and Oracle was founded to compete against it in the late 1970s. …

Oracle Revs Up Exadata Database Machines To X11M was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

IT companies have spent billions of dollars creating ways to move data more efficiently and cheaply in an increasingly distributed world of on-premises datacenters, multiple clouds, and the edge. …

A Novel Way To Compact Data For More Efficient Storage And Transmission was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

COMMISSIONED: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become the gold standard for helping businesses refine their large language model (LLM) results with corporate data. …

Scaling Retrieval Augmented Generation With RAGOps And Agents was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.