Cloud
Oracle Goes Massively Parallel, Low Cost With Exadata Exascale
Maybe, if you need blazing performance extracting data and chewing on it from a relational database, it belongs in a cloud. …
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AWS Pushes Bang For The Buck With Graviton 4 Instances
UPDATED: Mea culpa. Due to an error in calculating the performance of the Graviton 4, we wrongly asserted that the price/performance of these chips was worse than, not better than, that of the Graviton 3. …
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Cloud Revenues Will Bust Through $1 Trillion Before Too Long
Cloud is an attitude as much as it is a consumption model. …
Cloud
AI Accelerates Cloud Revenues As Well As Cloud Investments
Three years ago, thanks in part to competitive pressures as Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and others started giving Amazon Web Services a run for the cloud money, the growth rate in quarterly spending on cloud services was slowing. …
AI
Amazon Gives Anthropic $2.75 Billion So It Can Spend It On AWS XPUs
If Microsoft has the half of OpenAI that didn’t leave, then Amazon and its Amazon Web Services cloud division needs the half of OpenAI that did leave – meaning Anthropic. …
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Hyperscalers Bringing Nvidia’s Grace-Blackwell Superchip To Their Clouds
At his company’s GTC 2024 Technical Conference this week, Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang, unveiled the chip maker’s massive Blackwell GPUs and accompanying NVLink networking systems, promising a future where hyperscale cloud providers, HPC centers, and other organizations of size and means can meet the rapidly increasing compute demands driven by the emergence of generative AI. …
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AWS And Nvidia Reboot “Ceiba” Supercomputer For Blackwell GPUs
Last November, we got a sneak peak at a supercomputer called “Ceiba” that would be built jointly by Nvidia and Amazon Web Services, based on its then-new GH200 Grace-Hopper CPU-GPU compute complexes, its NVLink Switch 3 memory fabric for GPUs, and the Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA2) Ethernet interconnect that is custom designed by AWS to link racks of machines to each other. …
Cloud
Kubernetes Clusters Have Massive Overprovisioning Of Compute And Memory
In the ten years since Google released Kubernetes to the open source community, it has become the dominant platform for orchestrating and managing software containers and microservices, along the way muscling out competitors like Docker Swarm and Mesosphere. …
AI
Lambda Snags $320 Million To Grow Its Rent-A-GPU Cloud
Riding high on the AI hype cycle, Lambda – formerly known as Lambda Labs and well known to readers of The Next Platform – has received a $320 million cash infusion to expand its GPU cloud to support training clusters spanning thousands of Nvidia’s top specced accelerators. …
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You Can Build GenAI From Scratch, Or Go Straight To SaaS
The vibe around generative AI is still one of a land rush since OpenAI unleased ChatGPT into the public sphere in late November 2022, with investors dishing out millions of dollars, vendors big and small pumping out products and services, and organizations trying to integrate them into their back-office and user-facing operations. …