The Next Platform

The Next Platform is a product of Stackhouse PublishingPlatformStack Inc and was officially launched on February 23, 2015, in collaboration with The Register, a leading technology magazine in the UK. This platform provides comprehensive insights into advanced computing within major organizations, supercomputing facilities, hyperscale data centers, and public cloud services.

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ABCI Evolves To Meet Japan’s Changing AI Needs

1 week ago | nextplatform.com | Timothy Prickett Morgan

SPONSORED FEATURE: Back before there were AI factories, there were two generations of the AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure supercomputer, built by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan. AIST created what is arguably the first AI factory, merging accelerated computing platforms with cloud infrastructure software to forge a shared utility for researchers in Japan to do AI experiments.
The AI Factory: 12,000 Years In The Making, And Absolutely Inevitable

1 week ago | nextplatform.com | Timothy Prickett Morgan

SPONSORED CONTENT When it comes to artificial intelligence, context is everything. The same thing holds true for human intelligence, so it stands to reason that it translates to AI since we created it in our own image. And now, we are watching companies like NVIDIA promote AI factories – literally supercomputers that think through petabytes of data and deliver intelligent answers at our prompting – as a new way to drive massive change in Earth’s global economy and cultures. How did we get here?
Google Woos HPC Centers With Fast CPUs And Networks

1 week ago | nextplatform.com | Timothy Prickett Morgan

The HPC centers of the world like fast networks and compute, but they are also always working under budget constraints unlike their AI peers out there in the enterprise, where money seems to be unlimited to what sometimes looks like an irrationally exuberant extent. They are also don’t have a lot of money, which has limited their use of cloud capacity.
With “Ironwood” TPU, Google Pushes The AI Accelerator To The Floor

2 weeks ago | nextplatform.com | Timothy Prickett Morgan

If you want to be a leading in supplying AI models and AI applications, as well as AI infrastructure to run it, to the world, it is also helpful to have a
UALink Fires First GPU Interconnect Salvo At Nvidia NVSwitch

2 weeks ago | nextplatform.com | Timothy Prickett Morgan

Compute engine makers can do all they want to bring the performance of their devices on par or even reasonably close to that of Nvidia’s various GPU accelerators, but until they have something akin to the NVLink and NVSwitch memory fabric that Nvidia uses to leverage the performance of many GPUs at bandwidths that dwarf PCI-Express switches and latencies that dwarf Ethernet interconnects, they can never catch up.
Dell Tackles AI Infrastructure With Disaggregated Servers And Storage

2 weeks ago | nextplatform.com | Jeffrey Burt

It is funny how companies can find money – lots of money – when they think IT infrastructure spending can save them money, make them money, or do both at the same time. This is the hope with AI, and everyone is trying to benefit from it in those ways. GenAI, which is where a lot of the excitement is coming from, is evolving from prompt-and-respond chatty interfaces to more sophisticated AI agents and reasoning models that are more thoughtful and can be entrusted to take actions.
A Deep Dive Into Datacenter And Server Spending Forecasts

2 weeks ago | nextplatform.com | Timothy Prickett Morgan

Spending on AI systems in 2024 just utterly blew by the expectations of the major market researchers and those who dabble in metrics like we do. There has just been an unprecedented amount of spending, mostly for systems that are accelerated by Nvidia GPUs. It remains to be seen how this spending will hold up, and any forecasts we can talk about today do not necessarily take into account the Second World Trade War that the United States is waging right now.
Parasail Brokers Between AI Compute Demand And Supply

3 weeks ago | nextplatform.com | Jeffrey Burt
A Second Opinion On Future GenAI Spending

3 weeks ago | nextplatform.com | Timothy Prickett Morgan

Two weeks ago, before we began our nightmare travels to get to the 2025 edition of the GOU Technology Conference in San Jose, we put together an analysis of the AI server and storage spending forecasts put out by the good folks at IDC. Now, we have a similar, and much tighter, forecast coming out of the other good folks at Gartner, who like IDC give those of us who don’t have big bucks for market research a little taste of what it must be like for those who do.
The Team That Will Implement Intel’s New Vision

3 weeks ago | nextplatform.com | Timothy Prickett Morgan

Intel is hosting its Vision 2025 annual event in Las Vegas this week, what we old hands used to call Intel Developer Forum back in the days when the chip maker was taking over more and more of the datacenter and had give the world a relatively inexpensive and uniform substrate on which to build hyperscale infrastructure.