AMD thinks it can solve the power/heat problem with chiplets and code
Interview CTO Mark Papermaster lays out the plan for the next two years
Systems08 Dec 2023 | 7
Datacenter
Datacenters feeling the heat to turn hot air into cool solutions
It's tricky to pull off, but new rules may make reuse more common
On-Prem08 Dec 2023 | 6
Google unveils TPU v5p pods to accelerate AI training
Need a lot of compute? How does 8,960 TPUs sound?
Systems06 Dec 2023 | 2
Now is a good time to buy memory because prices rise next year, Gartner predicts
To blame? The usual suspect – AI's appetite for chips
Systems04 Dec 2023 | 7
China's first undersea datacenter sinks – as planned
Asia In Brief PLUS: India's landmark digital law delayed; Singaporean banks de-digitize some accounts; AUKUS to unleash AI
Off-Prem03 Dec 2023 | 2
Google goes geothermal to power some bitbarns
Search giant exploring more locations to squeeze watts from rocks
On-Prem29 Nov 2023 | 31
NARROWER TOPICS
Vertiv goes against the grain with wooden datacenters for greener bytes
Will timber tech take root or just go up in flames?
On-Prem28 Nov 2023 | 15
Nvidia’s China-market H20 chips hit another speed bump
Integration woes delay Nvidia's hopes of maintaining grip on Middle Kingdom
Systems27 Nov 2023 | 2
Datacenter architect creates bonkers designs to illustrate the craft, and quirks, of building bit barns
They’re basically skyscrapers, says Charles Fortin. But they could be ships, cars, or rocks
On-Prem27 Nov 2023 | 36
Nvidia intros the 'SuperNIC' – it's like a SmartNIC, DPU or IPU, but more super
If you're doing AI but would rather not do InfiniBand, this NIC is for you
Networks21 Nov 2023 | 6
Researchers weigh new benchmarks for Green500 amid shifting workload priorities
SC23 Just because it's super efficient at Linpack doesn't mean it'll be in everything
HPC20 Nov 2023 |
Fujitsu-backed FDK claims nickel zinc batteries ready for use in UPSes
Might be great for the datacenter, but not likely to be in EVs anytime soon
On-Prem15 Nov 2023 | 26
Intel drops the deets on UK's Dawn AI supercomputer
SC23 Phase one packs 512 Xeons, 1,024 Ponte Vecchio GPUs. Phase two: 10x that
HPC13 Nov 2023 | 6
Datacenter would spoil beautiful view ... of former industrial waste dump
Not in my backyard, says Buckinghamshire Council
Systems10 Nov 2023 | 53
Overheating datacenter stopped 2.5 million bank transactions
Running infrastructure in the tropics has its challenges – but so do failed disaster recovery plans
On-Prem07 Nov 2023 | 20
Ireland to develop datacenter powered by fuel cells
Green move comes against backdrop of 82 energy-sucking bit barns with growing power draw needs
On-Prem07 Nov 2023 | 17
Vanishing power feeds, UPS batteries, failover fails... Cloudflare explains that two-day outage
A little peek behind the control panel, analytics curtain
On-Prem07 Nov 2023 | 26
UK throws millions at scheme to heat homes with waste energy from datacenters
A load of hot air?
On-Prem06 Nov 2023 | 189
Developing AI models or giant GPU clusters? Uncle Sam would like a word
Analysis But the astronomical performance thresholds mean few ML operators will be required to report at this rate
HPC05 Nov 2023 | 18
Nvidia sells Foxconn on AI factories that turn raw data into profit
Or, at least, information that can drive profits anyway
AI + ML18 Oct 2023 |
Hyperscale datacenter capacity set to triple because of AI demand
And it's going to suck... up more power too
AI + ML18 Oct 2023 | 1
Microsoft seeking robots to help automate datacenters
Redmond runs ad to hire fleshbag team manager to make the magic happen
On-Prem16 Oct 2023 | 6
If you're brave enough to move fully-laden datacenter racks, here's the robot for you
Open Compute Partner with a material handling pedigree appears to be doing it for Meta already
On-Prem16 Oct 2023 | 30
AI processing could consume 'as much electricity as Ireland'
Boffins estimate power needed if every Google search became an LLM interaction. Gulp
AI + ML11 Oct 2023 | 14
Datacenter cabling biz Volex confirms digital break-in
All sites operational, no 'material' financial impact expected but stock markets still worried
Cyber-crime09 Oct 2023 |
China updates national computing plan with calls for more edge, storage, memory, and … Blu-ray?
Beijing wants latency down, more sharing of compute capacity
Off-Prem09 Oct 2023 | 10
Blockchain biz goes nuclear: Standard Power wants to use NuScale reactors for DCs
Please, no crypto boom, thank you
Systems08 Oct 2023 | 36
Amazon, Microsoft under UK regulator's eye as cloud market probe confirmed
Egress fees, interoperability and licensing discounts all in the crosshairs
PaaS + IaaS05 Oct 2023 | 5
Nukes, schmukes – fuel cells could power future datacenters
At least in the tropics, say Equinix and the National University of Singapore
Off-Prem04 Oct 2023 | 45
Microsoft takes concrete steps (literally) toward greener datacenter construction
Plan is to mix a dose of sustainability into bit barn foundations
On-Prem03 Oct 2023 | 11
From vacuum tubes to qubits – is quantum computing destined to repeat history?
Analysis Having seen how conventional computers changed the world, can you really afford to bet against it?
HPC03 Oct 2023 | 31
CERN swells storage space beyond 1EB for LHC's latest ion-whacking experiments
A petabyte or more a day of readings? No problem, pal
Storage02 Oct 2023 | 12
Datacenters face double dilemma of supply issues and a need for speed
Skills shortage is also holding industry back, survey finds
CxO02 Oct 2023 | 4
Nuclear-powered datacenters: What could go wrong?
Kettle Or very right? Either way, it's not the usual atomic op we see in IT
On-Prem29 Sep 2023 | 90
Supermicro CEO predicts 20 percent of datacenters will adopt liquid cooling
30th birthday post reveals 2004 disaster movie continues to influence company strategy
On-Prem29 Sep 2023 | 12
Why can't datacenter operators stop thinking about atomic power?
Analysis Three words: Cheap, reliable, power
Off-Prem27 Sep 2023 | 71
AI startup Lamini bets future on AMD's Instinct GPUs
Oh MI word: In the AI race, any accelerator beats none at all
Systems26 Sep 2023 |
Facing a 30% price rise to park servers in a colo? Blame AI
Amygdala analogues are hogging all the rackspace
On-Prem25 Sep 2023 | 3
Core blimey, Intel's answer to AMD and Ampere's cloudy chips has 288 of them
And they're all tailored for efficiency
Systems20 Sep 2023 | 12
Nvidia's 900 tons of GPU muscle bulks up server market, slims down wallets
Fewer boxes shipped, but with 8 H100s apiece, revenue is up amid AI frenzy
Systems19 Sep 2023 | 4
Schneider Electric warns that existing datacenters aren't buff enough for AI
You're going to need liquid-cooled servers, 415V PDUs, two-ton racks, and plenty of software management
On-Prem19 Sep 2023 | 11
Intel thinks glass substrates are a clear winner in multi-die packaging
Don't get too excited, tech won't be ready until the end of the decade
Systems18 Sep 2023 | 11
Morgan Stanley values Tesla's super-hyped supercomputer at up to $500B
Musk snaps up Nvidia GPUs even as he builds Dojo. Finance bods foresee SaaSy AI, rivers of cash
AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 21
d-Matrix bets on in-memory compute to undercut Nvidia in smaller AI models
Microsoft among in-memory AI chip startup's backers
AI + ML07 Sep 2023 | 3
Los Alamos finishes installing Crossroads super to test nukes without a big bang
Memory-optimized beast prioritizes weapon-sim perf over flashy FLOPS figs
HPC02 Sep 2023 | 19
Demand for datacenter capacity in Europe sees busiest Q2 ever
'Pre-leasing' also on the up as customers try to grab space in bit barns as they're being built
Systems01 Sep 2023 | 2
Our AI habit is already changing the way we build datacenters
Analysis If you thought a 700W GPU was hot, imagine what it takes to keep racks full of 15kW accelerators cool
On-Prem18 Aug 2023 | 15
Virginia industrial park wants to power DCs with mini nuclear reactors, clean hydrogen
It's buzzword bingo: The datacenter sustainability edition
On-Prem17 Aug 2023 | 16
Why securing East-West network traffic is so important – and how it can be done
Systems Approach You don't want to hand your datacenter over to an intruder quite so easily
Networks16 Aug 2023 | 15
Tesla is looking for people to build '1st of its kind Data Centers'
Meanwhile, in China, electric auto outfit emphasizes local bit barn for storage
Off-Prem15 Aug 2023 | 19
Let's play... Force off the power to someone else's datacenter systems
DEF CON Trellix bods say it's not that hard to do, thanks to these vulnerabilities
Black Hat and DEF CON12 Aug 2023 | 14
Digital Realty: We hear you like your racks dense, how does 70kW sound?
What else do you do when a single GPU node needs 10kW?
On-Prem08 Aug 2023 | 6
AMD hopes for rebound in the second half of the year as Q2 profits plunge 94%
Don't worry, AI will fix everything, predicts CEO Lisa Su
On-Prem02 Aug 2023 | 2
Microsoft places huge cap-ex bets on datacenters for cloud and AI
CFO says paying customers expected to flood in from 2024
AI + ML28 Jul 2023 | 5
Thames Water to datacenters: Cut water use or we will
Utility to consider introducing restrictions
On-Prem27 Jul 2023 | 115
Our AI habit is making us less environmentally friendly, Google admits
Just 6% of the water it consumed last year was replenished, report says
On-Prem25 Jul 2023 | 14
Too many bytes and not enough bricks for datacenters
More than 3,000 needed to meet demand, and that won't be easy, says Aggreko
On-Prem25 Jul 2023 | 46
Microsoft’s Dublin DC power plant gets the, er, green light
Updated How does more natural gas consumption contribute to Redmond's eco dream?
On-Prem22 Jul 2023 | 51
Energy efficiency, staffing keep datacenter operators awake at night
Outages are declining, but when one does hit, it's expensive
Sysadmin Month19 Jul 2023 | 7
Why do cloud titans keep building datacenters in America's hottest city?
100 days over 100F and historic drought don't faze Microsoft or Google
Sysadmin Month15 Jul 2023 | 73
Akamai lofts cloud services over Chicago, Washington DC, Paris
'Premium' instances, bigger buckets available too
PaaS + IaaS13 Jul 2023 |
Datacenter industry sees demand growing, but so are energy costs
You gotta spend money to make money – and where are all the staff?
On-Prem11 Jul 2023 | 1
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