Comments for The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:44:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Comment on The Road Ahead For Datacenter Compute Engines: The CPUs by Mauro https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/30/the-road-ahead-for-datacenter-compute-engines-the-cpus/#comment-247075 Thu, 30 Jan 2025 19:53:33 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145239#comment-247075 Great content and analysis.
Thank you, really.
Greetings from Italy.

]]> Comment on Red Hat Woos VMware Shops With OpenShift Virtualization Engine by luis River https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/15/red-hat-woos-vmware-shops-with-openshift-virtualization-engine/#comment-247073 Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:37:37 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145187#comment-247073 Excuse me, another day pass, but Michael Dell its reasert mayor stallkeeper of the World !!

]]> Comment on The Road Ahead For Datacenter Compute Engines: The CPUs by Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/30/the-road-ahead-for-datacenter-compute-engines-the-cpus/#comment-247071 Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:18:51 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145239#comment-247071 In reply to John S.

For any per-core charged software, you need the strongest core you can get and the fewest number to lift the load. Hence, Power iron still exists.

]]> Comment on The Road Ahead For Datacenter Compute Engines: The CPUs by John S https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/30/the-road-ahead-for-datacenter-compute-engines-the-cpus/#comment-247061 Thu, 30 Jan 2025 15:06:22 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145239#comment-247061 So what about the Oracle tax for all these large core count systems? This was a big issue for us a couple of years ago, we explicitly bought four core systems to run ESXi and Oracle DBs on them just to keep down licensing costs. This is a fun roadmap, but it’s totally focused on the max-cores-at-all-cost end of the CPU families.

]]> Comment on NOAA Gets 3X More Oomph For Weather Forecasting; It Needs 3,300X by 11 Winner Tech https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/06/28/noaa-gets-3x-more-oomph-for-weather-forecasting-it-needs-3300x/#comment-247056 Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:35:02 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140831#comment-247056 It’s exciting to see NOAA getting a boost in resources for weather forecasting! However, the need for 3,300 times more oomph is a stark reminder of how much more we can improve. Let’s hope this increase leads to significant advancements in prediction accuracy and timely warnings for extreme weather events. Our communities depend on it!

]]> Comment on The Road Ahead For Datacenter Compute Engines: The CPUs by Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/30/the-road-ahead-for-datacenter-compute-engines-the-cpus/#comment-247046 Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:03:36 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145239#comment-247046 In reply to Thomas Hoberg.

Well, thank you.

]]> Comment on The Road Ahead For Datacenter Compute Engines: The CPUs by Thomas Hoberg https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/30/the-road-ahead-for-datacenter-compute-engines-the-cpus/#comment-247037 Thu, 30 Jan 2025 12:43:53 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145239#comment-247037 Nobody does these really useful things like you!

Really appreciate it!

]]> Comment on The Coming Age Of The Internet Of Agents by Slim Albert https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/28/the-coming-age-of-the-internet-of-agents/#comment-246999 Thu, 30 Jan 2025 02:33:07 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145227#comment-246999 That’s very interesting and novel — a good initative by Cisco’s Outshift in my view. It seems to match the 2025 vision and recommendations of HiPEAC (European High Performance — Edge And Cloud computing or Embedded Architecture and Compilation?) relative to “Orchestrating technologies for distributed agentic AI”, and, “Open protocols for distributed agentic AI systems” (pages 6 and 8 in: https://www.hipeac.net/vision/2025.pdf ). Developments to be followed in the coming years to be sure.

]]> Comment on How Did DeepSeek Train Its AI Model On A Lot Less – And Crippled – Hardware? by Scott ho https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/27/how-did-deepseek-train-its-ai-model-on-a-lot-less-and-crippled-hardware/#comment-246931 Tue, 28 Jan 2025 23:20:45 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145225#comment-246931 Commentators testing bias have shown that deep seek can generate information relating to subjects censored by China. (They tell the LLM to use substitute characters, by-passing internal censors.) This indicates that the LLM was trained outside the Chinese firewall. This opens the possibility of training outside China on higher spec hardware.

]]> Comment on How Did DeepSeek Train Its AI Model On A Lot Less – And Crippled – Hardware? by John W https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/27/how-did-deepseek-train-its-ai-model-on-a-lot-less-and-crippled-hardware/#comment-246921 Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:22:56 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145225#comment-246921 Rather like having a family with your sister, training one model on the output of another is how the insanity starts.

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