Tag: datacenter
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The Register: Microsoft turning away AI training workloads – inferencing makes better money
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/31/microsoft_q1_fy_2025/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft turning away AI training workloads – inferencing makes better money Feedly Summary: Azure’s acceleration continues, but so do costs Microsoft has explained that its method of funding the tens of billions it’s spending on new datacenters and AI infrastructure is to shun customers who want to rent…
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Cloud Blog: Powerful infrastructure innovations for your AI-first future
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/trillium-sixth-generation-tpu-is-in-preview/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Powerful infrastructure innovations for your AI-first future Feedly Summary: The rise of generative AI has ushered in an era of unprecedented innovation, demanding increasingly complex and more powerful AI models. These advanced models necessitate high-performance infrastructure capable of efficiently scaling AI training, tuning, and inferencing workloads while optimizing…
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Cloud Blog: Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google data-center networking evolution
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/speed-scale-reliability-25-years-of-data-center-networking/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google data-center networking evolution Feedly Summary: Rome wasn’t built in a day, and neither was Google’s network. But 25 years in, we’ve built out network infrastructure with scale and technical sophistication that’s nothing short of remarkable. It’s all the more impressive…
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The Register: AMD teases its GPU biz ‘approaching the scale’ of CPU operations
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/30/amd_q3_2024/ Source: The Register Title: AMD teases its GPU biz ‘approaching the scale’ of CPU operations Feedly Summary: Q3 profits jump 191 percent from last quarter on revenues of $6.2 billion, helped by accelerated interest in Instinct AMD continued to ride a wave of demand for its Instinct MI300X AI accelerators – its…
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The Register: Datacenter developer says power issues holding up new builds
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/29/datacenter_developer_says_power_issues/ Source: The Register Title: Datacenter developer says power issues holding up new builds Feedly Summary: ‘The single biggest constraint is access,’ says exec looking to invest ‘hundreds of millions’ One of the UK’s major commercial property developers says it would be pumping investment into new datacenters if it could just secure the…
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The Register: European datacenter energy consumption set to triple by end of decade
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/25/eu_dc_power/ Source: The Register Title: European datacenter energy consumption set to triple by end of decade Feedly Summary: McKinsey warns an additional 25GW of mostly green energy will be needed Datacenter power consumption across Europe could roughly triple by the end of the decade, driven by mass adoption of everyone’s favorite tech trend:…
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The Register: Huawei releases data detailing serverless secrets
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/24/huawei_serverless_cold_start_research/ Source: The Register Title: Huawei releases data detailing serverless secrets Feedly Summary: Reveals why your functions start slowly on its cloud and maybe others too Huawei Cloud has released a huge trove of data describing the performance of its serverless services in the hope that other hyperscalers use it to improve their…
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The Register: RISC-V reaches milestone with RVA23 profile ratification
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/23/rva23_profile_ratified/ Source: The Register Title: RISC-V reaches milestone with RVA23 profile ratification Feedly Summary: No longer an underdog – it now challenges Arm and x86 Comment The ratification of the RVA23 profile for RISC-V marks a monumental moment for the architecture, and anyone who’s been following RISC-V knows that this isn’t just a…
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The Register: Fujitsu delivers GPU optimization tech it touts as a server-saver
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/23/fujitsu_gpu_middleware/ Source: The Register Title: Fujitsu delivers GPU optimization tech it touts as a server-saver Feedly Summary: Middleware aimed at softening the shortage of AI accelerators Fujitsu has started selling middleware that optimizes the use of GPUs, so that those lucky enough to own the scarce accelerators can be sure they’re always well-used.……
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Cloud Blog: We tested Intel’s AMX CPU accelerator for AI. Here’s what we learned
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/we-tested-intels-amx-cpu-accelerator-for-ai-heres-what-we-learned/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: We tested Intel’s AMX CPU accelerator for AI. Here’s what we learned Feedly Summary: At Google Cloud, we believe that cloud computing will increasingly shift to private, encrypted services where users can be confident that their software and data are not being exposed to unauthorized actors. In support…