Connect Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/category/connect/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:07:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.nextplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-PlatformStack-150x150.jpg Connect Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/category/connect/ 32 32 86113652 Ethernet Switching Still In Recession Thanks To AI Shift https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/06/ethernet-switching-still-in-recession-thanks-to-ai-shift/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/06/ethernet-switching-still-in-recession-thanks-to-ai-shift/#respond Mon, 06 Jan 2025 21:37:33 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145163 The original design manufacturers, or ODMs, as well as the portions of the original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs, that act like ODMs in that they create custom machines for hyperscalers and cloud builders and sell that at high volume and low margin, have long since taken over the server market. …

Ethernet Switching Still In Recession Thanks To AI Shift was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/06/ethernet-switching-still-in-recession-thanks-to-ai-shift/feed/ 0 145163 How Long Before Broadcom Makes More AI Compute Engines Than Nvidia? https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/13/how-long-before-broadcom-makes-more-ai-compute-engines-than-nvidia/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/13/how-long-before-broadcom-makes-more-ai-compute-engines-than-nvidia/#comments Fri, 13 Dec 2024 05:28:23 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145130 Chip maker and enterprise software player Broadcom announced its financial results for the final quarter of its fiscal 2024 today, which ended on November third, and all we kept thinking about as chief executive officer Hock Tan went over the numbers was the question in the title above. …

How Long Before Broadcom Makes More AI Compute Engines Than Nvidia? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/13/how-long-before-broadcom-makes-more-ai-compute-engines-than-nvidia/feed/ 4 145130 Nvidia, AMD, And Intel Help Stuff The Coffers At Ayar Labs https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/11/nvidia-amd-and-intel-help-stuff-the-coffers-at-ayar-labs/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/11/nvidia-amd-and-intel-help-stuff-the-coffers-at-ayar-labs/#comments Wed, 11 Dec 2024 21:07:05 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145125 Everybody wants to get rich in AI these days, and if you can’t do it by investing in the compute engine makers or the hyperscalers and cloud builders, then the next best thing to put your money into is probably some form of optical I/O. …

Nvidia, AMD, And Intel Help Stuff The Coffers At Ayar Labs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/11/nvidia-amd-and-intel-help-stuff-the-coffers-at-ayar-labs/feed/ 1 145125 Eviden Mainstreams BXI Interconnect Thanks To Ultra Ethernet And AI Boom https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/10/eviden-mainstreams-bxi-interconnect-thanks-to-ultra-ethernet-and-ai-boom/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/10/eviden-mainstreams-bxi-interconnect-thanks-to-ultra-ethernet-and-ai-boom/#comments Tue, 10 Dec 2024 20:04:13 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145117 Supercomputer interconnects have not been this exciting in a long time, but the confluence of forces have come together to put high speed, low latency networks at the forefront of systems architecture. …

Eviden Mainstreams BXI Interconnect Thanks To Ultra Ethernet And AI Boom was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/10/eviden-mainstreams-bxi-interconnect-thanks-to-ultra-ethernet-and-ai-boom/feed/ 7 145117 Marvell Pivots To AI Silicon, Looks Poised To Profit https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/04/marvell-pivots-to-ai-silicon-looks-poised-to-profit/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/04/marvell-pivots-to-ai-silicon-looks-poised-to-profit/#comments Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:39:21 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145091 It is hard to bet against the GenAI boom, and thus far it is also hard for anyone other than Nvidia to profit from it. …

Marvell Pivots To AI Silicon, Looks Poised To Profit was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/04/marvell-pivots-to-ai-silicon-looks-poised-to-profit/feed/ 1 145091 UEC Doesn’t Want To Kill InfiniBand, But It Wants Ethernet To Beat It https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/14/uec-doesnt-want-to-kill-infiniband-but-it-wants-ethernet-to-beat-it/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/14/uec-doesnt-want-to-kill-infiniband-but-it-wants-ethernet-to-beat-it/#comments Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:35:44 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144993 Welcome to the second part in our series of chats with J Metz, chair of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium. …

UEC Doesn’t Want To Kill InfiniBand, But It Wants Ethernet To Beat It was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/14/uec-doesnt-want-to-kill-infiniband-but-it-wants-ethernet-to-beat-it/feed/ 2 144993 The Collaboration That Will Drive Ethernet Into The HPC And AI Future https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/12/the-collaboration-that-will-drive-ethernet-into-the-hpc-and-ai-future/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/12/the-collaboration-that-will-drive-ethernet-into-the-hpc-and-ai-future/#comments Tue, 12 Nov 2024 18:24:39 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144987 Any time you can get a lot of companies with very technically adept and strongly opinionated people to work together on a problem, or a set of problems, then you know for a fact that there is a real problem. …

The Collaboration That Will Drive Ethernet Into The HPC And AI Future was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/12/the-collaboration-that-will-drive-ethernet-into-the-hpc-and-ai-future/feed/ 3 144987 The Back End AI Network Puts Pressure On The Front End https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/08/the-back-end-ai-network-puts-pressure-on-the-front-end/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/08/the-back-end-ai-network-puts-pressure-on-the-front-end/#comments Fri, 08 Nov 2024 20:17:07 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144976 For most of the history of high performance computing, a supercomputer was a freestanding, isolated machine that was designed to run some simulation or model and the only link it needed to the outside world was a relatively small one to show some visualization. …

The Back End AI Network Puts Pressure On The Front End was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/08/the-back-end-ai-network-puts-pressure-on-the-front-end/feed/ 1 144976 The Money Keeps Rolling In For Optical Interconnects https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/10/21/the-money-keeps-rolling-in-for-optical-interconnects/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/10/21/the-money-keeps-rolling-in-for-optical-interconnects/#comments Mon, 21 Oct 2024 19:31:35 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144867 With the bottlenecks between compute engines, their memories, and their networking adapters growing larger with each passing generation of AI machinery, there has never been a more pressing need to shift away from copper and towards optics in datacenter systems. …

The Money Keeps Rolling In For Optical Interconnects was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/10/21/the-money-keeps-rolling-in-for-optical-interconnects/feed/ 3 144867 Unlocking The Future of AI Infrastructure: Breaking Through Bottlenecks For Profitability And Performance https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/10/21/unlocking-the-future-of-ai-infrastructure-breaking-through-bottlenecks-for-profitability-and-performance/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/10/21/unlocking-the-future-of-ai-infrastructure-breaking-through-bottlenecks-for-profitability-and-performance/#respond Mon, 21 Oct 2024 13:40:01 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144866 As the last several years have shown, scaling up AI systems to train larger models with more parameters across more data is a very expensive proposition, and one that has made Nvidia fabulously rich. …

Unlocking The Future of AI Infrastructure: Breaking Through Bottlenecks For Profitability And Performance was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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