Paul Teich, Author at The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/author/paul-teich/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Sat, 15 Feb 2020 05:01:39 +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 Paul Teich, Author at The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/author/paul-teich/ 32 32 86113652 Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part Three https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/02/10/vertical-integration-is-eating-the-datacenter-part-three/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/02/10/vertical-integration-is-eating-the-datacenter-part-three/#respond Mon, 10 Feb 2020 18:21:59 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=98184 We have been making the case in this three part series that vertical integration is becoming more popular in modern datacenters. …

Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part Three was written by Paul Teich at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/02/10/vertical-integration-is-eating-the-datacenter-part-three/feed/ 0 98184 Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part Two https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/02/03/vertical-integration-is-eating-the-datacenter-part-two/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/02/03/vertical-integration-is-eating-the-datacenter-part-two/#comments Mon, 03 Feb 2020 13:35:18 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=92584 It is funny to think of the modern datacenter as an appliance, like an iPhone, but in the cases of the hyperscalers and the very largest public cloud builders, this is more or less what they are building. …

Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part Two was written by Paul Teich at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/02/03/vertical-integration-is-eating-the-datacenter-part-two/feed/ 5 92584 Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part One https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/01/13/vertical-integration-is-eating-the-datacenter-part-one/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/01/13/vertical-integration-is-eating-the-datacenter-part-one/#respond Mon, 13 Jan 2020 13:33:56 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=76697 Best of breed and vertical integration are two opposing forces that have been part of the datacenter since mainframes first fired up six decades ago in rooms with glass windows in them so companies could show off their technical prowess and financial might. …

Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part One was written by Paul Teich at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/01/13/vertical-integration-is-eating-the-datacenter-part-one/feed/ 0 76697 IBM Project Debater Speaks To The Future Of AI https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/03/27/ibm-project-debater-speaks-to-the-future-of-ai/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/03/27/ibm-project-debater-speaks-to-the-future-of-ai/#respond Wed, 27 Mar 2019 14:16:49 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=39614 The conversational AI created by IBM called Project Debater is designed to have a formal debate with a person. …

IBM Project Debater Speaks To The Future Of AI was written by Paul Teich at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/03/27/ibm-project-debater-speaks-to-the-future-of-ai/feed/ 0 39614 Modernizing The Turing Test For 21st Century AI https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/03/18/modernizing-the-turing-test-for-21st-century-ai/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/03/18/modernizing-the-turing-test-for-21st-century-ai/#respond Mon, 18 Mar 2019 17:03:29 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=39546 To understand how far natural language processing (NLP) has progressed in the past decade and how fast it is evolving now, we need to update Alan Turing’s thought experiment on how to test an AI for conversational intelligence to a 21st Century context and methodology. …

Modernizing The Turing Test For 21st Century AI was written by Paul Teich at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/03/18/modernizing-the-turing-test-for-21st-century-ai/feed/ 0 39546 Containers Killed The Virtual Machine Star https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/01/09/containers-killed-the-virtual-machine-star/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/01/09/containers-killed-the-virtual-machine-star/#comments Wed, 09 Jan 2019 14:00:19 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=39032 We predict new enterprise application development will pass a tipping point in 2019 and shift away from legacy virtual machines (VMs) and strongly toward containers and Kubernetes container orchestration. …

Containers Killed The Virtual Machine Star was written by Paul Teich at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/01/09/containers-killed-the-virtual-machine-star/feed/ 3 39032 The Leading Edge Of Air-Cooled Servers Leads To The Edge https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/12/04/the-leading-edge-of-air-cooled-servers-leads-to-the-edge/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/12/04/the-leading-edge-of-air-cooled-servers-leads-to-the-edge/#comments Tue, 04 Dec 2018 21:40:06 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=38856 What if a hyperscale rack designer decided not to locally optimize legacy form factors for thermal management, but instead to start over and design a rack based on optimizing thermal efficiency? …

The Leading Edge Of Air-Cooled Servers Leads To The Edge was written by Paul Teich at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/12/04/the-leading-edge-of-air-cooled-servers-leads-to-the-edge/feed/ 2 38856 Designing Custom Chips In-House Is The New Normal https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/08/08/designing-custom-chips-in-house-for-specific-tasks-is-the-new-normal/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/08/08/designing-custom-chips-in-house-for-specific-tasks-is-the-new-normal/#comments Wed, 08 Aug 2018 13:47:03 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=38103 Cloud giants Amazon, Alibaba, Baidu, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft are now designing their own AI accelerator chips. …

Designing Custom Chips In-House Is The New Normal was written by Paul Teich at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/08/08/designing-custom-chips-in-house-for-specific-tasks-is-the-new-normal/feed/ 7 38103 Tearing Apart Google’s TPU 3.0 AI Coprocessor https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/05/10/tearing-apart-googles-tpu-3-0-ai-coprocessor/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/05/10/tearing-apart-googles-tpu-3-0-ai-coprocessor/#comments Thu, 10 May 2018 18:21:14 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=36741 Google did its best to impress this week at its annual IO conference. …

Tearing Apart Google’s TPU 3.0 AI Coprocessor was written by Paul Teich at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/05/10/tearing-apart-googles-tpu-3-0-ai-coprocessor/feed/ 19 37551 Building Bigger, Faster GPU Clusters Using NVSwitches https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/04/13/building-bigger-faster-gpu-clusters-using-nvswitches/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/04/13/building-bigger-faster-gpu-clusters-using-nvswitches/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2018 14:08:50 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=36521 Nvidia launched its second-generation DGX system in March. In order to build the 2 petaflops half-precision DGX-2, Nvidia had to first design and build a new NVLink 2.0 switch chip, named NVSwitch. …

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