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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is not just going all-in on AI, but on AI at incredible scale. This week, the company announced what it calls the largest AI supercomputer in the cloud, OCI Zettascale10. The multi-gigawatt architecture links hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs to deliver what OCI calls “unprecedented” performance. The supercomputer will serve as the backbone for the ambitious, …

Wireless connectivity is standard across corporate campuses, in warehouses and factories, and even in remote locations. But what about wireless power? Can we get rid of all cables? Many of us are already using wireless chargers for our cellphones and other devices. But induction chargers aren’t a complete solution since they require very close proximity between the device and the charging station…

The Guipuzcoan city of San Sebastián is now operating the IBM Quantum System Two quantum computer, the most advanced of its kind that IBM has developed commercially to date. This is the first installation of its kind in Europe and the second in the world—the first was installed in the Japanese city of Kobe before the summer—not counting the equipment IBM has in its own quantum labs in New York. T…

The Basque city of San Sebastián is beginning to play an interesting leading role in the radically different field of quantum technology . The official launch of IBM Quantum System Two, the most advanced quantum computer of the ‘Blue Giant,’ happened in Donostia-San Sebastián. This infrastructure, which the technology company has implemented on the main campus of the Ikerbasque scientific foundat…

Nvidia’s “personal AI supercomputer,” the DGX Spark, may run fast but it’s been slow getting here. It finally went on sale on Oct. 15, five months later than the company initially promised, and early units are hard to find: Nvidia’s online shop was out of stock on launch day, and retailers have few units in store. When Nvidia unveiled the machine, then known as Project DIGITS , at the CES 2025 el…

As AI networking technology blossoms, yet another group has formed to make sure Ethernet can handle the stress. AMD, Arista, ARM, Broadcom, Cisco, HPE Networking, Marvell, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI and Oracle have joined the new Ethernet for Scale-Up Networking (ESUN) initiative, which promises to advance the networking technology to handle scale-up connectivity across accelerated AI infras…

Network infrastructure has become a performance constraint in large-scale AI training, and Broadcom has spent the past three years building an AI networking portfolio that aims to solve this problem. Over the last several months, the company rolled out Tomahawk 6 switches for scale-out networking and Jericho 4 for inter-data-center connectivity. Today, Broadcom is taking the next step with Thor U…

OpenAI has partnered with Broadcom to co-develop and deploy its first in-house AI processors. The move could reshape data center networking dynamics and chip supply strategies as the ChatGPT maker races to secure more computing power for its rapidly growing AI workloads. The multi-year collaboration will deploy 10 gigawatts of OpenAI-designed accelerators and Broadcom’s Ethernet-based networking …

Nvidia will be front-and-center at this week’s Global Summit for members of the Open Compute Project (OCP), emphasizing its “grid-to-chip” philosophy. The company is making announcements on several fronts, including the debut of Vera Rubin MGX, its next-gen architecture fusing CPUs and GPUs, and Spectrum-XGS Ethernet, a networking fabric designed for “giga-scale” AI factories. It’s all part of a …

To find a brief definition of the networking term you are looking for user your browser’s “Find” feature then follow links to a fuller explanation. AI data center AI data centers are designed, built, and optimized to meet the demands of workloads created by the rise of artificial intelligence. AI data centers go beyond the capabilities of traditional data centers and feature high-density compute …

Intel has revealed more details of its next-generation Xeon 6+ E-core CPU family, codenamed “Clearwater Forest,” with a focus on power and performance efficiency. Intel has split its Xeon product line into two categories: the P line of high-performance cores and the E line for Efficiency for tasks and processes that are less performance sensitive. Intel released its first E-Core- only Xeon, coden…

The problem How many times in a year do we get complaints from our end users that the network is slow…and our monitoring tool has not yet alerted us to anything critical? Sometimes Zoom lags, and other times Jira takes a lifetime to load — and you don’t know whether it’s a circuit issue or a Wi-Fi issue or a DNS resolution problem, each of which is maintained by different teams and different tool…

Dr. Efim Zelmanov , who earned the prestigious Fields Medal – a distinction equivalent to the Nobel Prize but in the discipline of mathematics – is one of the major contributors to the field of cryptography, a science that is the basis of cybersecurity and other lines of work related to data analysis and artificial intelligence. Zelmanov is a mathematician, expert in the field of non-associative …

Cisco has unwrapped a high-end, 51.2 Tbps router and chip that it says will go a long way toward supporting the distributed AI workloads of today and in the future. Aimed at hyperscalers and large data center operators, the Cisco 8223 routing system is based on a new iteration of the company’s Silicon One portfolio: the P200 programmable, deep buffer chip. The system supports Octal Small Form-Fac…

I recently attended two stops on Zscaler’s Zenith Live APJ Tour : Melbourne, Australia and Tokyo, Japan. I travel to several US events, including Zenith Live Vegas, but I find it useful to understand technology trends in other parts of the world. The Asia Pacific and Japan region is particularly interesting because of its cultural and geographic diversity and the impact of that on technology depl…