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Designing for Density: AI Brings Denser Racks into Multi-Tenant Data Centers

By Rich Miller - November 2, 2020 2 Comments

Digital Realty's Building P in Ashburn is among the multi-tenant data center facilities housing different types of workloads. (Photo: Digital Realty)

The growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) poses challenges for data center design, as high-density racks of GPUs require low-latency access to massive datasets, including some in the cloud.

Tagged With: Colovore, Digital Realty, GPUs, high density data centers, NVIDIA

NVIDIA Unveils Beefed-Up AI Hardware for Data Centers

By Rich Miller - May 15, 2020 2 Comments

NVIDIA has unveiled a new generation of its GPU technology designed to further shake up the world of AI computing. Here’s a look at the DGX A100 system, and what it may mean for the data center.

Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, GPUs

Colovore Pre-Leases New Phase of Water-Cooled Data Center

By Rich Miller - September 13, 2017 Leave a Comment

High-density racks inside the Colovore data center in Santa Clara, Calif. (Photo: Rich Miller)

In a sign of strengthening demand for water-cooled racks, high-density hosting specialist Colovore has fully pre-leased a 2 megawatt expansion of its Santa Clara data center.

Tagged With: Colovore, GPUs, LinkedIn, ScaleMatrix

Supercomputing Moves to the Edge With AI-Guided Drones

By Rich Miller - September 7, 2017 Leave a Comment

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Avitas Systems’ drone inspection service is bringing AI data-crunching to remote locations with the NVIDIA DGX Station “supercomputer in a box.”

Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Drones, GPUs

New Server Hardware Boosts Data-Crunching for AI, Cloud

By Rich Miller - May 31, 2017 2 Comments

A four-rack "pod" of Google Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) and supporting hardware inside a Google data center. (Photo: Google)

The rise of specialized computing is bringing powerful new server hardware into the data center, a trend seen in new tech from Google, NVIDIA, AMD, ARM, Intel and Microsoft.

Tagged With: AMD, ARM, Artificial Intelligence, FPGAs, Google, GPUs, Intel, NVIDIA

AI Boom Boosts GPU Adoption, High-Density Cooling

By Rich Miller - April 12, 2017 Leave a Comment

A row of eight NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) packed into a Big Sur machine learning server at Facebook's data center in Prineville, Oregon. (Photo: Rich Miller)

The rise of artificial intelligence, and the GPU computing hardware that often supports it, is reshaping the data center industry’s relationship with power density.

Tagged With: Facebook, Google, GPUs, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA

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How to Simplify Distributed IT Management? Focus on the Tools to Improve Flexibility and Efficiency

How to Simplify Distributed IT Management? Focus on the Tools to Improve Flexibility and Efficiency Russell Senesac, Director of Data Center Strategy at Schneider Electric, explores how to address distributed IT management and the tools available today.

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Northern Virginia Data Center Market: The Focal Point for Cloud Growth

The Northern Virginia data center market is seeing a surge in supply and an even bigger surge in demand. Data Center Frontier explores trends, stats and future expectations for the No. 1 data center market in the country.

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