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Samsung Shows Off CXL Server Memory Expander
People have been talking about CXL memory expansion for so long that it seems that it should be here already, but with the dearth of CPUs that can support PCI-Express 5.0 peripherals we have to be patient a little bit longer. …
Samsung Shows Off CXL Server Memory Expander was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Expanding CXL Memory Hierarchy Is Inevitable – And Good Enough
The Hot Chips 34 conference that is normally held at Stanford University is in full swing this week, and thanks to the coronavirus pandemic is being held entirely online. …
The Expanding CXL Memory Hierarchy Is Inevitable – And Good Enough was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Supply Chain Boa Constrictor Still Tight Around Cisco
There are times when Cisco Systems, which has a strong presence in datacenter switching, routing, and serving as well as a representative showing in storage and software, is a bellwether for IT market spending and transitions going on in the IT space. …
The Supply Chain Boa Constrictor Still Tight Around Cisco was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Nvidia Shows What Optically Linked GPU Systems Might Look Like
We have been talking about silicon photonics so long that we are, probably like many of you, frustrated that it already is not ubiquitous. …
Nvidia Shows What Optically Linked GPU Systems Might Look Like was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Like A Drumbeat, Broadcom Doubles Ethernet Bandwidth With “Tomahawk 5”
If there is anything that hyperscalers and cloud builders value more than anything else, it is regularity and predictability. …
Like A Drumbeat, Broadcom Doubles Ethernet Bandwidth With “Tomahawk 5” was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
HPE Slingshot Makes The GPUs Do Control Plane Compute
In modern system architecture, there is a lot of shifting pieces of systems software (particularly in the control plane) and often their workloads around between pieces of silicon to get better bang for the buck, to improve the overall security of the system, or both. …
HPE Slingshot Makes The GPUs Do Control Plane Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Programming The Network With Intel NEX Chief Nick McKeown
It would be very difficult indeed to find a better general manager for Intel’s newly constituted Network and Edge Group networking business than Nick McKeown, and Pat Gelsinger, the chief executive officer charged with turning around Intel’s foundries and its chip design business, is lucky that Intel was on an acquisitive bend in the wake of its rumored failed attempt to buy Mellanox and Nvidia’s successful purchase of Mellanox a few months later. …
Programming The Network With Intel NEX Chief Nick McKeown was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Nothing Cloudy About The Outlook For Infrastructure Spending
Here is a question for you: If hypervisors are going to eventually be offloaded to a DPU attached to the server node by a PCI-Express link, is the server considered bare metal or virtualized? …
Nothing Cloudy About The Outlook For Infrastructure Spending was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
CXL Borgs IBM’s OpenCAPI, Weaves Memory Fabrics With 3.0 Spec
System architects are often impatient about the future, especially when they can see something good coming down the pike. …
CXL Borgs IBM’s OpenCAPI, Weaves Memory Fabrics With 3.0 Spec was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Datacenter Props Up Nvidia As Gaming Sales Collapse
For the past four years, Nvidia’s datacenter business, which includes GPUs, networking, and servers, has been hot on the heels of its gaming GPU business. …
Datacenter Props Up Nvidia As Gaming Sales Collapse was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
E Pluribus, Network – Arista Networks, That Is
Software is not actually eating the world, but it is absolutely smashing out of appliance-style boxes and creating a massive, interconnected overlay atop aggregations of very shiny and powerful hardware. …
E Pluribus, Network – Arista Networks, That Is was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AMD Finally Reaps The Fortunes It Has Sown
Sometimes, competing for business means coming up with better products than your rivals. …
AMD Finally Reaps The Fortunes It Has Sown was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Money Keeps Raining Down From The AWS Cloud
Amazon Web Services is not the largest IT supplier in the world, but it is well on its way to attaining that position as it has notched up another quarter of growth in what is a tough economic climate. …
Money Keeps Raining Down From The AWS Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Intel Let The Chips Fall Where They Might
This day always comes. It is the nature of monopoly and hubris. …
Intel Let The Chips Fall Where They Might was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Strong-Armed Into HPC, Like It Or Not
If you are an HPC center in Europe, and particularly one that is funded by public funds, you are thinking about Arm-based CPUs in your supercomputers. …
Strong-Armed Into HPC, Like It Or Not was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
IBM Uses Power10 CPU As An I/O Switch
Back in early July, we covered the launch of IBM’s entry and midrange Power10 systems and mused about how Big Blue could use these systems to reinvigorate an HPC business rather than just satisfy the needs of the enterprise customers who run transaction processing systems and are looking to add AI inference to their applications through matrix math units on the Power10 chip. …
IBM Uses Power10 CPU As An I/O Switch was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Making AI Accessible To One And All
The democratization of any effective technology happens automatically by virtue of its success, even if the complexity it presents initially overwhelms some of the smartest people who wield it. …
Making AI Accessible To One And All was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
TSMC: Life’s A Beach, And Then You Make Dies
How much is a pinch of sand worth? Well, that all depends on what you do with it. …
TSMC: Life’s A Beach, And Then You Make Dies was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Big Blue Turns In A Solid Quarter For Systems
By all accounts, Big Blue had a pretty good quarter ending in June, with sales of its System z16 mainframes skyrocketing upwards as they do every couple of years at the beginning of a new cycle and sales of its high-end Power10 machines also getting some traction. …
Big Blue Turns In A Solid Quarter For Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
KAIST Shows Off DirectCXL Disaggregated Memory Prototype
The hyperscalers and cloud builders are not the only ones having fun with the CXL protocol and its ability to create tiered, disaggregated, and composable main memory for systems. …
KAIST Shows Off DirectCXL Disaggregated Memory Prototype was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.