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Hyperscalers And Clouds Switch Up To High Bandwidth Ethernet
The hunger for more compute and storage capacity and for more bandwidth to shuffle and shuttle ever-increasing amounts of data is not insatiable among the hyperscalers and large cloud builders of the world. …
Hyperscalers And Clouds Switch Up To High Bandwidth Ethernet was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Why Aren’t There Software-Defined NUMA Servers Everywhere?
For decades, we have been using software to chop up servers with virtualization hypervisors to run many small workloads on a relatively big piece of iron. …
Why Aren’t There Software-Defined NUMA Servers Everywhere? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Broadcom Secures The Edge By Beefing Up The Network Core
A lot of compute is moving to the edge, and that means that networking and storage has to follow it. …
Broadcom Secures The Edge By Beefing Up The Network Core was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
IBM Power10 Shreds Ice Lake Xeons For Transaction Processing
Here is a simple algebraic equation that describes the relative computing oomph of two different CPU architectures over the past two decades: If Intel an X86 core is X, then an IBM Power core equals 2X. …
IBM Power10 Shreds Ice Lake Xeons For Transaction Processing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Bellwethers Of Enterprise IT Spending Fare Reasonably Well
If you want to figure out what is going on with spending on the corporate datacenters of the world, a good place to start is to examine the financial results of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Dell Technologies, which are still the two largest original equipment makers for servers in the world. …
The Bellwethers Of Enterprise IT Spending Fare Reasonably Well was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
GPU Engines Are So Strategic China Will Have To Use Its Own
China is the world’s second largest economy, it has the world’s largest population, and it is only a matter of time before has a world-class technology ecosystem spanning the smallest transistors to the largest hyperscale and HPC systems. …
GPU Engines Are So Strategic China Will Have To Use Its Own was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Meta’s Velox Means Database Performance Is Not Subject To Interpretation
A decade and a half ago, when Dennard scaling ran out of gas and many of us were starting to first think about what the end of Moore’s Law might look like should that day ever come, a bunch of us were kicking around what it might mean. …
Meta’s Velox Means Database Performance Is Not Subject To Interpretation was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Bringing AWS-Style DPU Offload To The VMware Base
Databases and datastores are by far the stickiest things in the datacenter. …
Bringing AWS-Style DPU Offload To The VMware Base was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Details Emerge On Nvidia’s “Grace” Arm CPU
Imagine, if you will, that Nvidia had launched its forthcoming “Grace” Arm server CPU three years ago instead of early next year. …
Details Emerge On Nvidia’s “Grace” Arm CPU was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
China Launches The Inevitable Indigenous GPU
It was absolutely inevitable that China would try to create its own GPU compute engines. …
China Launches The Inevitable Indigenous GPU was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Inside Tesla’s Innovative And Homegrown “Dojo” AI Supercomputer
How expensive and difficult does hyperscale-class AI training have to be for a maker of self-driving electric cars to take a side excursion to spend how many hundreds of millions of dollars to go off and create its own AI supercomputer from scratch? …
Inside Tesla’s Innovative And Homegrown “Dojo” AI Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
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.