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Testing The Mettle Of The Top Supercomputing Iron On Earth
It’s fall, so that means it is the annual Super Computing conference that has been held in the United States by the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society since 1989. …
Testing The Mettle Of The Top Supercomputing Iron On Earth was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Why AMD “Genoa” Epyc Server CPUs Take The Heavyweight Title
The server CPU racket is not an easy one. It would be tough to find a more difficult business, and it gets harder to compete each year as computing becomes more and more focused at the hyperscalers and cloud builders, who demand the best for the least money. …
Why AMD “Genoa” Epyc Server CPUs Take The Heavyweight Title was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
One New Feature For Intel’s HPC Compute Engines: Contrition
It is very rare for any of the major semiconductor suppliers of the world to ever admit that things are going wrong, even when we all know that they have been. …
One New Feature For Intel’s HPC Compute Engines: Contrition was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Mashing Up CXL And OpenCAPI For Shared Disaggregated Memory
The industry is impatient for disaggregated and shared memory for a lot of reasons, and many system architects don’t want to wait until PCI-Express 6.0 or 7.0 transports are in the field and the CXL 3.0 and beyond protocols that ride on it to reach out to external memory have been tweaked to do proper sharing across servers. …
Mashing Up CXL And OpenCAPI For Shared Disaggregated Memory was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Economics And The Inevitability Of The DPU
The advent of the Data Processing Unit or the I/O Processing Unit, or whatever you want to call it, was driven as much by economics as it was by architectural necessity. …
Economics And The Inevitability Of The DPU was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Cutting To The Front Of The Server CPU Line
In case you haven’t figured it out yet, if you are not one of the hyperscalers or one of the biggest cloud builders, then you are a second class citizen, or maybe even third class, when it comes to the semiconductors that go into different part of the systems that run your organization. …
Cutting To The Front Of The Server CPU Line was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Hyperscalers And Clouds Lift Arista Networks Sky High
A massive buildout of infrastructure is happening within the datacenter walls of at least several of the hyperscalers and large clouds in the world if the financial results of Arista Networks, the upstart switch maker that has been taking on Cisco Systems in the datacenter with machines based on merchant silicon for more than a decade. …
Hyperscalers And Clouds Lift Arista Networks Sky High was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Mashing Up CXL And Gen-Z For Shared Disaggregated Memory
If you are impatient for not just memory pooling powered by the CXL protocol, but the much more difficult task of memory sharing by servers attached to giant blocks of external memory, you are not alone. …
Mashing Up CXL And Gen-Z For Shared Disaggregated Memory was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Pax Chipzilla Is Over, And Intel Can’t Hold Back The Barbarians
It is the nature of big tech companies with near monopolies to start looking a bit like Rome in its Golden Age – the Pax Romana that held from when Augustus Caesar became emperor in 27 BC until Marcus Aurelius died in 180 AD. …
The Pax Chipzilla Is Over, And Intel Can’t Hold Back The Barbarians was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Datacenter Is The Hot Spot In IT Spending In 2022
If you follow the IT spending forecasts of IDC and Gartner, as we do with each revision, what you will notice is that spending forecasts are constantly changing as economic conditions change. …
Datacenter Is The Hot Spot In IT Spending In 2022 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Odious Comparisons Of GPU Inference Performance And Value
While AI training dims the lights at hyperscalers and cloud builders and costs billions of dollars a year, in the long run, there will be a whole lot more aggregate processing done on AI inference than on AI training. …
The Odious Comparisons Of GPU Inference Performance And Value was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Ever-Reddening Revenue Streams Of Big Blue
Speaking in generalities across any aspect of history is always risky, but that is what the job of history is. …
The Ever-Reddening Revenue Streams Of Big Blue was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
How Do You Meet The Bandwidth Demands Of HPC And AI System Architectures?
Sponsored Post: Analyst firm Gartner believes AI will remain one of the top workloads driving infrastructure decisions through to 2023 as more organizations push pilot projects into the production stage. …
How Do You Meet The Bandwidth Demands Of HPC And AI System Architectures? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Iron That Will Drive AI At Meta Platforms
If there is one thing that is consistently true about HPC clusters for the past thirty years and for AI training systems for the past decade, it is as workloads grow, the network becomes increasingly important – and perhaps as important as packing as much flops in a node as physically and thermally makes sense. …
The Iron That Will Drive AI At Meta Platforms was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
IBM’s AI Accelerator: This Had Better Not Be Just A Science Project
Big Blue was one of the system designers that caught the accelerator bug early and declared rather emphatically that, over the long haul, all kinds of high performance computing would have some sort of acceleration. …
IBM’s AI Accelerator: This Had Better Not Be Just A Science Project was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Oracle Takes The Whole Nvidia AI Stack For Its Cloud
The top hyperscalers and clouds are rich enough to build out infrastructure on a global scale and create just about any kind of platform they feel like. …
Oracle Takes The Whole Nvidia AI Stack For Its Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Nutanix For Sale, And The Only Buyer Might Be A Big Cloud
As you might expect, we believe in the strength, resilience, and utility of platforms and we carefully watch as companies emerge and try to commercialize them. …
Nutanix For Sale, And The Only Buyer Might Be A Big Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Getting Ahead Of The Game: Inspur’s Machine For Digital Twins And Immersive Experiences
Commissioned: Not everybody wants to be Iron Man. But there isn’t an artist or engineer around that doesn’t envy the 3D, immersive design experience that Tony Stark used to invent new equipment and analyze his existing gadgets in the Avenger movies. …
Getting Ahead Of The Game: Inspur’s Machine For Digital Twins And Immersive Experiences was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
TSMC: The Leading Indicator For An Entire Industry
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co is the world’s largest and most advanced producer of semiconductors, and is therefore a “bellwether” for the semiconductor industry and, in turn therefore, a leading indicator of the entire IT sector that depends so heavily on semiconductors as its key driver. …
TSMC: The Leading Indicator For An Entire Industry was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
After Long Last, A Commercial-Grade SONiC Network Operating System
It is perplexing to us that the world’s largest distributor of client and server operating systems and also the creator of the Linux-based, open source SONiC network operating system – that would be Microsoft with its Windows and Windows Server franchises – did not see the benefit or the need to commercialize SONiC and lead the open networking revolution. …
After Long Last, A Commercial-Grade SONiC Network Operating System was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.