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AMD Needs To Complete The Datacenter Set With Switching
In the past several decades, data processing and storage systems could be architected from best of breed components, and the market could – and did – sustain multiple suppliers of competing technologies in each of the categories of compute, networking, and storage. …
AMD Needs To Complete The Datacenter Set With Switching was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Path Is Set For PCI-Express 7.0 In 2025
The ink is barely dry on the PCI-Express 6.0 specification, which was released after years of development in January 2022, we hardly have PCI-Express 5.0 peripherals in the market, and the PCI-SIG organization that controls the PCI-Express standard for peripheral interconnects already has us all coveting the bandwidth that will come later in the decade with PCI-Express 7.0 interconnects. …
The Path Is Set For PCI-Express 7.0 In 2025 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Lawrence Livermore’s “El Capitan” To Take AMD’s Instinct APU Mainstream
In March 2020, when Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced the exascale “El Capitan” supercomputer contract had been awarded to system builder Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which was also kicking in its “Rosetta” Slingshot 11 interconnect and which was tapping future CPU and GPU compute engines from AMD, the HPC center was very clear that it would be using off-the-shelf, commodity parts from AMD, not custom compute engines. …
Lawrence Livermore’s “El Capitan” To Take AMD’s Instinct APU Mainstream was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Bridging The Gap Between Open Source Database And Database Business
It is relatively easy to get a group of people that creates a new database management system or new data store. …
Bridging The Gap Between Open Source Database And Database Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Meta Platforms Hacks CXL Memory Tier Into Linux
We have been excited about the possibilities of adding tiers of memory to systems, particularly persistent memories that are less expensive than DRAM but offer similar-enough performance and functionality to be useful. …
Meta Platforms Hacks CXL Memory Tier Into Linux was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Atos Wins MareNostrum 5 Deal At Barcelona Supercomputing Center
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, which is steering the development and funding for pre-exascale and exascale supercomputing in the European Union, has had a busy week. …
Atos Wins MareNostrum 5 Deal At Barcelona Supercomputing Center was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Who Will Build Europe’s First Exascale Supercomputer – And With What, And Why?
Exascale supercomputing is just as important to Europe as it is to the United States and China, but each of these geopolitical regions on Earth has its own way of developing architectures, funding their development and production, and figuring out where the best HPC centers are to host such machines to maximize their effectiveness. …
Who Will Build Europe’s First Exascale Supercomputer – And With What, And Why? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Chip Roadmaps Unfold, Crisscrossing And Interconnecting, At AMD
After its acquisitions of ATI in 2006 and the maturation of its discrete GPUs with the Instinct line from the past few years and the acquisitions of Xilinx and Pensando here in 2022, AMD is not just a second source of X86 processors. …
Chip Roadmaps Unfold, Crisscrossing And Interconnecting, At AMD was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AMD Roadmaps Lead To Mountains Of Money
IT organizations, especially the key hyperscalers and cloud builders, don’t buy point products, they buy roadmaps. …
AMD Roadmaps Lead To Mountains Of Money was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Increasingly Graphic Nature Of Intel Datacenter Compute
When you get to the place where Intel is at in datacenter compute, you cannot dictate terms to customers. …
The Increasingly Graphic Nature Of Intel Datacenter Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Can MongoDB Build A Humongous, And Profitable, Database Business?
When you want to build a software business in the 21st century successfully, you have to borrow some ideas from the 20th century. …
Can MongoDB Build A Humongous, And Profitable, Database Business? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Long Term Profitability Of HPE Depends On GreenLake
It is the nature of the many businesses that Hewlett Packard Enterprise remains in, after spinning off printers, PCs, services, and software, that it still has many ups and downs and there is always one business that can pull down the others. …
The Long Term Profitability Of HPE Depends On GreenLake was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Final Frontier: Talking Exascale With Oak Ridge’s Jeff Nichols
Just ahead of the revelations about the feeds and speeds of the “Frontier” supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory concurrent with the International Supercomputing conference in Hamburg, Germany and the concurrent publishing of the summer Top500 rankings of supercomputers, we had a chat with Jeff Nichols, who has steered the creation of successive generations of supercomputers at Oak Ridge. …
The Final Frontier: Talking Exascale With Oak Ridge’s Jeff Nichols was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
To Cure Iron Anemia With SYCL, Intel Buys Codeplay
Intel doesn’t want to just create a rival to the CUDA programming model and library stack so it can better compete against Nvidia in the GPU compute market. …
To Cure Iron Anemia With SYCL, Intel Buys Codeplay was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Opening Up The Future “Venado” Grace-Hopper Supercomputer At Los Alamos
There are many interpretations of the word venado, which means deer or stag in Spanish, and this week it gets another one: A supercomputer based on future Nvidia CPU and GPU compute engines, and quite possibly if Los Alamos National Laboratory can convince Hewlett Packard Enterprise to support InfiniBand interconnects in its capability class “Shasta” Cray EX machines, Nvidia’s interconnect as well. …
Opening Up The Future “Venado” Grace-Hopper Supercomputer At Los Alamos was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Frontier: Step By Step, Over Decades, To Exascale
Any time you build anything with more than 60 million parts, it is going to be a headache. …
Frontier: Step By Step, Over Decades, To Exascale was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
At Long Last, HPC Officially Breaks The Exascale Barrier
Significant business and architectural changes can happen with 10X improvements, but the real milestones upon which we measure progress in computer science, whether it is for compute, storage, or networking, come at the 1,000X transitions. …
At Long Last, HPC Officially Breaks The Exascale Barrier was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Ampere Roadmap Has Four Future Arm Server Chips
This time last year, Arm server CPU startup Ampere Computing provided a roadmap running out through 2023 describing its future products, aimed at demonstrating its commitment to the idea of Arm server chips. …
Ampere Roadmap Has Four Future Arm Server Chips was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
With VMware, Broadcom Has A Real Enterprise Software Stack
Once Dell spun out VMware on Wall Street, it was only a matter of time before someone would put together enough money to acquire it. …
With VMware, Broadcom Has A Real Enterprise Software Stack was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Datacenter Becomes Nvidia’s Largest Business
Something that we have been waiting for a decade and a half to see has just happened: The datacenter is now the biggest business at Nvidia. …
Datacenter Becomes Nvidia’s Largest Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.