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Is The Shift To Single Socket Servers Starting?

One of the key strategic moves that AMD made when it architected its comeback in the datacenter was to beef up the compute, I/O, and memory on a single server socket while at the same time making that socket out of chiplets that were significantly cheaper to manufacture and integrate than a monolithic chip was to put into the same socket. …

Is The Shift To Single Socket Servers Starting? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The Edge Is Just A Massive, Geographically Distributed Cluster

Sponsored If you have a hundred or a thousand machines that you want to work in concert to run a simulation or a model or a machine learning training workload that cannot physically be done by any one single machine, you build a distributed systems cluster and there are all kinds of known tools to manage the underlying server nodes, to create the overarching computing environment, and to then carve it up into pieces to push work through it. …

The Edge Is Just A Massive, Geographically Distributed Cluster was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Intel’s Best DPU Will Be Commercially Available — Someday

UPDATE: One of the reasons why Intel spent $16.7 billion to acquire FPGA maker Altera six years ago was because it was convinced that its onload model — where big parts of the storage and networking stack were running on CPUs — was going to go out of favor and that companies would want to offload this work to network interface cards with lots of their own much cheaper and much more energy efficient processing. …

Intel’s Best DPU Will Be Commercially Available — Someday was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The Huge Payoff Of Extreme Co-Design In Molecular Dynamics

When money is really no object and the budget negotiations involve taking a small slice of your personal net worth of $7.5 billion out of one pocket and putting it into another, and you have the technical chops to understand the complexities of molecular dynamics and have a personal mission to cure disease, then you can build any damned supercomputer you want. …

The Huge Payoff Of Extreme Co-Design In Molecular Dynamics was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The Challenge – And Opportunity – Of Being A Niche AI Cloud

In this era of hyperscaler and cloud builder titans, their seven of whom account for about half of the IT infrastructure bought in the world, it is important to remember the importance of niches and the vital role that other makers of systems, other sellers of systems, and other renters of systems all play in the IT ecosystem. …

The Challenge – And Opportunity – Of Being A Niche AI Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Marvell Adds Hyperscale Ethernet With Innovium Acquisition

Cash used to be king, and now market capitalization is. That’s one of the reasons that the biggest players in the semiconductor arena are snapping up competitors, startups, and suppliers in adjacent chip markets at an increasing pace and with very large bags of “money.” …

Marvell Adds Hyperscale Ethernet With Innovium Acquisition was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Ampere Computing Buys An AI Inference Performance Leap

Machine learning inference models have been running on X86 server processors from the very beginning of the latest – and by far the most successful – AI revolution, and the techies that know both hardware and software down to the minutest detail at the hyperscalers, cloud builders, and semiconductor manufacturers have been able to tune the software, jack the hardware, and retune for more than a decade. …

Ampere Computing Buys An AI Inference Performance Leap was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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