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Aiming At Hyperscalers And Edge, Nvidia Cuts Down To The A2 Accelerator
The world would be a simpler place for all processing engine makers if they just had to make one device to cover all use cases, thus maximizing volumes and minimizing per unit costs. …
Aiming At Hyperscalers And Edge, Nvidia Cuts Down To The A2 Accelerator was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Xilinx Tunes Up FPGAs For HPC, Graph Analytics
High performance computing hardware is really a software game, and the software we are referring to is at a very low level where deep expertise in libraries and solvers can make the difference between a capable device performing up to its specifications and, well, not so much. …
Xilinx Tunes Up FPGAs For HPC, Graph Analytics was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Nvidia CEO On Competition, Software, And The Omniverse
All of the great technologists live in the future and then they bring it back to us with the help of countless engineers who derive the specifications from their vision and make ideas into reality and, ultimately, into money to repeat the process again. …
Nvidia CEO On Competition, Software, And The Omniverse was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
HPE Wins Another European HPC Center With Cray EX Plus AMD Compute
Per aspera, ad astra, an old Latin adage that means “through striving, to the stars,” is the root of the name for a hybrid HPC and AI supercomputer that the Grand Équipment National de Calcul Intensif (GENCI), working in conjunction with the Centre Informatique National de l’Enseignement Supérieur (CINES), one of three national HPC centers in France, will be building next year to bring a factor of 20X more compute power to bear on scientific applications. …
HPE Wins Another European HPC Center With Cray EX Plus AMD Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Top500 Supercomputers: Hungry For The Exascale Feast
Let’s just cut right to the chase scene. The latest Top500 ranking of supercomputers, announced today at the SC21 supercomputing conference being held in St Louis, needed the excitement of an actual 1 exaflops sustained performance machine running the High Performance Linpack benchmark at 64-bit precision. …
Top500 Supercomputers: Hungry For The Exascale Feast was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AMD Gets Inside Facebook’s Latest – And Most Powerful – Microserver
Sometimes, you do put new wine in old bottles. This is what it looks like Meta – well, really its Facebook social network group – is doing as it adds a microserver node based on a custom AMD “Milan” Epyc 7003 processor to its datacenter infrastructure. …
AMD Gets Inside Facebook’s Latest – And Most Powerful – Microserver was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Getting Meta: Abstracting And Multisourcing The Network Like An FBOSS
If you want to build the world’s largest social network, with 2.9 billion users, and the massive PHP stack that makes it into an application, you need a lot of infrastructure and you need it to arrive predictably. …
Getting Meta: Abstracting And Multisourcing The Network Like An FBOSS was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AMD Deepens Its Already Broad Epyc Server Chip Roadmap
The hyperscalers, cloud builders, HPC centers, and OEM server manufacturers of the world who build servers for everyone else all want, more than anything else, competition between component suppliers and a regular, predictable, almost boring cadence of new component introductions. …
AMD Deepens Its Already Broad Epyc Server Chip Roadmap was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The AMD “Aldebaran” GPU That Won Exascale
If you want to know how and why AMD motors have been chosen for so many of the pre-exascale and exascale HPC and AI systems, despite the dominance of Intel in CPUs and the dominance of Nvidia in GPUs, you need look no further for an answer than the new “Aldebaran” Instinct MI200 GPU accelerator from Nvidia and its Infinity Fabric 3.0 coherent interconnect that is being also added to selected Epyc CPUs from Nvidia. …
The AMD “Aldebaran” GPU That Won Exascale was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Vertical L3 Cache Raises The AMD Server Performance Bar
Necessity is the mother of invention, and advances in chip packaging are catching up to those in transistor design when it comes to working in three dimensions instead of the much more limited two. …
Vertical L3 Cache Raises The AMD Server Performance Bar was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Semiconductor Supply Woes Barely Slow Arista Networks
Anyone building any kind of system that employs any kind of chippery – which means any device today excepting maybe an old-school hammer or screwdriver – is suffering from the vicissitudes and capriciousness of semiconductor supplies. …
Semiconductor Supply Woes Barely Slow Arista Networks was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Microcosm Of Global HPC In The Lone Star State
The HPC community spends a lot of time tracking the development of and production use of the flagship machines deployed by the major national and academic labs of the world. …
The Microcosm Of Global HPC In The Lone Star State was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Amazon Is The Flywheel, AWS Is The Cash Register
The coronavirus pandemic giveth to Amazon retail business and its Amazon Web Services cloud business, and the pandemic taketh away from the Amazon retail business. …
Amazon Is The Flywheel, AWS Is The Cash Register was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Accelerated Path To Petabyte-Scale Graph Databases
Database acceleration using specialized co-processors is nothing new. Just to give a few examples, data warehouses running on the Netezza platform, owned by IBM for more than a decade now, uses a custom and parallelized PostgreSQL database matched to FPGA acceleration for database and storage routines. …
The Accelerated Path To Petabyte-Scale Graph Databases was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Intel Aims For Zettaflops By 2027, Pushes Aurora Above 2 Exaflops
Just because Intel is no longer interested in being a prime contractor on the largest supercomputing deals in the United States and Europe – China and Japan are drawing their own roadmaps and building their own architectures – does not mean that Intel does not have aspirations in HPC and AI supercomputing. …
Intel Aims For Zettaflops By 2027, Pushes Aurora Above 2 Exaflops was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AMD Datacenter Sales Break Through $1 Billion In Q3
Here is a moment that Lisa Su, the chief executive officer who has lead the team that brought AMD back into the datacenter with the vigor the market needs, has been waiting six years for. …
AMD Datacenter Sales Break Through $1 Billion In Q3 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Intel Back To Playing The Long Game, Not The Wrong Game
The supply chain is holding back the server business, and not just in the way you are thinking about it. …
Intel Back To Playing The Long Game, Not The Wrong Game was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Prime Contracting No Longer One Of Intel’s HPC Aspirations
Intel has spent the past nine months reorganizing itself in the wake of Pat Gelsinger becoming its chief executive officer in January, including new groups and divisions and new managers for them that was revealed in June. …
Prime Contracting No Longer One Of Intel’s HPC Aspirations was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Alibaba Rumored To Enter The Arm Server Chip Race
The chip cold war between China and the United States continues to heat up like a processor with a heat sink that it is a little too small. …
Alibaba Rumored To Enter The Arm Server Chip Race was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Networking A Way Into The Datacenter From The Outside In
Every startup has to be both flexible and focused, and it is tough to balance the two. …
Networking A Way Into The Datacenter From The Outside In was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.