Author Archives: Timothy Prickett Morgan
Author Archives: Timothy Prickett Morgan
While the minimalist server processor and the microserver concept that was based upon it did not take over the datacenters of the world, there are still some workloads that can fit in modestly powered single socket CPUs just fine. …
The Cheapest Compute In The Intel Xeon Lineup was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
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.
While we are big fans of distributed computing systems here at The Next Platform, we never forget our heritage in big iron. …
This Is What The Most Powerful Server In The World Looks Like was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The system world would have been a simpler place if InfiniBand had fulfilled its original promise as a universal fabric interconnect for linking all manner of devices together within a system and across systems. …
The CXL Roadmap Opens Up The Memory Hierarchy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Enterprises large and small that depend on Hewlett Packard Enterprise to build their systems and certify them for an absolutely enormous amount of software and support them during a long life in the field should send Thank You notes to the venerable systems maker. …
The Venerable Tenacity Of System Supplier HPE was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Ever since Nutanix, the first virtualized server-storage smashup, dropped out of stealth in 2011, we have been watching with great interest to see if this hyperconverged infrastructure would take the world by storm. …
If Hyperconverged Storage Is So Good, Why Is It Not Pervasive And Profitable? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
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.
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.
It is pretty obvious to everyone who watches the IT market that Intel needs an architectural win that leads to a product win in datacenter compute. …
Intel’s “Ponte Vecchio” GPU Better Not Be A Bridge Too Far was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Everyone knows that machine learning inference is going to be a big deal for commercial applications in the years ahead, but no one is precisely sure how much inference is going to be needed. …
IBM Bets Big On Native Inference With Big Iron was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When the top brass at Intel say that the “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon SP CPUs and “Ponte Vecchio” Xe HPC GPUs that are coming out early next year represent the “largest architectural shift in over a decade,” they ain’t kidding. …
Intel Finally Gets Chiplet Religion With Server Chips was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is hard to imagine how anyone could run Nvidia better than it is being run right now. …
Maybe Nvidia Should Buy VMware Instead Of Intel? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Commissioned In just about any situation where you are making capital investments in equipment, you are worried about three things: performance, price/performance, and total cost of ownership. …
Why The MLPerf Benchmark Is Good For AI, And Good For You was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
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.
As everybody in the world now knows, there are downsides to just-in-time manufacturing during a global pandemic. …
Despite Supply Chain Woes, Arista Networks Does Record Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
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.
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.
We read a lot of market data here at The Next Platform, and we do our share of prognosticating and do even more riffing off the prognostications of others. …
Spending On Cloud Outposts Is Climbing The Hockey Stick was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED Sometimes, bad things turn into excellent opportunities that can utterly transform markets. …
AMD 3rd Gen Epyc CPUs Put Intel Xeon SPs On Ice In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
This is how a competitive chip market is supposed to look, and this is how a competitive chip maker recovers from faults, competes against a seemingly unassailable foe, and then rides up the revenue and income curves to be able to invest in the future and profit from the present. …
AMD Is Finally Trusted In The Datacenter Again was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.