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Arm’s v9 Architecture Explains Why Nvidia Needs To Buy It
Many of us have been wracking our brains why Nvidia would spend a fortune – a whopping $40 billion – to acquire Arm Holdings, a chip architecture licensing company that generates on the order of $2 billion in sales – since the deal was rumored back in July 2020. …
Arm’s v9 Architecture Explains Why Nvidia Needs To Buy It was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Deep Dive Into AMD’s “Milan” Epyc 7003 Architecture
The “Milan” Epyc 7003 processors, the third generation of AMD’s revitalized server CPUs, is now in the field, and we await the entry of the “Ice Lake” Xeon SPs from Intel for the next jousting match in the datacenter to begin. …
Deep Dive Into AMD’s “Milan” Epyc 7003 Architecture was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Intel Decides To Engineer Its Fab-Filled Future After All
Newly anointed Intel chief executive officer Pat Gelsinger held the coming out party for his strategy to get the world’s largest chip manufacturer and designer back on track, called “Intel Unleashed: Engineering The Future,” on Tuesday after the market closed. …
Intel Decides To Engineer Its Fab-Filled Future After All was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Server Sales Boom In China, Bleed Air Elsewhere
The server market is a multi-cylinder engine, with eight major hyperscalers and cloud builders all doing their thing almost independently of each other and of the economic conditions at large and the rest of the market being more subject to the waxing and waning of the economic tides. …
Server Sales Boom In China, Bleed Air Elsewhere was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Google Says The SOC Is The New Motherboard
For two decades now, Google has demonstrated perhaps more than any other company that the datacenter is the new computer, what the search engine giant called a “warehouse-scale machine” way back in 2009 with a paper written by Urs Hölzle, who was and still is senior vice president for Technical Infrastructure at Google, and Luiz André Barroso, who is vice president of engineering for the core products at Google and who was a researcher at Digital Equipment and Compaq before that. …
Google Says The SOC Is The New Motherboard was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
3D XPoint Memory At The Crossroads
Like many system architects the world over, we had high hopes for the 3D XPoint variant of phase change memory (PCM) when it launched with much fanfare back in July 2015 after being developed jointly by Intel and Micron Technology for many, many years. …
3D XPoint Memory At The Crossroads was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Can Graviton Win A Three-Way Compute Race At AWS?
One of the main tenets of the hyperscalers and cloud builders is that they buy what they can and they only build what they must. …
Can Graviton Win A Three-Way Compute Race At AWS? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Third Time Charm Of AMD’s Milan Epyc Processors
With every passing year, as AMD first talked about its plans to re-enter the server processor arena and give Intel some real, much needed, and very direct competition and then delivered again and again on its processor roadmap, it has gotten easier and easier to justify spending at least some of the server CPU budget with Intel’s archrival in the X86 computing arena. …
The Third Time Charm Of AMD’s Milan Epyc Processors was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Cisco Fights The Merchant Network Chip Makers On Their Own Turf
There is nothing wrong with buying a compute, storage, or networking appliance where the ASICs and software both come from the same supplier. …
Cisco Fights The Merchant Network Chip Makers On Their Own Turf was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Nitty Gritty Of The Sunway Exascale System Network And Storage
We took a look recently at the compute engines at the heart of the future – and as yet unnanmed – Sunway exascale system that will be installed at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, China. …
The Nitty Gritty Of The Sunway Exascale System Network And Storage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Livermore Converges A Slew Of New Ideas For Exascale Storage
There are a lot of new technologies that are available now or are going to be available shortly that have the potential to radically change the compute, memory, and storage hierarchies in systems. …
Livermore Converges A Slew Of New Ideas For Exascale Storage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Ladies And Gentlemen, Start Your Compute Engines
We have a bad case of the silicon shakes and a worsening deficiency in iron here at The Next Platform, but the good news is that new CPU processors from AMD and Intel are imminent, and more processors are expected later this year from IBM and Ampere Computing, too. …
Ladies And Gentlemen, Start Your Compute Engines was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Future Of Infrastructure Is Fluid
Flexibility is a kind of strength. It is just more subtle than brute force. …
The Future Of Infrastructure Is Fluid was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Changing Of The Guard For HPC And Big Iron At HPE
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has been building a mainstream and grassroots server business aimed at large enterprises, HPC centers, and academic and government institutions for two decades. …
Changing Of The Guard For HPC And Big Iron At HPE was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Power To The Kubernetes People
Big Blue shelled out an incredible $34 billion to buy open source infrastructure software juggernaut Red Hat, and it is determined not to just tend and grow that business, which brought in around $3.85 billion in sales in 2019 as the deal closed and probably somewhere around $4.6 billion in 2020. …
Power To The Kubernetes People was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Taking A Superhybrid Approach To HPC/AI Convergence
AMD has been on such a run with its future server CPUs and server GPUs in the supercomputer market, taking down big deals for big machines coming later this year and out into 2023, that we might forget sometimes that there are many more deals to be done and that neither Intel nor Nvidia are inactive when it comes to trying to get their compute engines into upper echelon machines. …
Taking A Superhybrid Approach To HPC/AI Convergence was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Datacenter Is Just A Big Game For Nvidia
We have a saying around here at The Next Platform, and it is this: Money is not the point of the game. …
The Datacenter Is Just A Big Game For Nvidia was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Giving SmartNICs Bigger FPGA And CPU Brains
The lines between a server, a SmartNIC, and a Data Processing Unit, or DPU, are getting fuzzier, and the good news is that definitions do not matter nearly as much as use cases. …
Giving SmartNICs Bigger FPGA And CPU Brains was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Arista Networks Brings The Battle For Routing To Cisco
It’s a great thing when an upstart supplier of hardware or software lands one of the hyperscalers or large public cloud builders on Earth as a customer. …
Arista Networks Brings The Battle For Routing To Cisco was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Founder Of CentOS Is Building The Next Platform
Greg Kurtzer, one of the co-founders of the CentOS Linux distribution, the creator of the Singularity container environment for HPC workloads, the founder of the new Rocky Linux distribution that seeks to replace the now defunct CentOS, and an HPC guru in his own right, is on a mission. …
The Founder Of CentOS Is Building The Next Platform was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.