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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.
Google Opens Up Spanner Database With PostgreSQL Interface
Search engine and cloud computing juggernaut Google is hosting its Google Cloud Next ’21 conference this week, and one of the more interesting things that the company unveiled is several layers of software that makes its Spanner globally distributed relational database look and feel like the popular open source PostgreSQL relational database. …
Google Opens Up Spanner Database With PostgreSQL Interface was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Eni Chooses Utility Pricing For New HPC4+ Supercomputer
Here are two things you don’t see every day in the realm of scientific and technical high performance computing. …
Eni Chooses Utility Pricing For New HPC4+ Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
VMware Stretches ESXi To Be A Disaggregated Memory Hypervisor
We are strong believers in disaggregation and composability here at The Next Platform, and we think that eventually the tyranny of the physical confines and configurations of motherboard will be over. …
VMware Stretches ESXi To Be A Disaggregated Memory Hypervisor was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Slow But Tectonic Shifts In Datacenter Infrastructure
One of the more interesting trends in infrastructure that we try to get a handle on every once in a while is how much of the server and storage capacity is being deployed in bare metal, standalone fashion and how much is being sold to run utility style, cloud environments. …
The Slow But Tectonic Shifts In Datacenter Infrastructure was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Oracle Still Hanging In There With Exadata Engineered Systems
It may not seem like it, but Oracle is still in the high-end server business, at least when it comes to big machines running its eponymous relational database. …
Oracle Still Hanging In There With Exadata Engineered Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.