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The Impending AMD Milan Versus Intel Ice Lake Server Showdown
What a strange server CPU world we live in. The dozen or so biggest customers in the world command something on the order of 45 percent of the server CPU shipments, but significantly lower share of the revenue because of the volume discounts they can command, and they not only shape the product rollouts, their opinions can kill off processor SKUs long before we even know about them on announcement day. …
The Impending AMD Milan Versus Intel Ice Lake Server Showdown was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Datacenter Infrastructure Is Still Only Partly Cloudy
If you want to understand datacenter infrastructure and how the market for wares is changing, it helps to start with an absolute, top-down, all-encompassing view that brings together all server, storage, and switching revenues into a single bucket, eliminating the overlaps that occur when talking about these three different categories separately. …
Datacenter Infrastructure Is Still Only Partly Cloudy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Qualcomm Probably Not Pursuing Arm Servers With Nuvia Purchase
Hot on the heels of our overview of the state of the Arm server CPU landscape yesterday, chip maker Qualcomm, which dabbled in Arm server chips a few years back, announced that it was acquiring startup Nuvia for its Arm chips and design team. …
Qualcomm Probably Not Pursuing Arm Servers With Nuvia Purchase was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Finally, The Right Pilot At The Intel Helm
Running a company of any size is the hardest thing you will ever do. …
Finally, The Right Pilot At The Intel Helm was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Hope Springs Eternal For Arm Servers
IT organizations are funny creatures, indeed. On the one paw, they are eternally optimistic about the prospects for new technologies, and on the other paw, they are extremely resistant to change because of the economic and technical risks that change requires. …
Hope Springs Eternal For Arm Servers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Software Is Eating Every Layer Of The Datacenter
Software may be eating the world, as Marc Andreessen correctly asserted nearly a decade ago, but some parts of the world are crunchier than others and take some time for the hardware to be smashed open and for software to flow in and out of it. …
Software Is Eating Every Layer Of The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Hybrid Computing Sharpens Its Edge
Computing has become more complex as the digital age has progressed. …
Hybrid Computing Sharpens Its Edge was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Tectonic Shift To Virtual Distributed Routing
In the IT sector, there is a constant flow of little changes to hardware and software that culminate in progress. …
The Tectonic Shift To Virtual Distributed Routing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Serendipitous AI System And Cloud Builder
No matter how established any market is, there is always the churning and burning of change happening and there is always an opportunity for new players to carve out a place for themselves in new niches. …
The Serendipitous AI System And Cloud Builder was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
CentOS And HPC: It’s Okay, We Are Moving On
The recent announcement by the CentOS project to discontinue mirroring Red Hat releases, which The Next Platform has already reported on, has hit some sectors hard. …
CentOS And HPC: It’s Okay, We Are Moving On was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Once And Future Federated Database
There are many different schools of thought when it comes to databases, which is one of the reasons that we launch our inaugural event focused solely on database technologies this year. …
The Once And Future Federated Database was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Nobody Owns Linux, But You Can Pay For It – Or Not
There is nothing quite like the open source community to demonstrate the principles of freedom, democracy, and meritocracy – and the difficulties of bringing those principles to bear and keeping them pure when money is involved. …
Nobody Owns Linux, But You Can Pay For It – Or Not was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Taking The Pulse Of The Core HPC Market
Since a big chunk of the IBM HPC team moved over to Lenovo as part of the System x division being acquired by Lenovo back in late 2014, which coincided when we started The Next Platform, we have made a habit of talking to Scott Tease, executive director of high performance computing at Lenovo to take the pulse of the volume segment of the HPC space. …
Taking The Pulse Of The Core HPC Market was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Server Spending Holds Up Despite Every Damned Thing
Our increasingly networked and compute-intensive lives is driving the server business, and despite the cornucopia of fear, uncertainty, and doubt that spans the globe, the appetite for compute as expressed in shiny racks of servers or metal pizza boxes or an occasional tower sitting in a closet or under a desk continues despite the kind of consumption we have not seen since the dot-com boom. …
Server Spending Holds Up Despite Every Damned Thing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Increasing Hybrid Vigor Of AWS Is Historical
We don’t use the first person a lot here at The Next Platform, but I am going to make an exception. …
The Increasing Hybrid Vigor Of AWS Is Historical was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
One Way To Bring DPU Acceleration To Supercomputing
That is not a typo in the title. We did not mean to say GPU in title above, or even make a joke that in hybrid CPU_GPU systems, the CPU is more of a serial processing accelerator with a giant slow DDR4 cache for GPUs in hybrid supercomputers these days – therefore making the CPU a kind of accelerator for the GPU. …
One Way To Bring DPU Acceleration To Supercomputing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Broadcom Widens And Smartens Switch Chip Lineup
Cisco Systems may still be the biggest supplier of switches and routers in general, but it has long since been surpassed by Broadcom when it comes to suppling the silicon that does the switching itself and sometimes even a little bit of routing in the datacenter in particular. …
Broadcom Widens And Smartens Switch Chip Lineup was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Redemption Of AMD In HPC
Many of the technologists at AMD who are driving the Epyc CPU and Instinct GPU roadmaps as well as the $35 billion acquisition of FPGA maker Xilinx have long and deep experience in the high performance computing market that is characterized by the old school definition of simulation and modeling workloads running on federated or clustered systems. …
The Redemption Of AMD In HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Injecting Machine Learning And Bayesian Optimization Into HPC
No matter what kind of traditional HPC simulation and modeling system you have, no matter what kind of fancy new machine learning AI system you have, IBM has an appliance that it wants to sell you to help make these systems work better – and work better together if you are mixing HPC and AI. …
Injecting Machine Learning And Bayesian Optimization Into HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Defying Supply Constraints, Nvidia Turns In Its Best Quarter Ever
To one way of thinking about it, this is the best of times among the worst of times for Nvidia. …
Defying Supply Constraints, Nvidia Turns In Its Best Quarter Ever was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.