Author Archives: Timothy Prickett Morgan
Author Archives: Timothy Prickett Morgan
Whatever is going on with its competitive positioning against revitalized X86 server chip rival AMD, Intel clearly felt that it could not wait for the launch of its 14 nanometer “Cooper Lake” and 10 nanometer “Ice Lake” Xeon SP processors to address it. …
Intel Reacts To The Competitive Heat On Its Xeons was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If it wasn’t bad enough that Moore’s Law improvements in the density and cost of transistors is slowing. …
Google Teaches AI To Play The Game Of Chip Design was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
With the ramping of volumes, the maturing of the manufacturing process, and the widening number of use cases in the field, there is always an opportunity for the lineup of every type and generation of compute engine to get some tweaks here and there. …
AMD Tweaks Rome Epyc Server Chip Lineup was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you want inspiration for a hyperscale, resilient distributed block storage service, apparently a jellyfish is a good place to start looking for architectural features. …
The Jellyfish-Inspired Database Under AWS Block Storage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is not inconceivable, but probably also not very likely, that the datacenter business at GPU juggernaut Nvidia could at some point in the next one, two, or three years equal that of the core and foundational gaming sector. …
The Datacenter Has An Appetite For GPU Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
No platform can be everything to everybody. And while there are plenty of organizations that operate at scale who create their own platforms, often using best of breed components, there are some that – perhaps because of the experience of constantly cobbling together systems into platforms – just do not want to do the experimenting and testing and weaving. …
The Hyperconvergence Of Virtual Machines And Containers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
One thing is certain: The explosion of data creation in our society will continue as far as pundits and anyone else can forecast. …
Going Beyond Exascale Computing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Supercomputing, with a few exceptions, is a shared resource that is allocated to users in a particular field or geography to run their simulations and models on systems that are much larger than they might otherwise be able to buy on their own. …
Sometimes The Road To Petaflops Is Paved With Gold And Platinum was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The server processor market has gotten a lot more crowded in the past several years, which is great for customers and which has made it both better and tougher for those that are trying to compete with industry juggernaut Intel. …
Throwing Down The Gauntlet To CPU Incumbents was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For any given compute engine, there is the vendor who makes the chip and therefore a lot of the money and then there are the downstream system architects, system integrators, original design manufacturers, and original equipment manufacturers who add further value to that compute engine in one form or another and make their own revenue stream from that innovation. …
Time For A Compute Rematch Between The FPGA And The GPU was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you squint your eyes, a modern FPGA looks like a programmable logic device was crossbred with the mutt of a switch ASIC and an SoC. …
How Far Can You Push Integration With FPGAs? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There are many things that the hyperscalers and cloud builders have taught enterprise IT to respect more than perhaps it had in years gone by. …
How To Drive Infrastructure Like Uber Does was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If FPGAs are going to take off in the datacenter in their own right, they are going to need their own killer apps. …
The Killer Apps For FPGAs Could Be SmartNICs And Storage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Ahead of The Next FPGA Platform event that we hosted recently in San Jose, we talked to Manoj Roge, vice president of product planning and business development at Achronix, about the three waves of FPGAs that have occurred over the past three decades, and in the course of our live conversation, we got a little more insight into the addressable market for FPGAs and also talked about the fourth wave, which is just starting now. …
The Fourth Wave Of FPGA Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
From a conceptual standpoint, the idea of embedding processing within main memory makes logical sense since it would eliminate many layers of latency between compute and memory in modern systems and make the parallel processing inherent in many workloads overlay elegantly onto the distributed compute and storage components to speed up processing. …
Putting In-Memory Processing Through The Paces was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A collaboration including the University of Oxford, University of British Columbia, Intel, New York University, CERN, and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center is working to make it practical to incorporate of Bayesian inference into scientific simulators. …
Using Bayesian Inference To Reverse Engineer Decades Of HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In the long run of the history of International Business Machines, a conglomerate established back in 1911 whose Electric Tabulating System was custom built by Herman Hollerith for the federal government in the United States for the 1890 census and then commercialized, the acquisition of Red Hat by Big Blue might, in hindsight many years from now, turn out to be the most significant of the many transitions that IBM has undergone. …
Making The Red Hat Platform Bet Pay Off For Big Blue was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The GPU has become a standard platform for accelerating high performance computing workloads, at least for those that have had their code tweaked to support acceleration at all. …
Oak Ridge Trials Arm-GPU Combo On HPC Testbed was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is hard to take on either Intel or Nvidia in their respectively dominant CPU and GPU markets, and credit is due to AMD for taking on both companies at the same time to try to carve itself a larger slice of the datacenter pie. …
AMD Takes A Bigger Bite Out Of The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Like the large enterprises they sell gear to, the big OEMs are a conservative lot and they take a paced, methodical approach to introducing new technologies into the datacenter. …
IBM Bookends AI With New Accelerated Power9 System was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.