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Can A Leaner IBM Be Mean Enough To Grow In The Datacenter?
The company was named International Business Machines for a reason, and over the several decades that IBM concentrated on peddling managed services and consulting services to the largest corporations on Earth, with its Global Services behemoth representing two-thirds of its revenues, the company lost touch with, and took for granted, the machine part of its rich and long heritage. …
Can A Leaner IBM Be Mean Enough To Grow In The Datacenter? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Future Comes Back Into The Equation For IT Spending
For nearly two years, the world has been coping with the coronavirus pandemic and it has had obvious and consequential effects on the market for hardware, software, and services in the datacenter. …
The Future Comes Back Into The Equation For IT Spending was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Meta Buys, Rather Than Builds And Opens, Its Massive AI Supercomputer
If you thought it took a lot of compute and storage to build Facebook’s social network, you ain’t seen nothing yet. …
Meta Buys, Rather Than Builds And Opens, Its Massive AI Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In The Absence Of A Xeon Roadmap, Intel Makes Us Draw One
One of the oldest adages in the systems business is that customers don’t buy processors, but rather they buy roadmaps. …
In The Absence Of A Xeon Roadmap, Intel Makes Us Draw One was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As 2021 Wound Down, Big Clouds Did Record Spending On Infrastructure
The gradual trend of IT organizations spending more on dedicated or shared cloud infrastructure than they do on non-cloudy gear continues its inevitable, glacial transformation. …
As 2021 Wound Down, Big Clouds Did Record Spending On Infrastructure was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Money Printing Press That Is Chip Maker TSMC
Not every manufacturing node comes out perfectly and not every one comes out on time, but in the past decade and a half, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the world’s largest and most technologically advanced etcher of chips in the world, has done far better than any of its few remaining peers to push the chip manufacturing envelope while also maintaining consistent and profitable production of older nodes. …
The Money Printing Press That Is Chip Maker TSMC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Composing The Impossible Server
Paid Feature There are many ways to scale up and scale out systems, and that is a problem as much as it is a solution for distributed systems architects. …
Composing The Impossible Server was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sacrificing Some Performance To Make Cloud Data Analytics Portable
The big three clouds – Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud – are all addressing the same issues of scale, performance, and economics and are also trying to attract the same workloads from the same pool of enterprise, government, and academic customers. …
Sacrificing Some Performance To Make Cloud Data Analytics Portable was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Nvidia Adds Cluster Management To Its Enterprise Stack
Chip maker Nvidia might be best known for its graphics and datacenter compute engines, but the company has made no secret of its aspirations to be a bigger player across the datacenter. …
Nvidia Adds Cluster Management To Its Enterprise Stack was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Wanted: An Energy-Aware Datacenter Application Scheduler
Around the world, the number and size of datacenters are both growing at a fast pace, and the devices housed in them are consuming more and more power as well to deliver ever-increasing performance. …
Wanted: An Energy-Aware Datacenter Application Scheduler was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Nvidia Research Plots A Course To Multiple Multichip GPU Engines
There are two types of packaging that represent the future of computing, and both will have validity in certain domains: Wafer scale integration and multichip module packaging. …
Nvidia Research Plots A Course To Multiple Multichip GPU Engines was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Year Ahead In Datacenter Compute
For more than a decade, the pace of the server market was set by the rollout of Intel’s Xeon processors each year. …
The Year Ahead In Datacenter Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Inside Amazon’s Graviton3 Arm Server Processor
The Graviton family of Arm server chips designed by the Annapurna Labs division of Amazon Web Services is arguably the highest volume Arm server chips the datacenter market today, and they have precisely one – and only one – customer. …
Inside Amazon’s Graviton3 Arm Server Processor was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Datacenter Networks Push Ethernet Switching To New Highs
The switching market has its ups and downs depending on the upgrade cycle for server processors and the nature of the economy at any given time, and despite the uncertainty in the economy, the Ethernet switching and routing markets keep humming along. …
Datacenter Networks Push Ethernet Switching To New Highs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Memory Snapshots Bring Checkpointing Into The 21st Century
When you have a massively distributed computing job that can take months to run across thousands to hundreds of thousands of compute elements, one software hardware or software crash can mean losing an enormous amount of work. …
Memory Snapshots Bring Checkpointing Into The 21st Century was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Stacking Up AMD MI200 Versus Nvidia A100 Compute Engines
The modern GPU compute engine is a microcosm of the high performance computing datacenter at large. …
Stacking Up AMD MI200 Versus Nvidia A100 Compute Engines was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Hyperscalers Start Taking Pure Storage Flash For A Spin
Usually, innovation starts with the hyperscalers, HPC centers, and cloud builders of the world and spreads to the enterprise. …
Hyperscalers Start Taking Pure Storage Flash For A Spin was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AWS Goes Wide And Deep With Graviton3 Server Chip
It is always an exciting time when there is a new compute engine coming into the market, and interest is particularly keen with any new Arm server chip entry. …
AWS Goes Wide And Deep With Graviton3 Server Chip was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Ghosts Of Itanium – And HPC – Give HPE Long Sought Profits
It may have taken the better part of a decade, but the Itanium platform has yielded the kinds of profits that Hewlett Packard Enterprise long sought and rarely attained. …
The Ghosts Of Itanium – And HPC – Give HPE Long Sought Profits was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In A Peer-To-Peer Datacenter, PCI-Express Fabrics Will Be Pervasive
Supercomputers are expensive, and getting increasingly so. Even if they are delivering impressive performance gains over the past decade, modern HPC workloads require an incredible amount of performance, and this is particularly true of any workload that is going to blend together traditional HPC simulation and modeling with some sort of machine learning training and inference. …
In A Peer-To-Peer Datacenter, PCI-Express Fabrics Will Be Pervasive was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.