Timothy Prickett Morgan

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Big Iron Will Always Drive Big Spending

Starting way back in the late 1980s, when Sun Microsystems was on the rise in the datacenter and Hewlett Packard was its main rival in Unix-based systems, market forces compelled IBM to finally and forcefully field its own open systems machines to combat Sun, HP, and others behind the Unix movement. …

Big Iron Will Always Drive Big Spending was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Where China’s Long Road To Datacenter Compute Independence Leads

While we are big fans of laissez faire capitalism like that of the United States and sometimes Europe — right up to the point where monopolies naturally form and therefore competition essentially stops, and thus monopolists need to be regulated in some fashion to promote the common good as well as their own profits — we also see the benefits that accrue from a command economy like that which China has built over the past four decades. …

Where China’s Long Road To Datacenter Compute Independence Leads was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Is The Shift To Single Socket Servers Starting?

One of the key strategic moves that AMD made when it architected its comeback in the datacenter was to beef up the compute, I/O, and memory on a single server socket while at the same time making that socket out of chiplets that were significantly cheaper to manufacture and integrate than a monolithic chip was to put into the same socket. …

Is The Shift To Single Socket Servers Starting? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The Edge Is Just A Massive, Geographically Distributed Cluster

Sponsored If you have a hundred or a thousand machines that you want to work in concert to run a simulation or a model or a machine learning training workload that cannot physically be done by any one single machine, you build a distributed systems cluster and there are all kinds of known tools to manage the underlying server nodes, to create the overarching computing environment, and to then carve it up into pieces to push work through it. …

The Edge Is Just A Massive, Geographically Distributed Cluster was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Intel’s Best DPU Will Be Commercially Available — Someday

UPDATE: One of the reasons why Intel spent $16.7 billion to acquire FPGA maker Altera six years ago was because it was convinced that its onload model — where big parts of the storage and networking stack were running on CPUs — was going to go out of favor and that companies would want to offload this work to network interface cards with lots of their own much cheaper and much more energy efficient processing. …

Intel’s Best DPU Will Be Commercially Available — Someday was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The Huge Payoff Of Extreme Co-Design In Molecular Dynamics

When money is really no object and the budget negotiations involve taking a small slice of your personal net worth of $7.5 billion out of one pocket and putting it into another, and you have the technical chops to understand the complexities of molecular dynamics and have a personal mission to cure disease, then you can build any damned supercomputer you want. …

The Huge Payoff Of Extreme Co-Design In Molecular Dynamics was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The Challenge – And Opportunity – Of Being A Niche AI Cloud

In this era of hyperscaler and cloud builder titans, their seven of whom account for about half of the IT infrastructure bought in the world, it is important to remember the importance of niches and the vital role that other makers of systems, other sellers of systems, and other renters of systems all play in the IT ecosystem. …

The Challenge – And Opportunity – Of Being A Niche AI Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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