Author Archives: Timothy Prickett Morgan
Author Archives: Timothy Prickett Morgan
A system is more than its central processor, and perhaps at no time in history has this ever been true than right now. …
Intel Declares A Truce Before Bus Wars Flare Up was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There are at least two – and possibly more – paths to make Arm processors competitive with the Intel and now AMD X86 incumbent processors in the datacenter. …
The Other Way To Bring Arm CPUs To Servers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
With the dividing line between switching and routing blurring among the hyperscalers and cloud builders, it is no wonder to us that switching is growing as Ethernet switch ASICs get more and more routing functions and true Ethernet routing has remained more or less flat in the past five years. …
Routing Boosts Switching As The Lines Between Them Blur was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Competition in and of itself does not directly drive innovation – customer needs that might be met by some other product is really what makes suppliers hop to and get the lead out. …
Amping Up The Arm Server Roadmap was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If hyperscalers, cloud builders, HPC centers, enterprises, and both OEMs and ODMs like one thing, it is a steady drumbeat of technology enhancements to drive their datacenters forward. …
Broadcom Launches Another Tomahawk Into The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For those involved with large-scale system planning, design, and procurement for campus-wide supercomputers, the target is balance. …
Operating A Campus-Wide HPC Center Like An Enterprise was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Enterprises are awash in data, and though many are tempted to save it all for later analysis – after all it worked for Google for many years – the store then analyze approach is poorly suited to environments with data sources that never stop. …
Everybody Has Big Data – How To Cope With It was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you are going to take on Intel in server processors, you have to play the same kind of long game that Intel itself played as it jumped from the desktop to the datacenter. …
Looking Ahead To Marvell’s Future ThunderX Processors was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Server consumption is a pretty good proxy for how enterprises of all shapes and sizes feel about their particular business. …
Datacenters Are Hungry For Servers Again was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Systems management has always been in a race to catch up with the innovation in systems, and it is always nipping at the heels. …
Time Is Always Money, Especially With HPC On The Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Finally, we get to test out how well or poorly a well-designed Arm server chip will do in the datacenter. …
Finally: AWS Gives Servers A Real Shot In The Arm was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It took decades for server virtualization to go mainstream, making their way from hardware and software partitions on mainframes three decades ago down to proprietary and Unix systems two decades ago to X86 servers with VMware, XenServer, Microsoft, and Red Hat all doing their part. …
Taking The PCI Express To Malleable Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
One of the recurring themes at the recent HPC Day event that we hosted ahead of the SC19 supercomputing conference in Denver was that capability class supercomputers are getting more and more expensive. …
Bending The Supercomputing Cost Curve Down was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The profit pools in datacenter infrastructure are a bit like oases in the desert: There are a lot of miles between them, and some of them turn out to be mirages. …
Holding The Line In The Enterprise was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is funny to think that in a certain light, AMD has Big Blue to thank for its resurgence in the datacenter. …
Talking System Architecture With AMD CTO Mark Papermaster was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We are not shy of playing guessing games here at The Next Platform, as you all well know. …
Doing The Math On Future Exascale Supercomputers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Microsoft Azure has been able to put actual Cray XC series supercomputers and CS Storm clusters in the public cloud for more than two years now, and it is unclear how many companies have commissioned Cray, now part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, to do so. …
Public Cloud Giants Fight For HPC Supremacy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The one thing that AMD’s return to the CPU market and its more aggressive moves in the GPU compute arena have done, as well as Intel’s plan to create a line of discrete Xe GPUs that can be used as companions to its Xeon processors, has done is push Nvidia and Arm closer together. …
Nvidia Arms Up Server OEMs And ODMs For Hybrid Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The days when the X86 processor could do just about every kind of processing in the datacenter are gone. …
The Four Workhorses Of The Data Apocalypse was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The datacenter business at Nvidia hit a rough patch a little less than a year ago, but it is starting to pick up again after a few quarters of declines and may soon be in positive growth territory. …
The Datacenter Starts To Perk Up For Nvidia was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.