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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.
Should Nutanix And Citrix Systems Merge To Make A Better Platform?
When we analyzed the financial reports coming out of hyperconverged platform maker Nutanix thirteen weeks ago, we lamented the fact that while Nutanix defined a new market and is one of the leaders in that market, it has been unable to expand its market fast enough to become a profitable company even after being in the field for more than a decade. …
Should Nutanix And Citrix Systems Merge To Make A Better Platform? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Finally, A Coherent Interconnect Strategy: CXL Absorbs Gen-Z
It is refreshing to find instances in the IT sector where competing groups with their own agendas work together for the common good and the improvement of systems everywhere. …
Finally, A Coherent Interconnect Strategy: CXL Absorbs Gen-Z was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AMD Is Beating Nvidia At Its 2017 Game, But The Game Has Moved On
Hold on a second. Nvidia’s sales of chips and systems to supercomputer centers is not as big as we might be thinking. …
AMD Is Beating Nvidia At Its 2017 Game, But The Game Has Moved On was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Aiming At Hyperscalers And Edge, Nvidia Cuts Down To The A2 Accelerator
The world would be a simpler place for all processing engine makers if they just had to make one device to cover all use cases, thus maximizing volumes and minimizing per unit costs. …
Aiming At Hyperscalers And Edge, Nvidia Cuts Down To The A2 Accelerator was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Xilinx Tunes Up FPGAs For HPC, Graph Analytics
High performance computing hardware is really a software game, and the software we are referring to is at a very low level where deep expertise in libraries and solvers can make the difference between a capable device performing up to its specifications and, well, not so much. …
Xilinx Tunes Up FPGAs For HPC, Graph Analytics was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Nvidia CEO On Competition, Software, And The Omniverse
All of the great technologists live in the future and then they bring it back to us with the help of countless engineers who derive the specifications from their vision and make ideas into reality and, ultimately, into money to repeat the process again. …
Nvidia CEO On Competition, Software, And The Omniverse was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
HPE Wins Another European HPC Center With Cray EX Plus AMD Compute
Per aspera, ad astra, an old Latin adage that means “through striving, to the stars,” is the root of the name for a hybrid HPC and AI supercomputer that the Grand Équipment National de Calcul Intensif (GENCI), working in conjunction with the Centre Informatique National de l’Enseignement Supérieur (CINES), one of three national HPC centers in France, will be building next year to bring a factor of 20X more compute power to bear on scientific applications. …
HPE Wins Another European HPC Center With Cray EX Plus AMD Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Top500 Supercomputers: Hungry For The Exascale Feast
Let’s just cut right to the chase scene. The latest Top500 ranking of supercomputers, announced today at the SC21 supercomputing conference being held in St Louis, needed the excitement of an actual 1 exaflops sustained performance machine running the High Performance Linpack benchmark at 64-bit precision. …
Top500 Supercomputers: Hungry For The Exascale Feast was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AMD Gets Inside Facebook’s Latest – And Most Powerful – Microserver
Sometimes, you do put new wine in old bottles. This is what it looks like Meta – well, really its Facebook social network group – is doing as it adds a microserver node based on a custom AMD “Milan” Epyc 7003 processor to its datacenter infrastructure. …
AMD Gets Inside Facebook’s Latest – And Most Powerful – Microserver was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Getting Meta: Abstracting And Multisourcing The Network Like An FBOSS
If you want to build the world’s largest social network, with 2.9 billion users, and the massive PHP stack that makes it into an application, you need a lot of infrastructure and you need it to arrive predictably. …
Getting Meta: Abstracting And Multisourcing The Network Like An FBOSS was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AMD Deepens Its Already Broad Epyc Server Chip Roadmap
The hyperscalers, cloud builders, HPC centers, and OEM server manufacturers of the world who build servers for everyone else all want, more than anything else, competition between component suppliers and a regular, predictable, almost boring cadence of new component introductions. …
AMD Deepens Its Already Broad Epyc Server Chip Roadmap was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The AMD “Aldebaran” GPU That Won Exascale
If you want to know how and why AMD motors have been chosen for so many of the pre-exascale and exascale HPC and AI systems, despite the dominance of Intel in CPUs and the dominance of Nvidia in GPUs, you need look no further for an answer than the new “Aldebaran” Instinct MI200 GPU accelerator from Nvidia and its Infinity Fabric 3.0 coherent interconnect that is being also added to selected Epyc CPUs from Nvidia. …
The AMD “Aldebaran” GPU That Won Exascale was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.