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Crunching Photons And Electrons Down Into Datacenter Switch ASICs
At some point, Moore’s Law increases in performance are going to hit a wall when it comes to datacenter networks. …
Crunching Photons And Electrons Down Into Datacenter Switch ASICs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Marvell Cranks Up Cores And Clocks With “Triton” ThunderX3
Arm server chip upstart Ampere Computing made a big splash with its 80-core “Quicksilver” Altra processor two weeks ago, and Marvell, which is the volume leader in Arm server chips with its “Vulcan” ThunderX2 processors (largely inherited from its acquisition of Broadcom’s Arm server chip assets), is hitting back with some revelations about its future “Triton” ThunderX3 chip and its roadmap out beyond that. …
Marvell Cranks Up Cores And Clocks With “Triton” ThunderX3 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Last Hurrah Before The Server Recession
Excepting some potholes here and there and a few times when the hyperscalers and cloud builders tapped the brakes, it has been one hell of a run in the last decade for servers. …
The Last Hurrah Before The Server Recession was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Tuning The FPGA For Clouds And Comms
It has been a long time since plain vanilla programmable logic circuits known as field programmable gate arrays have been available in a raw form. …
Tuning The FPGA For Clouds And Comms was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Metronomic Cadence Of Chippery From AMD
Companies invest in platforms over a decade or more, and that is why architectures persist longer than we might think given technological differences and economic forces. …
The Metronomic Cadence Of Chippery From AMD was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Serious Business Of Being A Server OEM
Not everybody is a hyperscaler or large public cloud builder, and no two companies are happier about that than Dell Technologies and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, the two largest original equipment manufacturers in the world for servers and storage and also the two companies that chased plenty of sales at these webscale datacenter operators in years gone by but which have learned, of necessity, to walk away from deals where they can’t make money or even lose money. …
The Serious Business Of Being A Server OEM was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AMD Is Determined To Gets Its Rightful Datacenter Share
There is an equally virtuous and vicious cycle that propels all computing: Innovation requires competition to propel it, and competition requires innovation to meet it; repeat or fade. …
AMD Is Determined To Gets Its Rightful Datacenter Share was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Lawrence Livermore To Surpass 2 Exaflops With AMD Compute
As the steward of the nuclear weapon arsenal for the United States government, it is probably not an overstatement to say that Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of the main supercomputer and scientific research facilities operated by the Department of Energy, is keenly interested in bang for the buck. …
Lawrence Livermore To Surpass 2 Exaflops With AMD Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A Flare For SmartNICs
As the hyperscalers and cloud builders go, so goes the enterprise. …
A Flare For SmartNICs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Ampere Aims For The Clouds With Altra Arm Server Chip
At this point in the history of information technology, there is no way to introduce a new processor that does not appeal to the hyperscalers and cloud builders. …
Ampere Aims For The Clouds With Altra Arm Server Chip was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sticking With Both The Pure And The Storage Strategy
The best technology companies have always taken something that was complex and done a whole lot of engineering or in many cases re-engineering of it to make it usable and consumable – with the right pricing – so it can go mainstream. …
Sticking With Both The Pure And The Storage Strategy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Weathering Heights: Of Resolutions And Ensembles
In the past year or so, watching supercomputer maker Cray, which is now part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, has been a bit like playing a country and western song backwards on the record player. …
Weathering Heights: Of Resolutions And Ensembles was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Intel Reacts To The Competitive Heat On Its Xeons
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.
Google Teaches AI To Play The Game Of Chip Design
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.
AMD Tweaks Rome Epyc Server Chip Lineup
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.
The Jellyfish-Inspired Database Under AWS Block Storage
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.
The Datacenter Has An Appetite For GPU Compute
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.
The Hyperconvergence Of Virtual Machines And Containers
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.
Going Beyond Exascale Computing
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.
Sometimes The Road To Petaflops Is Paved With Gold And Platinum
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.