A New Era In Servers Is Starting Now

You know the world is a different place when shipping 2.58 million servers in a quarter feels like a slowdown, a disappointment, and perhaps a leading indicator of an overall economic slowdown in the world. …

A New Era In Servers Is Starting Now was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .

Where Does Nvidia Go In The Datacenter From Here?

We have to admit that it is often a lot more fun watching an upstart carve out whole new slices of business, or create them out of what appears to be thin air, in the datacenter than it is to watch how it will respond to intense competitive pressures and somehow manage to keep growing despite that. …

Where Does Nvidia Go In The Datacenter From Here? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .

CockroachDB Wants To Take A Bite Out Of Oracle

Cockroach Labs has created a clone of Google’s Spanner geographically distributed database, and it looks like adoption of the CockroachDB database is starting to ride up the blade of the proverbial hockey stick and is moving quickly towards the much steeper handle. …

CockroachDB Wants To Take A Bite Out Of Oracle was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .

Selling Distributed Public Cloud, One Rack At A Time

The most interesting thing about Hewlett Packard Enterprise has nothing to do with its many products in compute, storage, and networking, or even its recent $1.3 billion deal to acquire supercomputer maker Cray. …

Selling Distributed Public Cloud, One Rack At A Time was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .

Those Without Persistent Memory Are Fated To Repeat It

We have published a number of stories lately that talk about the innovative uses of Intel’s 3D XPoint Optane persistent memory modules, which are a key component of the company’s “Cascade Lake” Xeon SP systems and which are also becoming a foundational technology in clustered storage based on NVM-Express over Fabrics interconnects from a number of storage upstarts. …

Those Without Persistent Memory Are Fated To Repeat It was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .

With Cray Deal, HPE Finally Enters The HPC Big Leagues

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has reached the top of the HPC sector in an unconventional way, but one that could prove truly transformative for its new acquisition, legendary supercomputer maker Cray. …

With Cray Deal, HPE Finally Enters The HPC Big Leagues was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .

DUG Sets Foundation For Exascale HPC Utility With Xeon Phi

While exascale systems, even at the single precision computational capability commonly used in the oil and gas industry, will cost on the order of $250 million, that cost pales in comparison to the capital outlay of drilling exploratory deep water wells, which can cost $100 million a pop. …

DUG Sets Foundation For Exascale HPC Utility With Xeon Phi was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .

The CPU Still Matters In The AI Stack

The CPU does not rule the computing roost when it comes to machine learning training, but it still has a role when it comes to machine learning inference and for other kinds of data analytics related to machine learning. …

The CPU Still Matters In The AI Stack was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .

Cray, AMD Tag Team On 1.5 Exaflops “Frontier” Supercomputer

The competition for the compute engines in hybrid HPC and AI supercomputer systems is heating up, and it is beginning to look a bit like back to the future with Cray on the rise and AMD also revitalized. …

Cray, AMD Tag Team On 1.5 Exaflops “Frontier” Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .

Starting Thinking About AI Workflows, Not Just AI Platforms

Hardware is the most tangible part of any system, and it is the aspect of the system that tends to get the most attention. …

Starting Thinking About AI Workflows, Not Just AI Platforms was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .

AWS Is Now The Largest Systems Business In The World

Considering all of the hundreds of different moving parts, as gauged by different types of features and services, that Amazon Web Services delivers on its public cloud, and the ever-increasing complexity of the AWS platform, it is pretty amazing that the cloud juggernaut can delivery pretty consistently growing revenue growth. …

AWS Is Now The Largest Systems Business In The World was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .

Common Componentry Is The Key to Edge Architectures

The edge has caught the imagination of IT vendors, who envision a place well outside of the confines of the central datacenter but not quite in the cloud where the vast amounts of data that are being generated by billions of devices, systems and sensors can be quickly captured, stored, processed and analyzed in as close to real time as possible. …

Common Componentry Is The Key to Edge Architectures was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .

Is That Canary In The Datacenter Feeling Dizzy?

The market for servers used to be a lot more predictable in the past, with a portion of the tens millions of companies worldwide buying machinery in their own cycles that more or less coincided with the global gross domestic product. …

Is That Canary In The Datacenter Feeling Dizzy? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .

Stacking Up Cascade Lake Xeons Against AMD Epyc For HPC

In theory, customers running HPC simulation and modeling applications want to cram as much compute in as small of a space as they can. …

Stacking Up Cascade Lake Xeons Against AMD Epyc For HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .

The Long View On The Intel Xeon Architecture

Incremental change is the secret to the success of the human race, and it is also its most difficult aspect in some regards. …

The Long View On The Intel Xeon Architecture was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .

Big Data In Little Spaces: Hadoop And Spark At The Edge

The advent of scalable analytics in the form of Hadoop and Spark seems to be moving to the end of the Technology Hype Cycle. …

Big Data In Little Spaces: Hadoop And Spark At The Edge was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .

Aurora Exascale AI Supercomputer To Light A Path In The Cancer Fight

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest incidence data, cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, exceeded only by heart disease. …

Aurora Exascale AI Supercomputer To Light A Path In The Cancer Fight was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .

Back To The HPC Future With Next Generation AMD Epyc Processors

By its very nature, high performance computing is conflicted. On the one hand, HPC belongs on the bleeding edge, trying out new ideas and testing new technologies. …

Back To The HPC Future With Next Generation AMD Epyc Processors was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .

MemVerge Converged Storage Makes Clever Use Of Optane Memory

Now that Optane Persistent Memory Modules, based on bit-addressable 3D XPoint memory, are finally available from Intel, everybody in the storage business is trying to figure out how to best make use of them. …

MemVerge Converged Storage Makes Clever Use Of Optane Memory was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .

Prying Open The Lid On Intel’s Multichip Cascade Lake-AP

Imagine for a second that you are Intel.

The few server CPU makers that remain in the market – AMD, IBM, Marvell, and Ampere – have more memory controllers on their sockets than you do. …

Prying Open The Lid On Intel’s Multichip Cascade Lake-AP was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .