Author Archives: Timothy Prickett Morgan
Author Archives: Timothy Prickett Morgan
The server processor market has gotten a lot more crowded in the past several years, which is great for customers and which has made it both better and tougher for those that are trying to compete with industry juggernaut Intel. …
Throwing Down The Gauntlet To CPU Incumbents was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For any given compute engine, there is the vendor who makes the chip and therefore a lot of the money and then there are the downstream system architects, system integrators, original design manufacturers, and original equipment manufacturers who add further value to that compute engine in one form or another and make their own revenue stream from that innovation. …
Time For A Compute Rematch Between The FPGA And The GPU was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you squint your eyes, a modern FPGA looks like a programmable logic device was crossbred with the mutt of a switch ASIC and an SoC. …
How Far Can You Push Integration With FPGAs? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There are many things that the hyperscalers and cloud builders have taught enterprise IT to respect more than perhaps it had in years gone by. …
How To Drive Infrastructure Like Uber Does was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If FPGAs are going to take off in the datacenter in their own right, they are going to need their own killer apps. …
The Killer Apps For FPGAs Could Be SmartNICs And Storage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Ahead of The Next FPGA Platform event that we hosted recently in San Jose, we talked to Manoj Roge, vice president of product planning and business development at Achronix, about the three waves of FPGAs that have occurred over the past three decades, and in the course of our live conversation, we got a little more insight into the addressable market for FPGAs and also talked about the fourth wave, which is just starting now. …
The Fourth Wave Of FPGA Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
From a conceptual standpoint, the idea of embedding processing within main memory makes logical sense since it would eliminate many layers of latency between compute and memory in modern systems and make the parallel processing inherent in many workloads overlay elegantly onto the distributed compute and storage components to speed up processing. …
Putting In-Memory Processing Through The Paces was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A collaboration including the University of Oxford, University of British Columbia, Intel, New York University, CERN, and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center is working to make it practical to incorporate of Bayesian inference into scientific simulators. …
Using Bayesian Inference To Reverse Engineer Decades Of HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In the long run of the history of International Business Machines, a conglomerate established back in 1911 whose Electric Tabulating System was custom built by Herman Hollerith for the federal government in the United States for the 1890 census and then commercialized, the acquisition of Red Hat by Big Blue might, in hindsight many years from now, turn out to be the most significant of the many transitions that IBM has undergone. …
Making The Red Hat Platform Bet Pay Off For Big Blue was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The GPU has become a standard platform for accelerating high performance computing workloads, at least for those that have had their code tweaked to support acceleration at all. …
Oak Ridge Trials Arm-GPU Combo On HPC Testbed was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It is hard to take on either Intel or Nvidia in their respectively dominant CPU and GPU markets, and credit is due to AMD for taking on both companies at the same time to try to carve itself a larger slice of the datacenter pie. …
AMD Takes A Bigger Bite Out Of The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Like the large enterprises they sell gear to, the big OEMs are a conservative lot and they take a paced, methodical approach to introducing new technologies into the datacenter. …
IBM Bookends AI With New Accelerated Power9 System was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Let’s face it. As far as we knew, given how poorly the server market was doing in the final quarter of 2018 and the first two quarters of 2019, we had no idea how well or poorly it might end up. …
Intel Fills In The First Half Server Pothole – And Then Some was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A decade or so before the GPU started storming the datacenter thanks to Nvidia’s Tesla GPU accelerators and their CUDA parallel programming environment and CPU offload model, FPGAs were starting to gain traction as accelerators in their own right. …
The GPU Is The Worst – And Best – Thing To Happen To The FPGA was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The University of Michigan is one of the top academic centers in the United States with over $1.5 …
The University of Michigan Gets Serious About Supercomputing ROI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The field programmable gate array has always been a different sort of animal in the semiconductor market. …
The Three Eras Of Programmable Logic was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The gap between the performance of processors, broadly defined, and the performance of DRAM main memory, also broadly defined, has been an issue for at least three decades when the gap really started to open up. …
Cache Is King was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Intel has spent more than three decades evolving from the dominant provider of CPUs for personal computers to the dominant supplier of processors for servers in the datacenter. …
Covering All The Compute Bases In A Heterogeneous Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
You don’t have to be a chip designer to program an FPGA, just like you don’t have to be a C++ programmer to code in Java, but it probably helps in both cases if you want to do them well. …
The Inevitability Of FPGAs In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sometimes markets need a particular technology and they are impatient for it, and sometimes technologies get ahead of the immediate needs of customers and their creators have to hang on until the time is right. …
On The Spearpoint Of FPGA And The Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.