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Intel Pushes Xeon SP To The Next Level With Cascade Lake
With the launch of the “Cascade Lake” processors, the second generation of its Xeon SP family of server CPUs, the fullness of the “Purley” server platform that we heard about way back in 2015 is finally being delivered. …
Intel Pushes Xeon SP To The Next Level With Cascade Lake was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Ampere Arm Makes The Packet Processor Rite Of Passage
Any aspiring server processor architecture seems to have a new rite of passage, and that is to be deployed in the Packet bare metal cloud. … “Ampere Arm Makes The Packet Processor Rite Of Passage”
Ampere Arm Makes The Packet Processor Rite Of Passage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
AWS Adds More Epyc Compute To EC2
For the first decade that Amazon Web Services was in operation, its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) raw compute was available in precisely one flavor: Intel Xeon. … “AWS Adds More Epyc Compute To EC2”
AWS Adds More Epyc Compute To EC2 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
A First Peek At Cascade Lake Xeons Ahead Of Launch
It is no secret that Intel has been working to get its “Cascade Lake” processors, the second generation of its Xeon SP family to market as early as possible this year and to ramp sales at the same time that X86 server rival AMD is expected to get its second generation “Rome” Epyc processors in the field. … “A First Peek At Cascade Lake Xeons Ahead Of Launch”
A First Peek At Cascade Lake Xeons Ahead Of Launch was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
How Facebook Might Find Nervana For Machine Learning Training
There is a rumor going around that a certain hyperscaler is going to be augmenting its GPU-based machine learning training and will be adopting Intel’s Nervana Neural Network Processor (NNP) for at least some of its workloads. … “How Facebook Might Find Nervana For Machine Learning Training”
How Facebook Might Find Nervana For Machine Learning Training was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Relentless Competition Drives Down Ethernet Switch Costs
If you want to see what real competition might look like at some point in the future of the server racket, look no further than the Ethernet switch market, where switch ASICs and the companies that build switches alike have to fight for every dollar and make it up in volume every year without pause. … “Relentless Competition Drives Down Ethernet Switch Costs”
Relentless Competition Drives Down Ethernet Switch Costs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The Still Expanding Market For GPU Compute
At this point in the history of the IT business, it is a foregone conclusion that accelerated computing, perhaps in a more diverse manner than many of us anticipated, is the future both in the datacenter and at the edge. … “The Still Expanding Market For GPU Compute”
The Still Expanding Market For GPU Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
On The Hot Seat In The Hyperscale Datacenter
As one of the dominant hyperscalers in the world, Microsoft is out there on the cutting edge, driving efficiencies on every front it can in server, storage, switching, software, and datacenter design. … “On The Hot Seat In The Hyperscale Datacenter”
On The Hot Seat In The Hyperscale Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
How To Benefit From Facebook’s New Network Fabric
In the modern distributed computing world, which is getting ever more disaggregated and some might say discombobulated, as every day passes, the architecture of the network in the datacenter is arguably the most important factor in determining if applications will perform well or not. … “How To Benefit From Facebook’s New Network Fabric”
How To Benefit From Facebook’s New Network Fabric was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Open Compute Takes Root Outside Of Hypercalers
When Facebook open sourced the hardware and datacenter designs of its very first homegrown datacenter in Prineville, Oregon nearly eight years ago, creating the Open Compute Project, it was an act of enlightened self-interest. …
Open Compute Takes Root Outside Of Hypercalers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Inside Facebook’s Future Machine Learning Platforms
The hyperscalers and cloud builders of the world build things that often look and feel like supercomputers if you squint your eyes a little, but if you look closely, you can often see some pretty big differences. …
Inside Facebook’s Future Machine Learning Platforms was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Summit Simulations to Change How we Drive and Explore Space
At the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, Professor Joe Oefelein, from the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech, is heading up a team of researchers working to solve the multifaceted grand challenge of simulating turbulent reactive flows in propulsion and power systems. …
Summit Simulations to Change How we Drive and Explore Space was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
NVM-Express Storage Goes Mainstream Over Ethernet Fabrics
Among the emerging themes for 2019 in the datacenter, one of them is that NVM-Express is finding its place in the storage hierarchy. …
NVM-Express Storage Goes Mainstream Over Ethernet Fabrics was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Voracious Appetite For Compute Is The New Normal
The hyperscalers and cloud builders of the world put a third of their installed base into the trash compactor every year because it is much less costly for them to keep upgrading machinery than it is to operate older stuff that eats space and burns power and cooling less efficiently. …
Voracious Appetite For Compute Is The New Normal was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Connecting The Dots On Why Nvidia Is Buying Mellanox
The related but distinct HPC and AI markets gave Nvidia a taste for building systems, and it looks like the company wants to control more of the hardware and systems software stack than it currently does given that it is willing to shell out $6.9 billion – just about all of the cash it has on hand – to acquire high-end networking equipment provider and long-time partner Mellanox Technologies. …
Connecting The Dots On Why Nvidia Is Buying Mellanox was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The New Bellwether For Enterprise IT
The amount of rejiggering among the IT vendors serving enterprise customers (as distinct from hyperscalers, cloud builders, and HPC centers) in the past decade and a half has been astounding. …
The New Bellwether For Enterprise IT was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Arm Sharpens Its Edge With The “Helios” Neoverse E1
For the past decade, we have documented the attempted rise of ARM processors in the datacenter, specifically in general purpose servers. …
Arm Sharpens Its Edge With The “Helios” Neoverse E1 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Stretching GPU Database Performance With Flash Arrays
For the past decade, flash has been used as a kind of storage accelerator, sprinkled into systems here and crammed into bigger chunks there, often with hierarchical tiering software to make it all work as a go-between that sits between slower storage (or sometimes no other tier of storage) and either CPU DRAM or GPU HBM or GDDR memory. …
Stretching GPU Database Performance With Flash Arrays was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Vast Data Clustered Flash Storage Bans The Disk From The Datacenter
Sometimes, a startup takes such a new and profound approach to a problem that it is hard to know where to begin to describe how radical of a change that company has made in developing its product. …
Vast Data Clustered Flash Storage Bans The Disk From The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Western Digital Drives HPC Simulation Scale On AWS
Any on premises HPC cluster has its own limits of scale and throughput. …
Western Digital Drives HPC Simulation Scale On AWS was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .