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The Supercomputing Efficiency Curve Bends In The Right Direction
Things get a little wonky at exascale and hyperscale. Things that don’t matter quite as much at enterprise scale, such as the cost or the performance per watt or the performance per dollar per watt for a system or a cluster, end up dominating the buying decisions. …
The Supercomputing Efficiency Curve Bends In The Right Direction was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Doing The Math On Fractal HPC
At every key leap in processing capacity in high performance computing – and just rattling off more than two decades from teraflops through petaflops, and now on the verge of exaflops in two years or so – there has been this tension between custom-built systems that break through performance barriers and more general purpose machines based on more off of the shelf components that cost less and tend to be fast followers. …
Doing The Math On Fractal HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Gen-Z Memory Servers Loom On The Horizon
We have been waiting for a long, long time for the ionic bond between compute and main memory to be softened to something a little more covalent and therefore allow for more complex storage structures to be formed within systems and across them. …
Gen-Z Memory Servers Loom On The Horizon was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Urgent HPC Can Burst Affordably To The Cloud
One of the benefits of the public cloud is that it allows HPC centers to experiment and push the limits of scalability in a way they could never do if they had to requisition, budget, and install machinery on premises. …
Urgent HPC Can Burst Affordably To The Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Intel Declares A Truce Before Bus Wars Flare Up
A system is more than its central processor, and perhaps at no time in history has this ever been true than right now. …
Intel Declares A Truce Before Bus Wars Flare Up was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Other Way To Bring Arm CPUs To Servers
There are at least two – and possibly more – paths to make Arm processors competitive with the Intel and now AMD X86 incumbent processors in the datacenter. …
The Other Way To Bring Arm CPUs To Servers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Routing Boosts Switching As The Lines Between Them Blur
With the dividing line between switching and routing blurring among the hyperscalers and cloud builders, it is no wonder to us that switching is growing as Ethernet switch ASICs get more and more routing functions and true Ethernet routing has remained more or less flat in the past five years. …
Routing Boosts Switching As The Lines Between Them Blur was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Amping Up The Arm Server Roadmap
Competition in and of itself does not directly drive innovation – customer needs that might be met by some other product is really what makes suppliers hop to and get the lead out. …
Amping Up The Arm Server Roadmap was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Broadcom Launches Another Tomahawk Into The Datacenter
If hyperscalers, cloud builders, HPC centers, enterprises, and both OEMs and ODMs like one thing, it is a steady drumbeat of technology enhancements to drive their datacenters forward. …
Broadcom Launches Another Tomahawk Into The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Operating A Campus-Wide HPC Center Like An Enterprise
For those involved with large-scale system planning, design, and procurement for campus-wide supercomputers, the target is balance. …
Operating A Campus-Wide HPC Center Like An Enterprise was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Everybody Has Big Data – How To Cope With It
Enterprises are awash in data, and though many are tempted to save it all for later analysis – after all it worked for Google for many years – the store then analyze approach is poorly suited to environments with data sources that never stop. …
Everybody Has Big Data – How To Cope With It was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Looking Ahead To Marvell’s Future ThunderX Processors
If you are going to take on Intel in server processors, you have to play the same kind of long game that Intel itself played as it jumped from the desktop to the datacenter. …
Looking Ahead To Marvell’s Future ThunderX Processors was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Datacenters Are Hungry For Servers Again
Server consumption is a pretty good proxy for how enterprises of all shapes and sizes feel about their particular business. …
Datacenters Are Hungry For Servers Again was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Time Is Always Money, Especially With HPC On The Cloud
Systems management has always been in a race to catch up with the innovation in systems, and it is always nipping at the heels. …
Time Is Always Money, Especially With HPC On The Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Finally: AWS Gives Servers A Real Shot In The Arm
Finally, we get to test out how well or poorly a well-designed Arm server chip will do in the datacenter. …
Finally: AWS Gives Servers A Real Shot In The Arm was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Taking The PCI Express To Malleable Systems
It took decades for server virtualization to go mainstream, making their way from hardware and software partitions on mainframes three decades ago down to proprietary and Unix systems two decades ago to X86 servers with VMware, XenServer, Microsoft, and Red Hat all doing their part. …
Taking The PCI Express To Malleable Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Bending The Supercomputing Cost Curve Down
One of the recurring themes at the recent HPC Day event that we hosted ahead of the SC19 supercomputing conference in Denver was that capability class supercomputers are getting more and more expensive. …
Bending The Supercomputing Cost Curve Down was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Holding The Line In The Enterprise
The profit pools in datacenter infrastructure are a bit like oases in the desert: There are a lot of miles between them, and some of them turn out to be mirages. …
Holding The Line In The Enterprise was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Talking System Architecture With AMD CTO Mark Papermaster
It is funny to think that in a certain light, AMD has Big Blue to thank for its resurgence in the datacenter. …
Talking System Architecture With AMD CTO Mark Papermaster was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Doing The Math On Future Exascale Supercomputers
We are not shy of playing guessing games here at The Next Platform, as you all well know. …
Doing The Math On Future Exascale Supercomputers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.