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Switch ASIC Thoroughbred Sprouts Wings To Attain Unicorn Status
It takes money to make money, and if you want to break into the switch ASIC business in the datacenter, even if you are a low-cost designer of such chips, you had better have some rich friends to help the business take off. …
Switch ASIC Thoroughbred Sprouts Wings To Attain Unicorn Status was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Datacenter Is The New Unit Of Compute, Open Networking Is How To Automate It
Datacenters have evolved from physical servers, to virtualized systems, and now to composable infrastructure where resources such as storage and persistent memory are disaggregated from the server. …
Datacenter Is The New Unit Of Compute, Open Networking Is How To Automate It was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Dollars And Sense Of Nvidia Paying A Fortune For Arm
Back in April, when we were talking with Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang about the datacenter being the new unit of compute, we explained that we were always disappointed with the fact that Nvidia did not bring its “Denver” hybrid Arm CPU and Nvidia GPU, previewed way back in January 2011, to market, and said further we really wanted Nvidia to redefine what a CPU is by breaking its memory and I/O truly free from its compute. …
The Dollars And Sense Of Nvidia Paying A Fortune For Arm was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Feeding The Datacenter Inference Beast A Heavy Diet Of FPGAs
Any workload that has a complex dataflow with intricate data needs and a requirement for low latency should probably at least consider an FPGA for the job. …
Feeding The Datacenter Inference Beast A Heavy Diet Of FPGAs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Balancing AMD’s Future On The Edge Of A Silicon Wafer
The hardest job at any chip designer that doesn’t actually own its own foundry – and maybe even those that do – is figuring out what wafer start commitment level to make for a new compute engine in the datacenter. …
Balancing AMD’s Future On The Edge Of A Silicon Wafer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Big Blue Should Start Believing In Big Iron Again
There isn’t really a systems business so much as a collection of them, all unique and all facing their own particular challenges. …
Big Blue Should Start Believing In Big Iron Again was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Intel Tests Its Datacenter Teflon With 7 Nanometer Delay
There is such a thing as a string of bad luck, but we have always believed that luck is the residue of design, either good or bad. …
Intel Tests Its Datacenter Teflon With 7 Nanometer Delay was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
One Network Operating System To Rule Them All
Networks may not be the most expensive thing in the datacenter – they typically comprise about 10 percent to 15 percent of the cost of a distributed system, including cables, transceivers, switches, and routers – but they are without a doubt the most complex part of distributed systems. …
One Network Operating System To Rule Them All was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Get The Picture With Video Acceleration In The Datacenter
With all of us now learning to live, work, and learn from home, it is becoming apparent how critical video streaming is as a tool to support our new normal. …
Get The Picture With Video Acceleration In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Puffing Up Computational Fluid Dynamics On The Cloud
Huge dataset sizes and computationally intense demands of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) workloads are motivating some organizations to seek highly elastic HPC solutions with enormous memory volumes. …
Puffing Up Computational Fluid Dynamics On The Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Big Blue Open Sources The Core Inside BlueGene/Q Supercomputers
Earlier this month, we were talking to the James Kulina, the new executive director of the OpenPower Foundation, which is the organization created by IBM and Google back in the summer of 2013 to create a community around the Power architecture. …
Big Blue Open Sources The Core Inside BlueGene/Q Supercomputers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The New General And New Purpose In Computing
The term “general purpose” in regards to compute is an evolving one. …
The New General And New Purpose In Computing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Battle For Enterprise Compute Begins In The Cloud
If the hyperscalers are a crystal ball in which we see the far-off future of compute, storage, and networking writ large and ahead of the mainstream, then the public cloud builders are a mirror in which we see the more immediate needs and desires of enterprises. …
The Battle For Enterprise Compute Begins In The Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Accelerated Databases In The Fast Lane
Hardware accelerated databases are not new things. More than twenty years ago, Netezza was founded and created a hybrid hardware architecture that ran PostgreSQL on a big, wonking NUMA server running Linux and accelerated certain functions with adjunct accelerators that were themselves hybrid CPU-FPGA server blades that also stored the data. …
Accelerated Databases In The Fast Lane was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Ampere Reveals “Quicksilver” Altra Lineup, 128-Core “Mystique” Kicker
There are two Amperes in datacenter compute right now, and they are both gunning for Xeons. …
Ampere Reveals “Quicksilver” Altra Lineup, 128-Core “Mystique” Kicker was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Arm And Japan Get Their Day In The HPC Sun
There is a constant push and pull between budget and architecture in supercomputing, and the passing of time has not made anyone’s arms tired as yet on both sides of the bargaining table. …
Arm And Japan Get Their Day In The HPC Sun was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Conductor That Sets The Pace For Science At Oak Ridge
Every orchestra needs a conductor to keep everyone playing together on pace, and while a good conductor doesn’t need to know how to play every instrument well, they have to know how to play many instruments and also to understand how it all comes together to create a symphony. …
The Conductor That Sets The Pace For Science At Oak Ridge was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Taking A Deep Dive Into “Cooper Lake” Xeon SP Processors
Even before the coronavirus pandemic hit, Intel, the dominant maker of processors for servers on the planet, was rejiggering its product roadmaps behind the scenes in conjunction with its largest OEM partners as well the hyperscalers and large public cloud builders that drive about a third of its revenues these days. …
Taking A Deep Dive Into “Cooper Lake” Xeon SP Processors was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Great Scott: Spanning Supercomputing And Clouds
System architects that live in the Seattle area who don’t want to uproot their lives and move to California or Texas or New York or maybe possibly Illinois or Oregon or even overseas to Japan or China have a fairly small number of job opportunities. …
Great Scott: Spanning Supercomputing And Clouds was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Ever-Embiggening Humongous Document Database
Moving its eponymous NoSQL document database to the cloud and running it as a managed service has been a watershed event for MongoDB, which like a number of its peers in the broader database market are growing at the expense of relational databases that can’t scale as well for certain workloads. …
The Ever-Embiggening Humongous Document Database was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.