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Taking A Deeper Dive Into Marvell’s “Triton” ThunderX3
Say what you will, but among the many vendors that have tried to break into the datacenter with Arm server chips, Marvell, by virtue of the hard work done by Cavium, which it acquired, and Broadcom, which sold its “Vulcan” design to Cavium when it exited the business, has been the most successful in terms of shipments and ecosystem. …
Taking A Deeper Dive Into Marvell’s “Triton” ThunderX3 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
IBM Brings An Architecture Gun To A Chip Knife Fight
For the past several years here at The Next Platform, as we have been pondering what IBM might do with the future Power10 processor, we have been feinting here and there with our analytical pen, trying to suss out precisely what Big Blue might be up to, particularly with the unique memory architecture that it has been working on for more than a decade. …
IBM Brings An Architecture Gun To A Chip Knife Fight was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Ticking And Tocking Of Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP
It has been a long time since Intel changed its manufacturing process – what it used to call a “tick” – and the microarchitecture and architecture of a processor design – what it used to call a “tock” – at the same time. …
The Ticking And Tocking Of Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Staking The Claim For The Real DPU
As we all know well, the various elements computer architecture swing on their own pendulums, with consolidated being at the center and distributed being at the opposite ends of the arc. …
Staking The Claim For The Real DPU was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Tech Tricks That Make PCI-Express 6.0 And Beyond Possible
Multiplying things by two and putting them on a roadmap is easy, even if it does take a lot of courage to do that. …
The Tech Tricks That Make PCI-Express 6.0 And Beyond Possible was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
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.