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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 .
The Transformation Of The Next HPE Continues
There are two camps of server makers in the world. Those that are aimed at hyperscalers and cloud builders, which buy in lots of 50,000 or 100,000 servers and which therefore have enough leverage for the tail to wag the manufacturing dogs. …
The Transformation Of The Next HPE Continues was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The Long Road Back To Utility Pricing For Systems
One of the big problems of servers, storage, and networking, oddly enough, is that in the individual elements in which they are sold, there is a perception that they are not all that expensive. …
The Long Road Back To Utility Pricing For Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Google Wants Cloud Services Platform To Borg Your Datacenter
It has been our position from the beginning, when Google first open sourced the Kubernetes container controller, that it wanted for this to be the controller that ruled the datacenter. …
Google Wants Cloud Services Platform To Borg Your Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
ARM Goes To War In The Datacenter With “Aries” Designs
When Arm Holdings, the division of the Softbank conglomerate that designs and licenses the core component of the processor architecture that bears its name, launched its Neoverse revamping of the Arm architecture for the datacenter and the edge last October, the company put the architecture on a strict annual cadence and promised to deliver 30 percent performance increases at the system level with each generation. …
ARM Goes To War In The Datacenter With “Aries” Designs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Ethernet And The Future Of Data Networking
The need to host, process, and transmit more data, in less time and more securely, is putting huge strain on existing datacenter network, server, and storage architectures, with the demands of specific applications like artificial intelligence, machine learning, image recognition, and data analytics exacerbating the problem. …
Ethernet And The Future Of Data Networking was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The Computing Needs Of Earth Are Not Yet Satisfied
To a certain way of looking at it, Nvidia has always been engaged in the high performance computing business and it has always been subject to the same kinds of cyclical waves that affect makers of supercomputers and enterprise systems. …
The Computing Needs Of Earth Are Not Yet Satisfied was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
IBM Mashes Up PowerAI And Watson Machine Learning Stacks
Earlier in this decade, when the hyperscalers and the academics that run with them were building machine learning frameworks to transpose all kinds of data from one format to another – speech to text, text to speech, image to text, video to text, and so on – they were doing so not just for scientific curiosity. …
IBM Mashes Up PowerAI And Watson Machine Learning Stacks was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Shasta Sets Up Cray For Commercial HPC And Supercomputing Expansion
If you look at the very long history of Cray, the company has done a remarkable job expanding its market, not just participating in it. …
Shasta Sets Up Cray For Commercial HPC And Supercomputing Expansion was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
IBM Puffs Up Power Iron On Its Public Cloud
IBM, which arguably has the largest remaining big iron server business in the world, is one step closer to making systems based on its own Power processors peers to the Xeon-based machinery that utterly dominates its IBM Cloud public cloud. …
IBM Puffs Up Power Iron On Its Public Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
PCI-Express Lends Server Composability A Hand
Applications do not need to use all elements of a system all the time, and usually not all at the same time for that matter. …
PCI-Express Lends Server Composability A Hand was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Will The Harmonic Convergence Of HPC And AI Last?
History and economics – as if you could separate the two – are burgeoning with examples of products being developed for one task and then being used, perhaps after some tweaking, for an entirely new and usually unexpected task. …
Will The Harmonic Convergence Of HPC And AI Last? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
When Does AWS Break Through $100 Billion?
While there is no question that Amazon Web Services is the largest and most profitable public cloud on planet earth, and that it provides the best subsidy imaginable for a cut-throat online retail business that is its parent company, AWS has not taken over the entire IT world any more than Amazon has become the sole place to buy stuff. …
When Does AWS Break Through $100 Billion? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Acquisition Rumors Abound As Mellanox Rings Up Record Sales
There hardly seems to be a month that doesn’t go by without a different IT supplier being rumored to want to acquire network chip and system provider Mellanox Technologies, which has an intense focus on the high end, scale out, low latency segment of the datacenter switching market. …
Acquisition Rumors Abound As Mellanox Rings Up Record Sales was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Hyperscaler And Cloud Server Feeding Frenzy Abates
For the first time in a very long time, and even including the Great Recession, chip maker Intel booked less revenue in the fourth quarter of the year than it did in the third quarter of that same year. …
Hyperscaler And Cloud Server Feeding Frenzy Abates was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Aspiring To Be The Windows, Not The Linux, Of Networks
Anyone operating at network at scale almost has to, by definition, hack together their own network operating system. …
Aspiring To Be The Windows, Not The Linux, Of Networks was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Unified Memory: The Final Piece Of The GPU Programming Puzzle
Support for unified memory across CPUs and GPUs in accelerated computing systems is the final piece of a programming puzzle that we have been assembling for about ten years now. …
Unified Memory: The Final Piece Of The GPU Programming Puzzle was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .