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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 .
Playing The Long Game In Systems
The secret to the longevity of any big corporation is a nearly constant process of reinvention. …
Playing The Long Game In Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
DOE’s E4S Software Stack Takes An Extreme Step Towards Exascale
For exascale hardware to be useful, systems software is going to have to be stacked up and optimized to bend that hardware to the will of applications. …
DOE’s E4S Software Stack Takes An Extreme Step Towards Exascale was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Peering Into The Future Of Machine Learning Hardware
If you want to see what the future of iron to support machine learning looks like, then perhaps the best place to look at what the hyperscalers and cloud builders who account for the vast majority of processing and applications in this field are deploying. …
Peering Into The Future Of Machine Learning Hardware was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Burying The OpenMP Versus OpenACC Hatchet
I have been frequently asked when the OpenMP and OpenACC directive APIs for parallel programming will merge, or when will one of them (usually OpenMP) will replace the other. …
Burying The OpenMP Versus OpenACC Hatchet was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Spanning The Database World With Google
If relational databases had just worked at scale to begin with, the IT sector would be a whole lot more boring and we wouldn’t be having conversation a conversation with Andrew Fikes, the vice president and Engineering Fellow at search engine, application, and cloud computing giant Google who has been instrumental in the creation of many of its databases and datastores since joining the company in 2001. …
Spanning The Database World With Google was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The Slow But Inevitable Shift To Cloudy Infrastructure
Architectural transitions for layers in the IT stack at hyperscalers can happen in a matter of years, and cloud builders and HPC centers can move at almost the same speed. …
The Slow But Inevitable Shift To Cloudy Infrastructure was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Two Thirds of The Way Home With Exascale Programming
To effectively make use of the level of concurrency in forthcoming exascale systems – hundreds of thousands of compute elements with millions of threads – requires some new thinking, both by programmers and in development tools. …
Two Thirds of The Way Home With Exascale Programming was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Huawei Jumps Into The Arm Server Chip Fray
Arm chip designers who make processors for mobile devices, such as Apple, Samsung, and Qualcomm, that do not have pre-existing server businesses have been skittish about entering the server fray with heftier versions of their Arm chips for datacenter compute. …
Huawei Jumps Into The Arm Server Chip Fray was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
IBM Bets On Samsung Fabs For Power10 Chips
When Globalfoundries decided to stop its development and rollout of both immersion lithography and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography at the 7 nanometer process node back in August, it looked as if IBM, second only to AMD as a server chip customer for its most advanced fab in Malta, New York, would be left in a lurch with its future Power processors. …
IBM Bets On Samsung Fabs For Power10 Chips was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Intel Unfolds Roadmaps For Future CPUs And GPUs
It would not have been an Architecture Day, as it was earlier this week at the former estate of Intel co-founder Robert Noyce, if the chip giant did not unfold a few pages in the roadmaps for its future CPUs and GPUs. …
Intel Unfolds Roadmaps For Future CPUs And GPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The Vital Engines Of Commerce
It took a very, very long time, but if current conditions persist, we could see a server market that rakes in more than $100 billion next year. …
The Vital Engines Of Commerce was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Intel Bets Heavily On Chip Stacking For The Future Of Compute
Innovation requires motivation, and there is nothing quite like a competitor trying to each your lunch to wake you up every morning to the reality of the situation. …
Intel Bets Heavily On Chip Stacking For The Future Of Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Talking Databases With Hadoop Creator Doug Cutting
The list of technologies that has been created because of the limitations of traditional, enterprise-grade relational databases is quite long, and yet these tried and true technologies persist at the heart of the modern enterprise. …
Talking Databases With Hadoop Creator Doug Cutting was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Exploring The Frontiers of Chemistry With HPC
The husband and wife team of Abdurrahman and Tülay Ateşin are experimental scientists who unexpectedly became involved with supercomputers when they moved to Texas in 2013. …
Exploring The Frontiers of Chemistry With HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Programmable Networks Get a Bigger Foot In The Datacenter Door
Barefoot Networks is on a mission, and it is a simple one: To give datacenter switches the same kind of openness and programmability that X86 servers have enjoyed for decades in the datacenter. …
Programmable Networks Get a Bigger Foot In The Datacenter Door was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Atos Rejiggers Sequana Supercomputers, Adds AMD Rome CPUs
The Sequana line of supercomputers from the Bull division of Atos offers some of the highest compute density available in the HPC realm. …
Atos Rejiggers Sequana Supercomputers, Adds AMD Rome CPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .