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Oak Ridge Trials Arm-GPU Combo On HPC Testbed
The GPU has become a standard platform for accelerating high performance computing workloads, at least for those that have had their code tweaked to support acceleration at all. …
Oak Ridge Trials Arm-GPU Combo On HPC Testbed was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AMD Takes A Bigger Bite Out Of The Datacenter
It is hard to take on either Intel or Nvidia in their respectively dominant CPU and GPU markets, and credit is due to AMD for taking on both companies at the same time to try to carve itself a larger slice of the datacenter pie. …
AMD Takes A Bigger Bite Out Of The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
IBM Bookends AI With New Accelerated Power9 System
Like the large enterprises they sell gear to, the big OEMs are a conservative lot and they take a paced, methodical approach to introducing new technologies into the datacenter. …
IBM Bookends AI With New Accelerated Power9 System was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Intel Fills In The First Half Server Pothole – And Then Some
Let’s face it. As far as we knew, given how poorly the server market was doing in the final quarter of 2018 and the first two quarters of 2019, we had no idea how well or poorly it might end up. …
Intel Fills In The First Half Server Pothole – And Then Some was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The GPU Is The Worst – And Best – Thing To Happen To The FPGA
A decade or so before the GPU started storming the datacenter thanks to Nvidia’s Tesla GPU accelerators and their CUDA parallel programming environment and CPU offload model, FPGAs were starting to gain traction as accelerators in their own right. …
The GPU Is The Worst – And Best – Thing To Happen To The FPGA was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The University of Michigan Gets Serious About Supercomputing ROI
The University of Michigan is one of the top academic centers in the United States with over $1.5 …
The University of Michigan Gets Serious About Supercomputing ROI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Three Eras Of Programmable Logic
The field programmable gate array has always been a different sort of animal in the semiconductor market. …
The Three Eras Of Programmable Logic was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Cache Is King
The gap between the performance of processors, broadly defined, and the performance of DRAM main memory, also broadly defined, has been an issue for at least three decades when the gap really started to open up. …
Cache Is King was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Covering All The Compute Bases In A Heterogeneous Datacenter
Intel has spent more than three decades evolving from the dominant provider of CPUs for personal computers to the dominant supplier of processors for servers in the datacenter. …
Covering All The Compute Bases In A Heterogeneous Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Inevitability Of FPGAs In The Datacenter
You don’t have to be a chip designer to program an FPGA, just like you don’t have to be a C++ programmer to code in Java, but it probably helps in both cases if you want to do them well. …
The Inevitability Of FPGAs In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
On The Spearpoint Of FPGA And The Cloud
Sometimes markets need a particular technology and they are impatient for it, and sometimes technologies get ahead of the immediate needs of customers and their creators have to hang on until the time is right. …
On The Spearpoint Of FPGA And The Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
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.