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How Cray Makes Ethernet Suited For HPC And AI With Slingshot
Last fall, supercomputer maker Cray announced that it was getting back to making high performance cluster interconnects after a six year hiatus, but the company had already been working on its “Rosetta” switch ASIC for the Slingshot interconnect for quite a while before it started talking publicly about it. …
How Cray Makes Ethernet Suited For HPC And AI With Slingshot was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Nvidia Readies For Battle In The Datacenter In 2020
If you were expecting Nvidia to start talking about its future “Einstein” GPUs for Tesla accelerated computing soon just because AMD is getting ready to roll out “Navi” GPUs next year and Intel is working on its Xe GPU cards for delivery next year, too, you are going to have to wait a bit longer. …
Nvidia Readies For Battle In The Datacenter In 2020 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
A Deep Dive Into AMD’s Rome Epyc Architecture
In any chip design, the devil – and the angel – is always in the details. …
A Deep Dive Into AMD’s Rome Epyc Architecture was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Cray Runs The Exascale Table In The United States
After a long wait, now we know. All three of the initial exascale-class supercomputer systems being funded by the US Department of Energy through its CORAL-2 procurement are going to be built by Cray, with that venerable maker of supercomputers being the prime contractor on two of them. …
Cray Runs The Exascale Table In The United States was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
AMD Doubles Down – And Up – With Rome Epyc Server Chips
It has been a long time coming: The day when AMD can put a processor up against any Xeon that Intel can deliver and absolutely compete on technology, price, predictability of availability, and consistency of roadmap looking ahead. …
AMD Doubles Down – And Up – With Rome Epyc Server Chips was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Talking High Bandwidth With IBM’s Power10 Architect
As the lead engineer on the Power10 processor, Bill Starke already knows what most of us have to guess about Big Blue’s next iteration in a processor family that has been in the enterprise market in one form or another for nearly three decades. …
Talking High Bandwidth With IBM’s Power10 Architect was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Intel Goes Barefoot As It Leaves The Omni-Path
The handwriting has been on the wall for some time now, but Intel has quietly dropped its 200 Gb/sec Omni-Path networking from its roadmaps and will be using other technology for interconnects going forward. …
Intel Goes Barefoot As It Leaves The Omni-Path was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Rome Is The Fulcrum Of AMD’s Datacenter Pivot
The good news about having a diverse product line, as chip maker AMD increasingly does, is that the company operates like a multi-cylinder engine and that not all of the lines need to be firing full bore for the business to accelerate down its roadmap. …
Rome Is The Fulcrum Of AMD’s Datacenter Pivot was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Real Competition Puts Intel Data Center Group In The Pinchers
There has never been a better time to wait to buy processors for servers, and in the second quarter of this year, based on the financial results that Intel has turned in, many companies did just that. …
Real Competition Puts Intel Data Center Group In The Pinchers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The Switch-Router War Is Over, And Hyperscalers Won
It is hard to say what will happen first: Switching and routing will merge, or an independent networking operating system that can do both will emerge. …
The Switch-Router War Is Over, And Hyperscalers Won was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Big Blue’s Red Hat Brings A Big Change Of Heart
Perhaps, many years hence, we will call the company that, more than any other, created the enterprise computing environment Big Purple now that it has acquired the company that made open source software in the enterprise safe, sane, and affordable. …
Big Blue’s Red Hat Brings A Big Change Of Heart was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Counting The Cost Of Scaling HPC Applications
It is very rare indeed to get benchmark data on HPC applications that shows it scaling over a representative number of nodes, and it is never possible to get cost allocations presented that allow for price/performance comparisons to be made for clusters of different physical sizes and the increase in throughput that more scale brings. …
Counting The Cost Of Scaling HPC Applications was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Bringing Big Bandwidth To Large Enterprises
Hyperscalers change their datacenters – by which we mean whole generations of servers, storage, and switching – like regular enterprises upgrade server platforms. …
Bringing Big Bandwidth To Large Enterprises was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Inside Nvidia’s DGX SuperPOD Cluster
GPU chip maker Nvidia doesn’t just make the devices that end up in some of the largest supercomputers in the world. …
Inside Nvidia’s DGX SuperPOD Cluster was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Doing The Math: The Reality Of HPC And AI Convergence
Throughout the many different types of system architecture in the past six decades, one thing has always remained true: Hardware always gets ahead of software, and rather than be too annoyed about it, there is another thing that is also true. …
Doing The Math: The Reality Of HPC And AI Convergence was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Nvidia Makes Arm A Peer To X86 And Power For GPU Acceleration
Creating the Tesla GPU compute platform has taken Nvidia the better part of a decade and a half, and it has culminated in a software stack comprised of various HPC and AI frameworks, the CUDA parallel programming environment, compilers from Nvidia’s PGI division and their OpenACC extensions as well as open source GCC compilers, and various other tools that together account for tens of millions of lines of code and tens of thousands of individual APIs. …
Nvidia Makes Arm A Peer To X86 And Power For GPU Acceleration was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Supercomputing Coiled To Spring To Exascale
If you want to rank in the world of supercomputing – as national and state governments as well as academic and research institutions most certainly do to prove their worth for research and development – then you need to have at least a petaflops ante now to play the game. …
Supercomputing Coiled To Spring To Exascale was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The Challenge Machine Learning Brings To Storage
Given our focus on the systems-level of AI machine building, storage was a big topic of discussion at the sold-out Next AI Platform event we hosted in May. …
The Challenge Machine Learning Brings To Storage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Intel Finally Serious About Switching with Barefoot Networks Buy
In one fell swoop, Intel has finally filled a giant hole in its switching product line by acquiring upstart Barefoot Networks, the creator of the P4 programming language for networking devices and the “Tofino” family of Ethernet switch ASICs that make use of it. …
Intel Finally Serious About Switching with Barefoot Networks Buy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Future Kubernetes Will Mimic What Facebook Already Does
If you want to see what the future of the Kubernetes container management system will look like, then the closed source, homegrown Tupperware container control system that Facebook has been using and evolving since 2011 – before Docker containers and Kubernetes were around – might be a good place to find inspiration. …
Future Kubernetes Will Mimic What Facebook Already Does was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .