Cray, AMD Tag Team On 1.5 Exaflops “Frontier” Supercomputer

The competition for the compute engines in hybrid HPC and AI supercomputer systems is heating up, and it is beginning to look a bit like back to the future with Cray on the rise and AMD also revitalized. …

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Starting Thinking About AI Workflows, Not Just AI Platforms

Hardware is the most tangible part of any system, and it is the aspect of the system that tends to get the most attention. …

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AWS Is Now The Largest Systems Business In The World

Considering all of the hundreds of different moving parts, as gauged by different types of features and services, that Amazon Web Services delivers on its public cloud, and the ever-increasing complexity of the AWS platform, it is pretty amazing that the cloud juggernaut can delivery pretty consistently growing revenue growth. …

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Common Componentry Is The Key to Edge Architectures

The edge has caught the imagination of IT vendors, who envision a place well outside of the confines of the central datacenter but not quite in the cloud where the vast amounts of data that are being generated by billions of devices, systems and sensors can be quickly captured, stored, processed and analyzed in as close to real time as possible. …

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Is That Canary In The Datacenter Feeling Dizzy?

The market for servers used to be a lot more predictable in the past, with a portion of the tens millions of companies worldwide buying machinery in their own cycles that more or less coincided with the global gross domestic product. …

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Stacking Up Cascade Lake Xeons Against AMD Epyc For HPC

In theory, customers running HPC simulation and modeling applications want to cram as much compute in as small of a space as they can. …

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The Long View On The Intel Xeon Architecture

Incremental change is the secret to the success of the human race, and it is also its most difficult aspect in some regards. …

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Big Data In Little Spaces: Hadoop And Spark At The Edge

The advent of scalable analytics in the form of Hadoop and Spark seems to be moving to the end of the Technology Hype Cycle. …

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Aurora Exascale AI Supercomputer To Light A Path In The Cancer Fight

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest incidence data, cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, exceeded only by heart disease. …

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Back To The HPC Future With Next Generation AMD Epyc Processors

By its very nature, high performance computing is conflicted. On the one hand, HPC belongs on the bleeding edge, trying out new ideas and testing new technologies. …

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MemVerge Converged Storage Makes Clever Use Of Optane Memory

Now that Optane Persistent Memory Modules, based on bit-addressable 3D XPoint memory, are finally available from Intel, everybody in the storage business is trying to figure out how to best make use of them. …

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Prying Open The Lid On Intel’s Multichip Cascade Lake-AP

Imagine for a second that you are Intel.

The few server CPU makers that remain in the market – AMD, IBM, Marvell, and Ampere – have more memory controllers on their sockets than you do. …

Prying Open The Lid On Intel’s Multichip Cascade Lake-AP was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .

Intel Pushes Xeon SP To The Next Level With Cascade Lake

With the launch of the “Cascade Lake” processors, the second generation of its Xeon SP family of server CPUs, the fullness of the “Purley” server platform that we heard about way back in 2015 is finally being delivered. …

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Ampere Arm Makes The Packet Processor Rite Of Passage

Any aspiring server processor architecture seems to have a new rite of passage, and that is to be deployed in the Packet bare metal cloud. … “Ampere Arm Makes The Packet Processor Rite Of Passage”

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AWS Adds More Epyc Compute To EC2

For the first decade that Amazon Web Services was in operation, its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) raw compute was available in precisely one flavor: Intel Xeon. … “AWS Adds More Epyc Compute To EC2”

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A First Peek At Cascade Lake Xeons Ahead Of Launch

It is no secret that Intel has been working to get its “Cascade Lake” processors, the second generation of its Xeon SP family to market as early as possible this year and to ramp sales at the same time that X86 server rival AMD is expected to get its second generation “Rome” Epyc processors in the field. … “A First Peek At Cascade Lake Xeons Ahead Of Launch”

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How Facebook Might Find Nervana For Machine Learning Training

There is a rumor going around that a certain hyperscaler is going to be augmenting its GPU-based machine learning training and will be adopting Intel’s Nervana Neural Network Processor (NNP) for at least some of its workloads. … “How Facebook Might Find Nervana For Machine Learning Training”

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Relentless Competition Drives Down Ethernet Switch Costs

If you want to see what real competition might look like at some point in the future of the server racket, look no further than the Ethernet switch market, where switch ASICs and the companies that build switches alike have to fight for every dollar and make it up in volume every year without pause. … “Relentless Competition Drives Down Ethernet Switch Costs”

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The Still Expanding Market For GPU Compute

At this point in the history of the IT business, it is a foregone conclusion that accelerated computing, perhaps in a more diverse manner than many of us anticipated, is the future both in the datacenter and at the edge. … “The Still Expanding Market For GPU Compute”

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On The Hot Seat In The Hyperscale Datacenter

As one of the dominant hyperscalers in the world, Microsoft is out there on the cutting edge, driving efficiencies on every front it can in server, storage, switching, software, and datacenter design. … “On The Hot Seat In The Hyperscale Datacenter”

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