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How To Benefit From Facebook’s New Network Fabric
In the modern distributed computing world, which is getting ever more disaggregated and some might say discombobulated, as every day passes, the architecture of the network in the datacenter is arguably the most important factor in determining if applications will perform well or not. … “How To Benefit From Facebook’s New Network Fabric”
How To Benefit From Facebook’s New Network Fabric was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Open Compute Takes Root Outside Of Hypercalers
When Facebook open sourced the hardware and datacenter designs of its very first homegrown datacenter in Prineville, Oregon nearly eight years ago, creating the Open Compute Project, it was an act of enlightened self-interest. …
Open Compute Takes Root Outside Of Hypercalers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Inside Facebook’s Future Machine Learning Platforms
The hyperscalers and cloud builders of the world build things that often look and feel like supercomputers if you squint your eyes a little, but if you look closely, you can often see some pretty big differences. …
Inside Facebook’s Future Machine Learning Platforms was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Summit Simulations to Change How we Drive and Explore Space
At the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, Professor Joe Oefelein, from the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech, is heading up a team of researchers working to solve the multifaceted grand challenge of simulating turbulent reactive flows in propulsion and power systems. …
Summit Simulations to Change How we Drive and Explore Space was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
NVM-Express Storage Goes Mainstream Over Ethernet Fabrics
Among the emerging themes for 2019 in the datacenter, one of them is that NVM-Express is finding its place in the storage hierarchy. …
NVM-Express Storage Goes Mainstream Over Ethernet Fabrics was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Voracious Appetite For Compute Is The New Normal
The hyperscalers and cloud builders of the world put a third of their installed base into the trash compactor every year because it is much less costly for them to keep upgrading machinery than it is to operate older stuff that eats space and burns power and cooling less efficiently. …
Voracious Appetite For Compute Is The New Normal was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Connecting The Dots On Why Nvidia Is Buying Mellanox
The related but distinct HPC and AI markets gave Nvidia a taste for building systems, and it looks like the company wants to control more of the hardware and systems software stack than it currently does given that it is willing to shell out $6.9 billion – just about all of the cash it has on hand – to acquire high-end networking equipment provider and long-time partner Mellanox Technologies. …
Connecting The Dots On Why Nvidia Is Buying Mellanox was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The New Bellwether For Enterprise IT
The amount of rejiggering among the IT vendors serving enterprise customers (as distinct from hyperscalers, cloud builders, and HPC centers) in the past decade and a half has been astounding. …
The New Bellwether For Enterprise IT was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
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 .