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Virtualization Is The Real Opportunity For Epyc
The fleet of servers in the enterprise datacenters of the world – distinct from hyperscalers, cloud builders, and HPC centers – are getting a bit long in the tooth. …
Virtualization Is The Real Opportunity For Epyc was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
How OpenStack Lassoes Yahoo’s 4 Million Server Cores
As one of the first hyperscalers in the world, Yahoo, part of the Oath conglomerate that also includes AOL and that is owned by telecom giant Verizon, knows a thing or two about running applications at extreme scale. …
How OpenStack Lassoes Yahoo’s 4 Million Server Cores was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Forging A Hybrid CPU-FPGA Supercomputer
It is hard to say for sure, but a very substantial part of the hard work in buying supercomputers and creating simulations and models that tell us about the real world around us gets done in thousands of academic research institutions worldwide. …
Forging A Hybrid CPU-FPGA Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Microsoft Focuses Azure More Tightly On HPC And AI
For any public cloud to succeed, it has to offer best of breed technologies reasonably close to the cutting edge and supporting the wide variety of compute that the enterprises of the world would otherwise acquire and run on premises. …
Microsoft Focuses Azure More Tightly On HPC And AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The Shape Of Supermicro Machine Learning Iron To Come
If it isn’t obvious, we like hardware here at The Next Platform. …
The Shape Of Supermicro Machine Learning Iron To Come was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The Graph Database Poised To Pounce On The Mainstream
Perhaps the most important decision that any company will ever make is how they intend to structure and store the information they will preserve to encapsulate the goods and services they provide to their customers. …
The Graph Database Poised To Pounce On The Mainstream was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
HPC And AI Can’t Compute Without Fast, Scalable Storage
By definition, HPC is always at the cutting edge of computing, driving innovations in processor, system, and software design that eventually find their way into more mainstream computing systems. …
HPC And AI Can’t Compute Without Fast, Scalable Storage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Arm Upstart Ampere Starts Chipping Away At Intel Xeons
When this is all done, Intel might have wished it had kept Renee James as president and chief executive officer, because Ampere, an Arm server chip startup that James has been running since this spring, wants a big piece of the Xeon datacenter business and it has the financial backing to start a price war that others can win and only Intel can lose. …
Arm Upstart Ampere Starts Chipping Away At Intel Xeons was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The Microserver, Redux And Reconsidered
If there is one rule of computing, is that it gets increasingly more expensive and more difficult to scale up performance within a single device or a single server node. …
The Microserver, Redux And Reconsidered was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Slicing Into The Post-K Supercomputer’s Tofu D Interconnect
Fujitsu has given us a peek at the future A64FX Arm server processor that it has forged for the future “Post-K” supercomputer that is being built by the Japanese government for the RIKEN laboratory, arguably the hotbed of HPC in the Land of the Rising Sun. …
Slicing Into The Post-K Supercomputer’s Tofu D Interconnect was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Nvidia Takes On The Inference Hordes With Turing GPUs
When it comes to machine learning, a lot of the attention in the past six years has focused on the training of neural networks and how the GPU accelerator radically improved the accuracy of networks, thanks to its large memory bandwidth and parallel compute capacity relative to CPUs. …
Nvidia Takes On The Inference Hordes With Turing GPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Fishing For Insight Into The Ocean Economy With HPC And AI
Historically and traditionally, academic supercomputing centers have been very open about the architecture and setup of their HPC systems, and it makes sense if you think about it. …
Fishing For Insight Into The Ocean Economy With HPC And AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Unifying Big Data And Machine Learning, Cisco Style
It doesn’t take a machine learning algorithm to predict that server makers are trying to cash in on the machine learning revolution at the major nexus points on the global Internet. …
Unifying Big Data And Machine Learning, Cisco Style was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
For Whom The Dell Toils
It has been nearly five years since Michael Dell lined up $24 billion in cash to take the IT company that bears his name private, and it has been nearly four years since Dell announced its mammoth $67 billion deal to acquire enterprise storage maker EMC and its server virtualization minion, VMware. …
For Whom The Dell Toils was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Are Hyperscalers And Clouds Builders Smashing Up An IT Pangea?
There are times when tectonic forces are at work in the IT world. …
Are Hyperscalers And Clouds Builders Smashing Up An IT Pangea? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Future Clouds Could Be Just Containers On Bare Metal
If operating systems or server firmware had better isolation and workload scheduling software, the last decade of server virtualization in the datacenter might never had happened. …
Future Clouds Could Be Just Containers On Bare Metal was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Nutanix Closes Big Deals, But Profits Still Elude
At some point, every company that has equity, venture, or public investors, has to start being profitable. …
Nutanix Closes Big Deals, But Profits Still Elude was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Intel’s Exascale Dataflow Engine Drops X86 And Von Neuman
With Moore’s Law running out of steam, the chip design wizards at Intel are going off the board to tackle the exascale challenge, and have dreamed up a new architecture that could in one fell swoop kill off the general purpose processor as a concept and the X86 instruction set as the foundation of modern computing. …
Intel’s Exascale Dataflow Engine Drops X86 And Von Neuman was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Fat And Hyperconverged Servers Save HPE’s Third Quarter
The ProLiant server is still the workhorse for plowing datacenters and sowing money at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, much as it was for the datacenter division at Compaq nearly two decades ago. …
Fat And Hyperconverged Servers Save HPE’s Third Quarter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
IBM Power Chips Blur The Lines To Memory And Accelerators
The lines between the CPU, its main memory, the memory of accelerators, and various external storage class memories have been blurring for years, and the smudging and smearing is no more pronounced than with IBM’s Power9 family of server processors. …
IBM Power Chips Blur The Lines To Memory And Accelerators was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .