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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 .
The Datacenter Impact Of The GlobalFoundries 7 Nanometer Spike
Making money from sand is not as easy as making money from oil, and the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, which has been assembling the GlobalFoundries chip making giant for the past decade is finding that out the hard way and as a consequence, the company is backing off on its development of 7 nanometer manufacturing techniques, which included a double whammy of traditional immersion lithography techniques as well as a move towards bleeding-edge extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology. …
The Datacenter Impact Of The GlobalFoundries 7 Nanometer Spike was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Slashing HPC Energy Costs With Automated, Dynamic Optimization
A high-end supercomputer consumes nearly as much energy as a small city, which creates significant budgetary concerns for organizations that deploy and manage these systems. …
Slashing HPC Energy Costs With Automated, Dynamic Optimization was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Fujitsu’s A64FX Arm Chip Waves The HPC Banner High
The processing world would be a whole lot less diverse and interesting if it were not for a healthy amount of nationalism. …
Fujitsu’s A64FX Arm Chip Waves The HPC Banner High was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The Skinny On Future Cascade Lake Xeons
The changes to the Xeon server chip architecture and the consequent server platforms are going to be a bit thin here in 2018 after a pretty big jump with the “Skylake” Xeon SP processors and the related “Purley” platforms that launched back in July 2017. …
The Skinny On Future Cascade Lake Xeons was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Dell Moves One Step Closer To Composable With PowerEdge MX
There is a certain level of impatience in the IT industry to create truly composable infrastructure from disaggregated compute, storage, and networking. …
Dell Moves One Step Closer To Composable With PowerEdge MX was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Securing The Server, Inside And Out
Computing is hard enough, but the sophistication and proliferation of attacks on IT infrastructure, from the firewall moat surrounding the corporate network all the way down into the guts of the operating system kernel and deep into the speculative execution units on the physical processor, make the task of computing – with confidence – doubly difficult. …
Securing The Server, Inside And Out was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Nvidia’s Datacenter Growth Beats Moore’s Law Big Time
Moore’s Law is effectively boosting compute capability by a factor of ten over a five year span, as Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang reminded Wall Street this week when talking about the graphics chip maker’s second quarter of fiscal 2019 financial results. …
Nvidia’s Datacenter Growth Beats Moore’s Law Big Time was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Argonne Leverages HPC And Machine Learning To Accelerate Science
In 2021, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) is planning to deploy Aurora A21, a new Intel-Cray system, slated to be the first exascale supercomputer in the United States. …
Argonne Leverages HPC And Machine Learning To Accelerate Science was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
IBM Finishes Power9 Systems Rollout With Big Iron
Sometimes, a workload needs more memory, more compute, or more I/O than is available in the two socket server that has been the standard pretty much since the dot-com boom two decades ago. …
IBM Finishes Power9 Systems Rollout With Big Iron was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Living In The SmartNIC Future
Getting processing closer to data is going to be one of the major themes in compute in the next decade, and we know this because for the past decade this is precisely what the big hyperscalers and cloud builders have been doing. …
Living In The SmartNIC Future was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Compute Is The Boon And The Bane Of Supercomputing
Compute drives supercomputing, and networking is the chassis and storage just comes along for the ride. …
Compute Is The Boon And The Bane Of Supercomputing was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Why The World Needs Another Network Operating System
If the world doesn’t need another thing, one of those things that it doesn’t need is probably another switch operating system. …
Why The World Needs Another Network Operating System was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Rescaling to Meet the Needs of HPC Cloud
It has taken time and a lot of changes in the industry, but HPC in the cloud might actually be something that can work not just technically, but as a business model that is reasonable and sustainable. …
Rescaling to Meet the Needs of HPC Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Intel Makes Money Hand Over Fist In The Datacenter
Despite the increasing competitive pressures that Intel is feeling in the datacenter and very serious issues that the company is having ramping up its 10 nanometer manufacturing processes, the datacenter business at Intel were booming in the second quarter, helping to drive a record second quarter and what is looking like will be a record full year for the chip maker. …
Intel Makes Money Hand Over Fist In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The End Of Xeon Phi – It’s Xeon And Maybe GPUs From Here
To a certain extent, the “Knights” family of parallel processors, sold under the brand name Xeon Phi, by Intel were exactly what they were supposed to be: A non-mainstream product that tried out a different architecture than its mainstream Xeon family of server processors and that was aimed at the high performance computing jet set that is, by definition, supposed to take risks on new architectures. …
The End Of Xeon Phi – It’s Xeon And Maybe GPUs From Here was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Getting All Zen About AMD’s Datacenter Business
Imagine, if you will, that your two biggest rivals were Intel and Nvidia, and that you had to fight a two front war to storm the datacenter. …
Getting All Zen About AMD’s Datacenter Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The Many Machine Learning Engines Of Google
If there is anything the hyperscalers have taught us, it is the value of homogeneity and scale in an enterprise. …
The Many Machine Learning Engines Of Google was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .