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IBM Readies Power9 “Bandwidth Beast” Kicker
Big Blue has become a big believer in using differential signaling to attach everything – and we mean everything – to the processor. …
IBM Readies Power9 “Bandwidth Beast” Kicker was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Innovium Boosts Switch Chip Performance Without A Process Shrink
Bringing a new switch ASIC to market is no easy task, and it isn’t cheap, either. …
Innovium Boosts Switch Chip Performance Without A Process Shrink was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When Diverse Network ASICs Meet A Unifying Operating System
It has been two decades since Juniper Networks, then the big upstart rival to Cisco Systems and others as the dot-com boom was rising towards its crescendo several years hence, took FreeBSD Unix and turned it into a network operating system that spanned both routers and switches. …
When Diverse Network ASICs Meet A Unifying Operating System was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AMD Revs Up HPC Variant As Rome Chips Ramp
AMD is definitely on a roll in the United States for future exascale systems, having won deals at both Oak Ridge National laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for their respective “Frontier” and “El Capitan” systems. …
AMD Revs Up HPC Variant As Rome Chips Ramp was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Eating The Interconnect Alphabet Soup With Intel’s CXL
The dividing lines between system buses, system intraconnects, and system interconnects are getting more blurry all the time. …
Eating The Interconnect Alphabet Soup With Intel’s CXL was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Everyone Will Want Higher Bandwidth And More Ports – Eventually
The speed bumps with switch ASICs are coming fast and furious these days, and the datacenter is no longer dominated by the big switch incumbents such as Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks, which made their own chips, switches, and operating systems, and the networking divisions of server OEMs like Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which made some of their own gear – including ASICs – and acquired other companies to help build out their networking businesses – who sometimes also did their own ASICs. …
Everyone Will Want Higher Bandwidth And More Ports – Eventually was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Networking Needs More Than Incremental Innovation
The apocryphal Chinese curse – “May you live in interesting times” – certainly applies to the datacenter of the early 21st century. …
Networking Needs More Than Incremental Innovation was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Microsoft Brings IBM Power Iron To Azure Cloud
Under most circumstances, the major public cloud builders would like to use their own iron in their datacenters. …
Microsoft Brings IBM Power Iron To Azure Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Inside HPE’s Gen-Z Switch Fabric
Even before it launched a $1.3 billion acquisition of Cray back in May, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has had exascale aspirations. …
Inside HPE’s Gen-Z Switch Fabric was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Inevitable Slowdown In Server Spending
It had to happen sooner or later, and really, the wonder is that it hasn’t already happened, given the nature of the infrastructure buildouts at hyperscalers and cloud builders, the skittishness of enterprises due to the trade war between the United States and China, the uncertainty in Europe over the British exit, and general concern with macroeconomic issues because it has now been almost twelve years since the last recession. …
The Inevitable Slowdown In Server Spending was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Nvidia Shows Off Tech Chops With RC18 Inference Chip
It would be convenient for everyone – chip makers and those who are running machine learning workloads – if training and inference could be done on the same device. …
Nvidia Shows Off Tech Chops With RC18 Inference Chip was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
To Be Always Surfing On Tectonic Shifts
If you think about it for a minute, it is amazing that any of the old-time IT suppliers, like IBM and Hewlett Packard, and to a certain extent now Microsoft and Dell, have persisted in the datacenter for decades or, in the case of Big Blue, for more than a century. …
To Be Always Surfing On Tectonic Shifts was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Big Blue Open Sources Power Chip Instruction Set
It has been a long time coming, and it might have been better if this had been done a decade ago. …
Big Blue Open Sources Power Chip Instruction Set was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
The Future Of Networks Depends On Hyperscalers And Big Clouds
If you want for the rapid pace of innovation in datacenter networking to continue, then you had better hope that the hyperscalers and major public cloud builders don’t run out of money. …
The Future Of Networks Depends On Hyperscalers And Big Clouds was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
Getting Around The Limits Of Memory To Accelerate Applications
Forget in-memory computing for the moment because it requires a complete re-architecting of applications and most of the time the underlying hardware, too. …
Getting Around The Limits Of Memory To Accelerate Applications was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
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 .