Over the past two decades, VMware has built an enviable enterprise customer base of half a million unique customers for its technology to virtualize X86 servers. …
VMware Always Sees A Cloudy Future was written by Daniel Robinson at .
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 .
Over the last few years we have detailed the explosion in new machine learning systems with the influx of novel architectures from deep learning chip startups to efforts from vendors and hyperscalers alike. …
One Deep Learning Benchmark to Rule Them All was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
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 .
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) will soon be home to a top-tier supercomputer with the 2019 arrival of the “Frontera” system. …
Cascade Lake at Heart of 2019 TACC Supercomputer was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Sometimes, if you stick around long enough in business, the market will come to you. …
System And Chip Architecture Shifts To A Heterogeneous World was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
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 .
It is intuitively obvious that most enterprises are want to embrace the public cloud, and they do not want to have a sole source of their cloudy compute, storage, and networking. …
Dell EMC Leans On VMware In The Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
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 .
The last decade, and few years in particular, have brought a bevy of new architectures to bear for a market keen to understand what comes after Moore’s Law. …
A Rogues Gallery of Post-Moore’s Law Options was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
FPGAs might not have carved out a niche in the deep learning training space the way some might have expected but the low power, high frequency needs of AI inference fit the curve of reprogrammable hardware quite well. …
Xilinx Unveils xDNN FPGA Architecture for AI Inference was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
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 .
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 .
Another Hot Chips conference has ended with yet another deep learning architecture to consider. …
A Mythic Approach to Deep Learning Inference was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
The relationship between quantum computers and supercomputing will be more complementary than competitive in the coming years with quantum processors being the offload engines for some key workloads in materials science and other areas. …
Quantum Simulation Work Blazes Trail for Hybrid Systems was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
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 .
There have been several chip startups over the last few years that have sought to new ways to train and execute neural networks efficiently, but why reinvent the wheel when each idea has yielded at least one small piece of a much bigger performance picture? …
Arm Stands on Shoulders of Giants with First Generation AI Processor was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
The increasingly distributed nature of computing and the rapid growth in the number of the small connected devices that make up the Internet of Things (IoT) are combining with trends like the rise of silicon-level vulnerabilities highlighted by Spectre, Meltdown, and more recent variants to create an expanding and fluid security landscape that’s difficult for enterprises to navigate. …
Getting To The Root Of Security With Trusted Silicon was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
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 .
There is much value in separating storage from compute, particular for cloud database deployments. …
Alibaba Rolls Own Distributed File System for Cloud Database Performance was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .