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 .
The use of FPGAs in HPC is limited less by the capabilities of current hardware and more by the challenges in programming them without sacrificing performance. …
OpenCL Optimizations Make Case for FPGAs in HPC was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
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 .
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 .
Five years ago, Hewlett Packard Enterprise let loose the Peregrine supercomputer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, a marriage of performance and power efficiency that is based on HPE’s dense Apollo 8000 system and includes warm liquid cooling. …
NREL Set to Soar Higher With Eagle Supercomputer was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Newisys has been on the NVM-Express for several years, putting the high-profile interface in a growing number of server and storage platforms, including servers with NVM-Express directly attacked to the CPU, a system running NVM-Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) and a storage expansion flash array (JBOF, or Just a Bunch of Flash). …
Negotiating The NVM-Express Land Rush was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
The massive amounts of data being generated in enterprise datacenters and out there on the public clouds and the need to quickly access and analyze that data is putting a strain on traditional storage and memory architectures that typically inhabit these environments. …
Intel Pries Open Servers To Squeeze In Persistent Memory was written by Jeffrey Burt at .