It took a long, long time to convert the old IBM PC business acquired in 2004 into the dominant supplier of client devices in the world, but Lenovo is nothing but not patient and bypassed HP Inc in 2013 and has had the largest share of the market since that time. …
The Long Patience Of Lenovo Starts Paying Off In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
By definition, a capability-class supercomputer means buying the best compute, storage, and networking available and getting high performance at just about any cost. …
IBM Builds An AI Supercomputer On The Cheap In Its Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Here is an old saw that we bring out of the toolbox every now and then, and we use it just enough so it has never really gotten rusty and it can cut through a lot of crap to make a point: The datacenter, and perhaps all clients, would have been better off if InfiniBand had just become the ubiquitous I/O switched fabric standard it was designed to be back in the late 1990s. …
Luminaries Argue For The Interconnect We Could Have Already Had was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The hyperscalers and cloud builders are the toughest customers in the IT sector, demanding the highest performance at the lowest price and an ever-improving ratio between the two. …
Meta Platforms Spent Over $1 Billion On Arista Networking In 2022 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A decade ago, waferscale architectures were dismissed as impractical. Five years ago, they were touted as a fringe possibility for AI/ML. …
CFD Could Be the Engine That Drives Waferscale Mainstream was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
We have always been convinced, and remain so, that there is no way that the largest organizations in the world will move their computing to one of the big cloud builders. …
Hybrid Cloud Should Benefit You, Not Bezos was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Anybody who can read a financial report knows they are paying too much for compute, storage, networking, and software at Amazon Web Services. …
The On-Premises Empire Strikes Back At AWS was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Supermicro has always been an interesting IT supplier for the datacenter, and it is getting more interesting by the year as it continues to grow very fast and has set itself a goal of break $10 billion in annual sales, which would put Supermicro behind only Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, on par with Inspur, and ahead of
Since the advent of the X86 server market thirty years ago, Supermicro has been unique among its server making peers in a number of ways. …
Supermicro Aspires To Be A $10 Billion Server Maker was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
When it comes to operating systems and now CPU instruction sets, there is proprietary, there is licensable and modifiable with a standard base of functionality with room for some originality, and there is true open source. …
The First RISC-V Shot Across The Datacenter Bow was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In a lot of ways, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on The Kraft Group was no different than most other companies around the world. …
Pandemic Downtime Let Kraft Rebuild The IT Behind Patriots Football was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Imagine, if you will, how troublesome AMD’s chip business would be at the end of 2022 had it not decided way back in 2015 to re-enter the datacenter with its Epyc processors. …
Datacenter And Xilinx Power Through In Q4 And Beyond For AMD was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sponsored Post: In case you missed the big news earlier this month, Intel introduced its 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (formerly codenamed Sapphire Rapids) to a huge industry fanfare – groundbreaking datacenter silicon which promises to push the boundaries of performance for high performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI) and networking workloads. …
Missed the big CPU news this month? was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
You can’t turn back the hands of time, but if you are lucky enough in business, you can continue to find some modicum of relevance that outlasts your initial success and even adapt to new conditions as they inevitably and often unexpectedly change. …
Systems Turn In A Good Year for Big Blue was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Everybody expected that Intel was going to turn in a pretty bad final quarter in 2022, and even before it posted its numbers yesterday after the market closed, there were plenty of signals that it was going to be worse. …
Intel’s Datacenter Business Goes From Bad To Worse, With Worst Still To Come was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Enterprises are creating huge amounts of data and it is being generated, stored, accessed, and analyzed everywhere – in core datacenters, in the cloud distributed among various providers, at the edge, in databases from multiple vendors, in disparate formats, and for new workloads like artificial intelligence. …
A Database For All Locations, Models, And Scales was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
There is some uncertainty about global IT spending in the broadest sense in 2023 and beyond, and but Synergy Research, which watches the cloud segment like a hawk, is very bullish on cloud spending in its various guises. …
Cloud Spending To Top $1 Trillion In Four Years was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sponsored Feature: With each new successive generation of Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, more and more of the workloads that might be otherwise offloaded to discrete accelerators or SmartNICs have been pulled back onto the processor socket – and often in a way that does not burden the CPU cores with running routines and algorithms implemented in software. …
Kicking Up AI, Data Analytics, And Networking A Notch Or Two was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If memory bandwidth is holding back the performance of some of your applications, and there is something that you can do about it other than to just suffer. …
Building The Perfect Memory Bandwidth Beast was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sponsored Post: CPU speed matters a lot to certain types of process-intensive applications like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), so anything that helps to boost the raw power of the servers which inhabit modern datacenters will provide a welcome performance boost. …
Time to accelerate datacenter performance was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
If a few cores are good, then a lot of cores ought to be better. …
More CPU Cores Isn’t Always Better, Especially In HPC was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.