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.
It’s rare in supercomputing to discover a paper that’s both insightful and amusing, but a distributed team led by Dr. …
Myths and Legends in HPC…With Some Legends was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The IT industry, like every other industry we suppose, is in a constant state of dealing with the next bottleneck. …
What Do We Do When Compute And Memory Stop Getting Cheaper? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
No matter what, and without any excuses about Moore’s Law slowing down, those buying compute, storage, and networking expect at least one thing in any generational leap in a device: That the cost per unit of capacity goes down. …
Intel Sometimes Charges A Hefty Premium For Sapphire Rapids was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Sponsored Feature: In an ideal world, if you knew exactly and precisely what application you are going to run, then co-designing a custom application and its processor would be a fairly simple matter and price/performance and performance per watt would always be as perfect as it could be. …
Application acceleration for the masses was written by Martin Courtney at The Next Platform.
DataStax, the driving force behind the ongoing development of and commercialization of the open source NoSQL Apache Cassandra database, had been in business for nine years in 2019 when it made a hard shift to the cloud. …
Supercharging Cassandra NoSQL For Machine Learning was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
When Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing speaks, the datacenter sector of the IT industry listens because, with few exceptions, this foundry etches the compute, networking, and storage engines that power the datacenter. …
The Highly Profitable Chip Making Monopoly Called TSMC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Pat Gelsinger returned to Intel as CEO in early 2021, the same year that the company was supposed to launch is much-touted fourth-generation Xeon SP processor, dubbed “Sapphire Rapids.” …
With Sapphire Rapids Launched, Gelsinger Focuses On The Future was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
If you are thinking that you are having flashbacks as Intel is launching the “Sapphire Rapids” server CPUs – the company’s fourth generation in the Xeon SP family of server processors – you are not alone. …
The Rest Of The World Can Finally Get Sapphire Rapids Xeon SPs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Nearly two years ago, Hewlett Packard Enterprise rolled out a new battle plan for storage and a new kind of storage array to implement it. …
HPE Adapts Boosted Alletra Storage For GreenLake Utility Consumption was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Thanks to the ubiquity of the X86 server platform, the Kubernetes container controller, and the KVM server virtualization hypervisor, it is relatively easy to compute like a hyperscaler or cloud builder. …
Making It Easier To Break The SONiC Barrier For Networking was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There are exceptions to every rule, but in general, when it comes to datacenter networks, enterprise customers are doing now what the hyperscalers and cloud builders were doing six or seven years ago. …
Paving The Way For 800 Gb/sec Ethernet In The Enterprise was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We were under the distinct impression that AMD was not going to talk much about its datacenter compute engines at the Consumer Electronics Show, having just launched its “Genoa” Epyc 9004 server CPUs in November with much fanfare. …
AMD Teases Details On Future MI300 Hybrid Compute Engines was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Gigabyte Technology’s enterprise server division has been spun off under a new logo: Giga Computing. …
Gigabyte Spins Off Server Division To Chase Datacenter Business was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.
By every measure we can get our hands on, 2022 was a bumper year for server shipments and server spending, which is good indicator for the appetite for new kinds of applications and the expansion of existing applications in the world at large. …
The Interesting Years Ahead For Servers was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Supermicro has become the latest of the big OEMs to add Arm-based systems to its portfolio, with the launch of its Mt. …
Supermicro Throws Its Weight Behind Arm Servers was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.
Intel has a lot at stake with its oneAPI software stack. …
oneAPI 2023: One Plug-In To Run Them All was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Two observations. One: When the world goes into recession, the server market has immediately followed. …
The World Is Still Hungry For Servers – For Now was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
What good is a floating point operation embodied in a vector or matrix unit if you can’t get data into fast enough to actually use the compute engine to process it in some fashion in a clock cycle? …
Compute Is Easy, Memory Is Harder And Harder was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.