Anybody who can read a financial report knows they are paying too much for compute, storage, networking, and software at Amazon Web Services. It is as obvious as the sun at noon. And it is also obvious – and increasingly so – that the retailing and media businesses at Amazon …
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 …
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. Which one do you think wins out in the longest of runs? For a …
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. And imagine further how 2022 might have turned out – and how 2023 might be – if it …
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. Say what you will, but that is …
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. And it was. And the worst is still yet to …
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. You can tune the CPU core to memory bandwidth ratios by picking your chips wisely, and you can lean on chip makers …
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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. The organization – a holding company best known for its ownership of the New England Patriots football team and its home field Gillette Stadium – …
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) …
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. In this fast-evolving space, …
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. In fact, the company reckons that across the cloud services and infrastructure …
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 …
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. That’s the primary aim of the newly …
If a few cores are good, then a lot of cores ought to be better. But when it comes to HPC this isn’t always the case, despite what the Top500 ranking – which is stacked with 64-core Epycs – would lead you to believe. Speaking with executives at Atos and …
It’s rare in supercomputing to discover a paper that’s both insightful and amusing, but a distributed team led by Dr. Satoshi Matsuoka from RIKEN has managed to produce one. “Myths and Legends in High Performance Computing” tackles the many angles of hype flying around HPC, from challenging the role AI …
The IT industry, like every other industry we suppose, is in a constant state of dealing with the next bottleneck. It is a perpetual game of Whac-a-Mole – a pessimist might say Sisyphusian at its core, an optimist probably tries not to think about it too hard and deal with …
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