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Intel Xeon Roadmap On Track, 288 Core “Sierra Forest” Coming Soon
Sometimes, especially with Intel in the past several years, the fact that the CPU roadmap doesn’t change is the news. …
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The Clever Machinations Of Livermore’s Sierra Supercomputer
The potent combination of powerful CPUs, floating point laden GPU accelerators, and fast InfiniBand networking are coming to market and reshaping the upper echelons of supercomputing. …
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The Power9 Rollout Begins With Summit And Sierra Supercomputers
At the end of July, Oak Ridge National Laboratories started receiving the first racks of servers that will eventually be expanded to become the “Summit” supercomputer, the long-awaited replacement to the “Titan” hybrid CPU-GPU system that was built by Cray and installed back in the fall of 2012. …
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Fixing Intel Foundry Is Like Stopping Tripping Down The Stairs
Technical debt is a real thing, as any IT manager, programmer, system administrator or SRE, or end user will tell you. …
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IBM Ships Homegrown “Spyre” Accelerators, Embraces Anthropic For AI Push
Big Blue may have missed the boat on being one of the big AI model builders, but its IBM Research division has built its own enterprise-grade family of models and its server and research divisions have plenty of experience building accelerators and supercomputers. …
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Intel’s “Clearwater Forest” Xeon 7 E-Core CPU Will Be A Beast
With AMD having attaining more than 40 percent revenue share and more than 27 percent shipment share in the X86 server CPU market in the first half of 2025, that means two things. …
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The World’s Most Powerful Server Embiggens A Bit With Power11
If you need a big, badass box that can support tens of terabytes of memory, dozens of PCI-Express peripheral slots, thousands of directly attached storage devices, all feeding into hundreds of cores that can span that memory footprint with lots of bandwidth, you do not have a lot of options. …
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Nvidia Licenses NVLink Memory Ports To CPU And Accelerator Makers
There are many reasons why Nvidia is the hardware juggernaut of the AI revolution, and one of them, without question, is the NVLink memory sharing port that started out on its “Pascal” P100 GOU accelerators way back in 2016. …
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Intel Rounds Out “Granite Rapids” Xeon 6 With A Slew Of Chips
It is no secret that chip maker Intel is having a tough time these days on a number of fronts, but it is important to remember that nearly two out of every three processors sold into the datacenter are Intel Inside. …
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Intel Pushes Out “Clearwater Forest” Xeon 7, Sidelines “Falcon Shores” Accelerator
If Intel hopes to survive the next few years as a freestanding company and return to its role as innovator, it can not afford to waste its time and it cannot afford to make any more mistakes. …