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Intel Xeon Roadmap On Track, 288 Core “Sierra Forest” Coming Soon

September 19, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

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

October 5, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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

September 19, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

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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Nvidia Licenses NVLink Memory Ports To CPU And Accelerator Makers

May 19, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

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

February 24, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

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

January 31, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 12

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. …

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The Road Ahead For Datacenter Compute Engines: The CPUs

January 30, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 8

Updated with just-announced Intel roadmap changes.

It is often said that companies – particularly large companies with enormous IT budgets – do not buy products, they buy roadmaps. …

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“El Capitan” Supercomputer Blazes The Trail for Converged CPU-GPU Compute

November 18, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 8

Every couple of years, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory gets to install the world’s fastest supercomputer. …

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The Server Recession Ends, And Both Intel And AMD Won

November 12, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 16

Anyone who thinks that Intel is easy to kill need look no further than the historical trends of the Mercury Research market share statistics that we see each quarter. …

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AMD Will Need Another Decade To Try To Pass Nvidia

October 30, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

Lisu Su has turned in her first ten years at the helm of AMD, and what a hell of a run it has been. …

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