Compute
Turbulence – And Opportunity – Ahead In The Oracle Sparc Base
You can’t swing a good-sized cat without hitting an enterprise running Oracle software in some shape or form. …
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Compute
Is M8 The Last Hurrah For Oracle Sparc?
Intel is not the only system maker that is looking to converge its processor lines to make life a bit simpler for itself and for its customers as well as to save some money on engineering work. …
Compute
Fujitsu Takes On IBM Power9 With Sparc64-XII
While a lot of the applications in the world run on clusters of systems with a relatively modest amount of compute and memory compared to NUMA shared memory systems, big iron persists and large enterprises want to buy it. …
Compute
Oracle Takes On Xeons With Sparc S7
It is an accepted principle of modern infrastructure that at a certain scale, customization like that done by Google, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, or Baidu pays off. …
Compute
Inside Oracle’s New Sparc M7 Systems
The core counts keep going up and up on server processors, and that means system makers do not have to scale up their systems as far to meet a certain performance level. …
Compute
Oracle Aims “Sonoma” Sparc At Scale Out Clusters
The vast majority of the so-called “engineered systems” that Oracle sells into datacenters are based on Intel Xeon processors. …
HPC
HPE Upgrades Supercomputer Lineup Top To Bottom In 2025
If you want to buy an exascale-class supercomputer, or a portion of one so you can scale up, there are not a lot of places to go shopping because there are not a lot of companies who have a balance sheet that is big enough to get all of the parts to build the machines. …
AI
Can SoftBank Be An AI Supercomputer Player? Will Arm Lend A Hand?
There have been rumors that either Arm Ltd or parent company and Japanese conglomerate SoftBank would buy British AI chip and system upstart – it is no longer a startup if it is eight years old – Graphcore for quite some time. …
Cloud
AWS Pushes Bang For The Buck With Graviton 4 Instances
UPDATED: Mea culpa. Due to an error in calculating the performance of the Graviton 4, we wrongly asserted that the price/performance of these chips was worse than, not better than, that of the Graviton 3. …
Connect
Arista Networks Conservatively Awaits Its AI Boom
As a founding member of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium, which has the express purpose of making Ethernet as good for AI and HPC clusters as InfiniBand but with the scalability and familiarity of Ethernet, Arista Networks wants to benefit mightily from the AI wave that is coming to enterprise datacenters the world over. …