AI
Tearing Apart Google’s TPU 3.0 AI Coprocessor
Google did its best to impress this week at its annual IO conference. …
Articles by Paul Teich
Cloud
Datacenters Brace For Spectre And Meltdown Impact
The Spectre and Meltdown speculative execution security vulnerabilities fall into the category of “low probability, but very high impact” potential exploits. …
Compute
Quantum Computing Enters 2018 Like It Is 1968
The quantum computing competitive landscape continues to heat up in early 2018. …
Cloud
Deep Dive Into Qualcomm’s Centriq Arm Server Ecosystem
Qualcomm launched its Centriq server system-on-chip (SoC) a few weeks ago. …
Cloud
Azure Stack Finally Takes Microsoft Public Cloud Private
Microsoft announced Azure Stack at its Ignite event in September 2016 and soft-launched Azure Stack at its Inspire event in July, when it announced that the private cloud solution was available for customer orders. …
Compute
The New Server Economies Of Scale For AMD
In the first story of this series, we discussed the Infinity fabric that is at the heart of the new “Naples” Epyc processor from AMD, and how this modified and extended HyperTransport interconnect glues together the cores, dies, and sockets based on Eypc processors into a unified system. …
AI
The Heart Of AMD’s Epyc Comeback Is Infinity Fabric
At AMD’s Epyc launch few weeks ago, Lisa Su, Mark Papermaster, and the rest of the AMD Epyc team hammered home that AMD designed its new Zen processor core for servers first. …
Cloud
Under The Hood Of Google’s TPU2 Machine Learning Clusters
As we previously reported, Google unveiled its second-generation TensorFlow Processing Unit (TPU2) at Google I/O last week. …