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The Tipping Point For PCI-Express Fabrics
In the longest of runs, say within the next five to ten years, in the large datacenters of the world the server chassis as we know it will no longer exist. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Compute
The Endless Pursuit Of Scale At LinkedIn
There is nothing at all wrong with legacy application and system software as long as it can deliver scalability, reliability, and performance. …
Compute
The Dance Between Compute And Network In The Datacenter
In an ideal world, there is a balance between compute, network, and storage that allows for the CPUs to be fed with data such that they do not waste too much of their processing capacity spinning empty clocks. …
Compute
Taking The Long View On Open Computing
COMMISSIONED Software changes like the weather, and hardware changes like the landscape; each affects the other over geologic timescales to create a new climate. …
Connect
Forget Microservices: A NIC-CPU Co-Design For The Nanoservices Era
The remote procedure call, or RPC, might be the single most important invention in the history of modern computing. …
Compute
Is The Shift To Single-Socket Servers Starting?
One of the key strategic moves that AMD made when it architected its comeback in the datacenter was to beef up the compute, I/O, and memory on a single server socket while at the same time making that socket out of chiplets that were significantly cheaper to manufacture and integrate than a monolithic chip was to put into the same socket. …
Compute
The Cheapest Compute In The Intel Xeon Lineup
While the minimalist server processor — and the microserver concept that was based upon it — did not take over the datacenters of the world, there are still some workloads that can fit in modestly powered single-socket CPUs just fine. …
Edge
The Edge Is Just A Massive, Geographically Distributed Cluster
Sponsored If you have a hundred or a thousand machines that you want to work in concert to run a simulation or a model or a machine learning training workload that cannot physically be done by any one single machine, you build a distributed systems cluster and there are all kinds of known tools to manage the underlying server nodes, to create the overarching computing environment, and to then carve it up into pieces to push work through it. …
Compute
This Is What The Most Powerful Server In The World Looks Like
While we are big fans of distributed computing systems here at The Next Platform, we never forget our heritage in big iron. …
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The CXL Roadmap Opens Up The Memory Hierarchy
The system world would have been a simpler place if InfiniBand had fulfilled its original promise as a universal fabric interconnect for linking all manner of devices together within a system and across systems. …