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Details Emerge On Post-K Exascale System With First Prototype

June 21, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Japanese computer maker Fujitsu, which has four different processors under development at the same time aimed at different workloads in the datacenter – five if you count its digital annealer quantum chip – has unveiled some of the details about the future Arm processor, as yet unnamed, that is being created for the Post-K exascale supercomputer at RIKEN, the research and development arm of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). …

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A Deep Dive Into Cisco’s Use Of Merchant Switch Chips

June 20, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The incumbent switch makers of the world could learn a thing or two from the server racket. …

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AMD’s Epyc Return To The Datacenter Ring

June 20, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

The server market has been spoiling for a fight for so long that it is hard to remember a time when there was intense competition across multiple processor vendors and architectures. …

Sandia Lends Arm A Hand In HPC With Astra Supercomputer

June 18, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

If the ecosystem for Arm processors is going to grow in the HPC arena, as many think it can, then someone has to make the initial investments in prototype hardware and help cultivate the software stack that will run on current and future Arm platforms. …

BSC Fires Up Power9-V100 Hybrid Compute On MareNostrum 4

June 13, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center is one of the flagship HPC facilities in Europe and it arguably has the most elegant and spiritual of datacenters in the world, located inside of Torre Girona Chapel. …

Penguin Computing Gets Smart About Capital Needs In HPC

June 12, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

As history reveals, building a thriving systems business in HPC is no simple task. …

Arista Runs Barefoot With Tofino Programmable Switch Chips

June 12, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

If Andy Bechtolsheim, the chief technology officer at datacenter switching upstart Arista Networks, wanted to design ASICs to try to take a bigger piece of the switch pie – or more precisely, thought that this was a good idea at all – rest assured, Arista would be spending money engineering its own chips and fighting for capacity at the four remaining foundries that have advanced processes. …

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The Old Switcheroo

June 8, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The cost of servers keeps going up and up, thanks in large part to memory, flash, and GPU prices rising as too much demand chases too little supply and also due in part to the rising cost of processors. …

AMD Coils For 7 Nanometer Leap Over Intel And Nvidia

June 7, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

With Intel having significant difficulties in ramping up its 10 nanometer manufacturing processes and not really talking much about its plans for 7 nanometers, there has never been a better time for its few remaining rivals in chip manufacturing to give their respective CPU and GPU customers and edge to carve out some market share in the datacenter and on the desktop, which helps cover the cost of being in the datacenter because it helps ramp advanced processes. …

Cisco Gets Modular With Servers In Epyc Fashion

June 1, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Believe it or not, Cisco Systems has a bunch of customers for its UCS blade and rack servers that are in the gaming industry, which has its share of near-hyperscale players who have widely geographically distributed clusters spread around the globe so players can get very low latency access over the Internet to games running on that infrastructure. …