Compute
Stacking Up Cascade Lake Xeons Against AMD Epyc For HPC
In theory, customers running HPC simulation and modeling applications want to cram as much compute in as small of a space as they can. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Compute
The Long View On The Intel Xeon Architecture
Incremental change is the secret to the success of the human race, and it is also its most difficult aspect in some regards. …
Edge
Big Data In Little Spaces: Hadoop And Spark At The Edge
The advent of scalable analytics in the form of Hadoop and Spark seems to be moving to the end of the Technology Hype Cycle. …
AI
Aurora Exascale AI Supercomputer To Light A Path In The Cancer Fight
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest incidence data, cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, exceeded only by heart disease. …
HPC
Back To The HPC Future With Next Generation AMD Epyc Processors
By its very nature, high performance computing is conflicted. On the one hand, HPC belongs on the bleeding edge, trying out new ideas and testing new technologies. …
Store
MemVerge Converged Storage Makes Clever Use Of Optane Memory
Now that Optane Persistent Memory Modules, based on bit-addressable 3D XPoint memory, are finally available from Intel, everybody in the storage business is trying to figure out how to best make use of them. …
Compute
Prying Open The Lid On Intel’s Multichip Cascade Lake-AP
Imagine for a second that you are Intel.
The few server CPU makers that remain in the market – AMD, IBM, Marvell, and Ampere – have more memory controllers on their sockets than you do. …
Compute
Intel Pushes Xeon SP To The Next Level With Cascade Lake
With the launch of the “Cascade Lake” processors, the second generation of its Xeon SP family of server CPUs, the fullness of the “Purley” server platform that we heard about way back in 2015 is finally being delivered. …
Cloud
Ampere Arm Makes The Packet Processor Rite Of Passage
Any aspiring server processor architecture seems to have a new rite of passage, and that is to be deployed in the Packet bare metal cloud. …
Cloud
AWS Adds More Epyc Compute To EC2
For the first decade that Amazon Web Services was in operation, its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) raw compute was available in precisely one flavor: Intel Xeon. …