Compute
Big Blue Open Sources Power Chip Instruction Set
It has been a long time coming, and it might have been better if this had been done a decade ago. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
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The Future Of Networks Depends On Hyperscalers And Big Clouds
If you want for the rapid pace of innovation in datacenter networking to continue, then you had better hope that the hyperscalers and major public cloud builders don’t run out of money. …
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Getting Around The Limits Of Memory To Accelerate Applications
Forget in-memory computing for the moment because it requires a complete re-architecting of applications and most of the time the underlying hardware, too. …
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How Cray Makes Ethernet Suited For HPC And AI With Slingshot
Last fall, supercomputer maker Cray announced that it was getting back to making high performance cluster interconnects after a six year hiatus, but the company had already been working on its “Rosetta” switch ASIC for the Slingshot interconnect for quite a while before it started talking publicly about it. …
Compute
Nvidia Readies For Battle In The Datacenter In 2020
If you were expecting Nvidia to start talking about its future “Einstein” GPUs for Tesla accelerated computing soon just because AMD is getting ready to roll out “Navi” GPUs next year and Intel is working on its Xe GPU cards for delivery next year, too, you are going to have to wait a bit longer. …
Compute
A Deep Dive Into AMD’s Rome Epyc Architecture
In any chip design, the devil – and the angel – is always in the details. …
HPC
Cray Runs The Exascale Table In The United States
After a long wait, now we know. All three of the initial exascale-class supercomputer systems being funded by the US Department of Energy through its CORAL-2 procurement are going to be built by Cray, with that venerable maker of supercomputers being the prime contractor on two of them. …
Compute
AMD Doubles Down – And Up – With Rome Epyc Server Chips
It has been a long time coming: The day when AMD can put a processor up against any Xeon that Intel can deliver and absolutely compete on technology, price, predictability of availability, and consistency of roadmap looking ahead. …
Compute
Talking High Bandwidth With IBM’s Power10 Architect
As the lead engineer on the Power10 processor, Bill Starke already knows what most of us have to guess about Big Blue’s next iteration in a processor family that has been in the enterprise market in one form or another for nearly three decades. …
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Intel Goes Barefoot As It Leaves The Omni-Path
The handwriting has been on the wall for some time now, but Intel has quietly dropped its 200 Gb/sec Omni-Path networking from its roadmaps and will be using other technology for interconnects going forward. …