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The Era Of Big Memory Is Upon Us
If you reduce systems down to their bare essentials, everything exists in those systems to manipulate data in memory, and like human beings, all that really exists for any of us is what is in memory. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Compute
Now Nvidia Is Armed To The Teeth
Companies with high stock valuations are a bit like the central banks of major countries. …
Store
Necessary For Adtech Then, Even Moreso For Enterprise Now
Like other technologies, a lot of the databases in use in the world are born out of necessity because some other database hit a performance, capacity, or latency wall – or sometimes all three at the same time. …
Compute
Server Hunger Is Stronger Than Economic Uncertainty
The appetite for compute capacity, and presumably also for storage and networking capacity, in the datacenter of the world might be waning in some sectors of the economy, but thanks to the voracious hunger of the hyperscalers and cloud builders and more than a few large enterprises that need to do more, not less, computing in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, server sales are now consistently at the levels we saw way back in the Dot-Com Boom more than twenty years ago. …
Compute
The Memory Area Network At The Heart Of IBM’s Power10
It must have been something in the cosmic ether.
Apopros of nothing except the need to fill a blank page with something interesting back when we were analyzing IBM’s second quarter financials and considering the options that Big Blue has with the “Cirrus” Power10 systems it will be launching about a year from now, we did a thought experiment about what it would mean if IBM started to believe in big iron machines again. …
Compute
Making HCI Hay While the Sun Shines
Whenever enterprise server buyers are shopping, they are not just comparing the possible options on the market today against each other. …
Compute
The Local Maxima Ascension Of Datacenter At Nvidia
When we said thirteen weeks ago that we thought that Nvidia’s datacenter business would be its largest operating division before too long, we didn’t think it would only take a quarter to do that. …
Connect
Cray-Now-HPE Issues Network Performance Challenge – And Cooperation – With GPCNeT Benchmark
It happens all the time. There is a performance problem, and everyone blames the network. …
Compute
Taking A Deeper Dive Into Marvell’s “Triton” ThunderX3
Say what you will, but among the many vendors that have tried to break into the datacenter with Arm server chips, Marvell, by virtue of the hard work done by Cavium, which it acquired, and Broadcom, which sold its “Vulcan” design to Cavium when it exited the business, has been the most successful in terms of shipments and ecosystem. …
Compute
IBM Brings An Architecture Gun To A Chip Knife Fight
For the past several years here at The Next Platform, as we have been pondering what IBM might do with the future Power10 processor, we have been feinting here and there with our analytical pen, trying to suss out precisely what Big Blue might be up to, particularly with the unique memory architecture that it has been working on for more than a decade. …