Compute
Shasta Sets Up Cray For Commercial HPC And Supercomputing Expansion
If you look at the very long history of Cray, the company has done a remarkable job expanding its market, not just participating in it. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Cloud
IBM Puffs Up Power Iron On Its Public Cloud
IBM, which arguably has the largest remaining big iron server business in the world, is one step closer to making systems based on its own Power processors peers to the Xeon-based machinery that utterly dominates its IBM Cloud public cloud. …
Connect
PCI-Express Lends Server Composability A Hand
Applications do not need to use all elements of a system all the time, and usually not all at the same time for that matter. …
AI
Will The Harmonic Convergence Of HPC And AI Last?
History and economics – as if you could separate the two – are burgeoning with examples of products being developed for one task and then being used, perhaps after some tweaking, for an entirely new and usually unexpected task. …
Cloud
When Does AWS Break Through $100 Billion?
While there is no question that Amazon Web Services is the largest and most profitable public cloud on planet earth, and that it provides the best subsidy imaginable for a cut-throat online retail business that is its parent company, AWS has not taken over the entire IT world any more than Amazon has become the sole place to buy stuff. …
Connect
Acquisition Rumors Abound As Mellanox Rings Up Record Sales
There hardly seems to be a month that doesn’t go by without a different IT supplier being rumored to want to acquire network device provider Mellanox Technologies, which has an intense focus on the high end, scale out, low latency segment of the datacenter switching market. …
Cloud
AMD Nails Its Epyc Server Targets For 2018
The second 5 percent chunk of server shipment market share for chip maker AMD is probably going to come easier than the first 5 percent share, which was attained as AMD exited the fourth quarter and, significantly, was a stake in the ground that chief executive officer Lisa Su drove into the ground in late 2016 as the “Naples” Epyc ramp got under way. …
Cloud
Hyperscaler And Cloud Server Feeding Frenzy Abates
For the first time in a very long time, and even including the Great Recession, chip maker Intel booked less revenue in the fourth quarter of the year than it did in the third quarter of that same year. …
Connect
Aspiring To Be The Windows, Not The Linux, Of Networks
Anyone operating at network at scale almost has to, by definition, hack together their own network operating system. …
Code
Unified Memory: The Final Piece Of The GPU Programming Puzzle
Support for unified memory across CPUs and GPUs in accelerated computing systems is the final piece of a programming puzzle that we have been assembling for about ten years now. …