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A Deep Dive Into Cisco’s Use Of Merchant Switch Chips
The incumbent switch makers of the world could learn a thing or two from the server racket. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Cloud
AMD’s Epyc Return To The Datacenter Ring
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. …
Compute
Sandia Lends Arm A Hand In HPC With Astra Supercomputer
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. …
Compute
BSC Fires Up Power9-V100 Hybrid Compute On MareNostrum 4
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. …
AI
Penguin Computing Gets Smart About Capital Needs In HPC
As history reveals, building a thriving systems business in HPC is no simple task. …
Cloud
Arista Runs Barefoot With Tofino Programmable Switch Chips
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. …
Connect
The Old Switcheroo
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. …
Compute
AMD Coils For 7 Nanometer Leap Over Intel And Nvidia
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. …
Compute
Cisco Gets Modular With Servers In Epyc Fashion
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. …
Cloud
The Server Boom Town Is Built On High Component Prices
On the face of it, if you just look at the top level numbers, the server market is booming like we have not seen since the recovery in the wake of the Great Recession for a few quarters here and there between late 2009 and early 2011. …