Cloud
Future Clouds Could Be Just Containers On Bare Metal
If operating systems or server firmware had better isolation and workload scheduling software, the last decade of server virtualization in the datacenter might never had happened. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Cloud
Nutanix Closes Big Deals, But Profits Still Elude
At some point, every company that has equity, venture, or public investors, has to start being profitable. …
AI
Intel’s Exascale Dataflow Engine Drops X86 And Von Neumann
With Moore’s Law running out of steam, the chip design wizards at Intel are going off the board to tackle the exascale challenge, and have dreamed up a new architecture that could in one fell swoop kill off the general purpose processor as a concept and the X86 instruction set as the foundation of modern computing. …
Compute
Fat And Hyperconverged Servers Save HPE’s Third Quarter
The ProLiant server is still the workhorse for plowing datacenters and sowing money at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, much as it was for the datacenter division at Compaq nearly two decades ago. …
Compute
IBM Power Chips Blur The Lines To Memory And Accelerators
The lines between the CPU, its main memory, the memory of accelerators, and various external storage class memories have been blurring for years, and the smudging and smearing is no more pronounced than with IBM’s Power9 family of server processors. …
Compute
The Datacenter Impact Of The GlobalFoundries 7 Nanometer Spike
Making money from sand is not as easy as making money from oil, and the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, which has been assembling the GlobalFoundries chip making giant for the past decade is finding that out the hard way and as a consequence, the company is backing off on its development of 7 nanometer manufacturing techniques, which included a double whammy of traditional immersion lithography techniques as well as a move towards bleeding-edge extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology. …
Code
Slashing HPC Energy Costs With Automated, Dynamic Optimization
A high-end supercomputer consumes nearly as much energy as a small city, which creates significant budgetary concerns for organizations that deploy and manage these systems. …
Compute
Fujitsu’s A64FX Arm Chip Waves The HPC Banner High
The processing world would be a whole lot less diverse and interesting if it were not for a healthy amount of nationalism. …
Compute
The Skinny On Future Cascade Lake Xeons
The changes to the Xeon server chip architecture and the consequent server platforms are going to be a bit thin here in 2018 after a pretty big jump with the “Skylake” Xeon SP processors and the related “Purley” platforms that launched back in July 2017. …
Compute
Dell Moves One Step Closer To Composable With PowerEdge MX
There is a certain level of impatience in the IT industry to create truly composable infrastructure from disaggregated compute, storage, and networking. …