Compute
The Composable Systems Wave Is Rising
Hardware is, by its very nature, physical and therefore, unlike software or virtual hardware and software routines encoded by FPGAs, it is the one thing that cannot be easily changed. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Cloud
One Hyperscaler Gets The Jump On Skylake, Everyone Else Sidelined
Well, it could have been a lot worse. About 5.6 percent worse, if you do the math. …
Cloud
When No One Can Make Money In Systems
Making money in the information technology market has always been a challenge, but it keeps getting increasingly difficult as the tumultuous change in how companies consume compute, storage, and networking rips through all aspects of this $3 trillion market. …
HPC
Memory-Like Storage Means File Systems Must Change
The term software defined storage is in the new job title that Eric Barton has at DataDirect Networks, and he is a bit amused by this. …
Compute
The Last Itanium, At Long Last
In a world of survival of the fittest coupled with mutations, something always has to be the last of its kind. …
AI
Big Bang For The Buck Jump With Volta DGX-1
One of the reasons why Nvidia has been able to quadruple revenues for its Tesla accelerators in recent quarters is that it doesn’t just sell raw accelerators as well as PCI-Express cards, but has become a system vendor in its own right through its DGX-1 server line. …
Compute
AMD Disrupts The Two-Socket Server Status Quo
It is funny to think that Advanced Micro Devices has been around almost as long as the IBM System/360 mainframe and that it has been around since the United States landed people on the moon. …
Cloud
The Embiggening Bite That GPUs Take Out Of Datacenter Compute
We are still chewing through all of the announcements and talk at the GPU Technology Conference that Nvidia hosted in its San Jose stomping grounds last week, and as such we are thinking about the much bigger role that graphics processors are playing in datacenter compute – a realm that has seen five decades of dominance by central processors of one form or another. …
AI
Nvidia’s Tesla Volta GPU Is The Beast Of The Datacenter
Graphics chip maker Nvidia has taken more than a year and carefully and methodically transformed its GPUs into the compute engines for modern HPC, machine learning, and database workloads. …
AI
GOAI: Keeping Databases, Analytics, And Machine Learning All On The GPU
Moving data is the biggest problem in computing, and probably has been since there was data processing if we really want to be honest about it. …