Enterprise
Taking The Locks Off Transactional Memory
The earliest paper on Transactional Memory that can be found – Transactional Memory: Architectural Support for Lock-Free Data Structures – was written about twenty years ago. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Compute
Applied Micro Chases Xeons With X-Gene 3 And NUMA
If ARM processors are going to get traction in the datacenter, they will have to do so outside of the conservative glass houses of large enterprises. …
Compute
HPC Spending Expands With Clouds And Data
While enterprise spending on general purpose servers has been soft in recent quarters, companies are investing more heavily in certain segments, and one of them just so happens to be high performance computing systems used for simulation, modeling, and data analytics at scale. …
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Intel Rounds Out Scalable Systems With Omni-Path
Even though Intel is best known in the datacenter as the maker of server processors and their chipsets, the company has increasingly become a platform thinker in the past decade. …
Compute
The Knights Landing Xeon Phi Rollout Begins
The natural place for Intel to launch the next iteration of its “Knights” family of parallel X86 processors is at one of the two major supercomputer conferences that are hosted each year, which is the ISC conference in Germany and the SC conference in the United States. …
Compute
Taking The HPC Pulse With Hewlett Packard Enterprise
The hardware part of the high performance computing market is somewhere around $10 billion or so, depending on how you want to count it and who you want to ask, and Bill Mannel, vice president and general manager of a combined HPC and Big Data group within the newly constituted Hewlett Packard Enterprise half of the former Hewlett-Packard, reckons that his employer has north of a third of the business. …
Compute
OpenPower: Accelerated Computing Will Be The New Normal
IBM did not just stake the future of its Power chip and the systems business on which it depends on the OpenPower Foundation, a consortium now with 160 members after more than two years of cultivation by Big Blue and its key early partners – Google, Nvidia, Mellanox Technologies, and Tyan. …
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Inside eBay’s Shift To Kubernetes And Containers Atop OpenStack
Online auctioneer eBay was founded a year after Amazon and is older than Google, Facebook, and a number of the other hyperscalers. …
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Mellanox Turns InfiniBand Switches Into MPI Accelerators
One of the key themes to improving the performance of clusters running simulations has been the offloading of common routines from the central processors in the servers to accelerators in the network adapter cards that plug into the servers and that interface with switches. …
Enterprise
Transactional Memory Comes To The Storage Hierarchy
These are exciting times for the memory hierarchy in systems. New kinds of DRAM and non-volatile memories are becoming available to system architects to enhance the performance and responsiveness of the applications that run upon them. …