Connect
Datacenter Networks Push Ethernet Switching To New Highs
The switching market has its ups and downs depending on the upgrade cycle for server processors and the nature of the economy at any given time. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Store
Memory Snapshots Bring Checkpointing Into The 21st Century
When you have a massively distributed computing job that can take months to run across thousands to hundreds of thousands of compute elements, one software hardware or software crash can mean losing an enormous amount of work. …
AI
Stacking Up AMD MI200 Versus Nvidia A100 Compute Engines
The modern GPU compute engine is a microcosm of the high performance computing datacenter at large. …
Store
Hyperscalers Start Taking Pure Storage Flash For A Spin
Usually, innovation starts with the hyperscalers, HPC centers, and cloud builders of the world and spreads to the enterprise. …
Compute
AWS Goes Wide And Deep With Graviton3 Server Chip
It is always an exciting time when there is a new compute engine coming into the market, and interest is particularly keen with any new Arm server chip entry. …
Compute
The Ghosts Of Itanium – And HPC – Give HPE Long Sought Profits
It may have taken the better part of a decade, but the Itanium platform has yielded the kinds of profits that Hewlett Packard Enterprise long sought and rarely attained. …
Connect
In A Peer-To-Peer Datacenter, PCI-Express Fabrics Will Be Pervasive
Supercomputers are expensive, and getting increasingly so. Even if they are delivering impressive performance gains over the past decade, modern HPC workloads require an incredible amount of performance, and this is particularly true of any workload that is going to blend together traditional HPC simulation and modeling with some sort of machine learning training and inference. …
Control
Should Nutanix And Citrix Systems Merge To Make A Better Platform?
When we analyzed the financial reports coming out of hyperconverged platform maker Nutanix thirteen weeks ago, we lamented the fact that while Nutanix defined a new market and is one of the leaders in that market, it has been unable to expand its market fast enough to become a profitable company even after being in the field for more than a decade. …
Connect
Finally, A Coherent Interconnect Strategy: CXL Absorbs Gen-Z
It is refreshing to find instances in the IT sector where competing groups with their own agendas work together for the common good and the improvement of systems everywhere. …
AI
AMD Is Beating Nvidia At Its 2017 Game, But The Game Has Moved On
Hold on a second. Nvidia’s sales of chips and systems to supercomputer centers are not as big as we might be thinking. …