AI
SambaNova Doubles Up Chips To Chase AI Foundation Models
One of the first tenets of machine learning, which is a very precise kind of data analytics and statistical analysis, is that more data beats a better algorithm every time. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Compute
Arm Fills In Some Gaps – And Details – In Server Chip Roadmaps
Let’s just say it right here at the beginning. The first wave of attempts at creating Arm server chips –Calxeda, Applied Micro, AMD, Marvell, Nvidia, and Samsung, among others – was disappointing. …
Connect
Hyperscalers And Clouds Switch Up To High Bandwidth Ethernet
The hunger for more compute and storage capacity and for more bandwidth to shuffle and shuttle ever-increasing amounts of data is not insatiable among the hyperscalers and large cloud builders of the world. …
Control
Why Aren’t There Software-Defined NUMA Servers Everywhere?
For decades, we have been using software to chop up servers with virtualization hypervisors to run many small workloads on a relatively big piece of iron. …
Connect
Broadcom Secures The Edge By Beefing Up The Network Core
A lot of compute is moving to the edge, and that means that networking and storage has to follow it. …
Compute
IBM Power10 Shreds Ice Lake Xeons For Transaction Processing
Here is a simple algebraic equation that describes the relative computing oomph of two different CPU architectures over the past two decades: If Intel an X86 core is X, then an IBM Power core equals 2X. …
Compute
The Bellwethers Of Enterprise IT Spending Fare Reasonably Well
If you want to figure out what is going on with spending on the corporate datacenters of the world, a good place to start is to examine the financial results of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Dell Technologies, which are still the two largest original equipment makers for servers in the world. …
Compute
GPU Engines Are So Strategic China Will Have To Use Its Own
China is the world’s second largest economy, it has the world’s largest population, and it is only a matter of time before has a world-class technology ecosystem spanning the smallest transistors to the largest hyperscale and HPC systems. …
Store
Meta’s Velox Means Database Performance Is Not Subject To Interpretation
A decade and a half ago, when Dennard scaling ran out of gas and many of us were starting to first think about what the end of Moore’s Law might look like should that day ever come, a bunch of us were kicking around what it might mean. …
Control
Bringing AWS-Style DPU Offload To The VMware Base
Databases and datastores are by far the stickiest things in the datacenter. …