Cloud
AWS Tests The Waters With Homegrown Arm Servers
What is the difference between a SmartNIC and a server processor? …
Cloud
Cloud
Pratt & Whitney Launches HPC to The Cloud To Push Jet Engine Design
HPC and the cloud have an uneasy, lukewarm relationship. Some corporations running HPC environments take the view that they have the infrastructure and software capabilities they need to run their own often massive workloads and taking on the networking costs, security concerns and management hassles of running applications and keep data in the cloud doesn’t make sense to them. …
Cloud
Oracle Puts Together RDMA, Bare Metal for HPC
Oracle was famously behind the cloud computing curve, with co-founder and then-CEO Larry Ellison several years ago dismissing it as little more than an empty tag that was more on par with fashion trends than anything serious in the tech world. …
AI
Competition Finally Comes To Datacenter GPU Compute
Updated: AMD’s “Rome” processors, the second generation of Epyc processors that the company will be putting into the field, are a key step for the company on its path back to the datacenter. …
Cloud
AMD’s Long Road From Naples To Milan Centers On Rome
AMD president and chief executive officer Lisa Su is fond of saying that the road to Rome goes through Naples as a way of reminding everyone that they can’t sit on the sidelines and wait for the second generation “Rome” Epyc processors to come to market in 2019. …
Cloud
Intel To Challenge AMD With 48 Core “Cascade Lake” Xeon AP
AMD is hosting its “Next Horizon” datacenter event in San Francisco this week, and archrival Intel, which is losing some market share to AMD but not feeling the pain on its books yet thanks to a massive buildout in server infrastructure at hyperscalers, cloud builders, and smaller service providers like telcos, is hitting back by divulging some of its plans for next year’s “Cascade Lake” Xeon lineup. …
Cloud
Big Blue Dons A $34 Billion Red Hat
In one fell swoop that is going to cost Big Blue a whopping $34 billion, IBM is going to become a modern software powerhouse in the datacenter that has to be contended with in an entirely different way. …
Cloud
Intel’s Data Center Group Rides A Wave Of Compute Demand
Sometimes, you just have to be amazed by a good stroke of luck in the IT sector. …
Cloud
The 400G Ethernet Ramp About Radix As Much As Bandwidth
The appetite for network bandwidth is insatiable, as is that of compute and storage, but our enthusiasm to acquire larger and larger chunks of all of these things is curtailed significantly by cost. …
Cloud
Spanning The Clouds, Public And Private, With The Kubernetes Stack
Enterprises are looking at a future of multiple clouds and hybrid clouds where they can run not only their new cloud-native applications but also migrate many of their legacy workloads and take advantage of cost savings and the agility that comes with cloud computing. …