Compute
A Peek Inside Facebook’s Server Fleet Upgrade
Having a proliferation of server makes and models over a span of years in the datacenter is not a huge deal for most enterprises. …
Compute
Cloud
Google Courts Enterprise For Cloud Platform
Google has always been a company that thinks big. After all, its mission since Day One was to organize and make accessible all of the world’s information. …
Cloud
Windows Server Comes To ARM Chips, But Only For Azure
The rumors have been running around for years, and they turned out to be true. …
Cloud
Applied Micro Renews ARM Assault On Intel Servers
The lineup of ARM server chip makers has been a somewhat fluid one over the years. …
AI
An Early Look at Startup Graphcore’s Deep Learning Chip
As a thought exercise, let’s consider neural networks as massive graphs and begin considering the CPU as a passive slave to some higher order processor—one that can sling itself across multiple points on an ever-expanding network of connections feeding into itself, training, inferencing, and splitting off into multiple models on the same architecture. …
Cloud
ARM And AMD X86 Server Chips Get Mainstream Lift From Microsoft
If you want real competition among vendors who supply stuff to you, then sometimes you have to make it happen by yourself. …
Cloud
How AMD’s Naples X86 Server Chip Stacks Up To Intel’s Xeons
Ever so slowly, and not so fast as to give competitor Intel too much information about what it is up to, but just fast enough to build interest in the years of engineering smarts that has gone into its forthcoming “Naples” X86 server processor, AMD is lifting the veil on the product that will bring it back into the datacenter and that will bring direct competition to the Xeon platform that dominates modern computing infrastructure. …
Compute
High Times for Low-Precision Hardware
Processor makers are pushing down the precision for a range of new and forthcoming devices, driven by a need that balances accuracy with energy-efficient performance for an emerging set of workloads. …
Cloud
Naples Opterons Give AMD A Second Chance In Servers
There are not a lot of second chances in the IT racket. …
AI
Stanford’s TETRIS Clears Blocks for 3D Memory Based Deep Learning
The need for speed to process neural networks is far less a matter of processor capabilities and much more a function of memory bandwidth. …