Compute
Power8 Iron To Take On Four-Socket Xeons
The high ground in the server market used to be large-scale SMP and NUMA machines with 16, 32, 64, or 128 sockets all lashed together to make a big shared memory machine. …
Compute
Compute
Tesla GPU Accelerator Unit Grows Fast For Nvidia
The broader adoption of GPU acceleration for workloads in the traditional high performance computing segment and expansion in new areas such as deep learning are driving revenues and profits at graphics chip maker Nvidia. …
Compute
Cray Makes Taming Chaos Look Easy
Low margins, an unpredictable cycle, expensive and ongoing research development efforts, a slavish commitment to processor upgrade timelines, and a market that will only ever grow so much—who wouldn’t want to be in the supercomputing systems business? …
Cloud
Does AMD’s Datacenter Roadmap Go Far Enough Fast Enough?
Companies in the IT sector have a kind of inertia that is directly related to their revenue and profit streams, which are a measure of their influence in the IT supply chain and among customers. …
AI
Intel Puts More Compute Behind Xeon E7 Big Memory
It has been more than a decade since Intel fielded its first credible processors aimed at four-socket machines, and it is no coincidence that makers of RISC and Itanium systems that used to enjoy high revenues and margins on big iron systems have been in decline since that time. …
Compute
HP ProLiants Retooled For Hyperscale And In-Memory
Hewlett-Packard may not have created a business line dedicated to custom server manufacturing like rival Dell. …
Compute
IBM Scales Up Power8 Iron, Targets In-Memory
The rollout of Power8 systems that IBM started last year is nearly completed as the company has put its largest Power E880 configurations into the field, giving an upgrade path to customers who had been using Power7 and Power7+ systems to run large databases and online transaction processing workloads and to others who are looking for more scalable machines to run in-memory databases and their applications like SAP’s HANA stack. …
AI
SGI Awaits UV 3000 And SAP HANA Uplifts
The high performance computing market is about as tough as they come. …
AI
Microsoft Stacks Azure Up Against AWS
Amazon Web Services may be the 800-pound silverback alpha-ape in the rapidly expanding cloud industry, seeing as how its infrastructure revenue is greater than its four closest competitors combined, but that hasn’t stopped its fast-growing challenger, Microsoft Azure, from beating its own chest and showing off its strengths. …
Compute
Google Will Do Anything To Beat Moore’s Law
For most companies in most industries, riding down the Moore’s Law curve to get more compute power for the same money is good enough. …