Compute
The Four Workhorses Of The Data Apocalypse
The days when the X86 processor could do just about every kind of processing in the datacenter are gone. …
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What is The Next FPGA Platform?
The Next Platform has been tracking momentum with FPGAs over the last several years with particular emphasis on the role programmable devices will continue to play in application acceleration as well as in computational storage and modern datacenter networks. …
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D-Wave Takes Quantum Leap in Europe
The Forschungszentrum Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC) in Germany will soon be home to Europe’s first D-Wave quantum computer. …
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AMD’s Datacenter Business Breaks Through $1 Billion Run Rate
At some point, when the Epyc server CPU and Radeon Instinct GPU accelerator businesses are more substantial, AMD will probably be a lot less opaque about how its datacenter business is doing. …
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Why Micron is Getting into the AI Accelerator Business
Micron has a habit of building interesting research prototypes that offer a vague hope of commercialization for the sheer purpose of learning how to make its own memory and storage subsystem approaches more tuned to next generation applications. …
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Hyperscalers And Cloud Builders Resume Their Spending Spree
After two and a half quarters of tightening the purse strings, the world’s largest consumers of infrastructure – the eight major hyperscalers and cloud builders – plus their peers in the adjacent communications service provider space all started spending money on servers and storage again, and Intel can breathe a sigh of relief as it works to get its 10 nanometer manufacturing on track for the delivery of “Ice Lake” Xeon SP processors sometime in the second half of next year. …
AI
A Look Inside the Groq Approach to AI Inference
If the only thing you really know to date about machine learning chip startup, Groq, is that it is led by one of the creators of Google’s TPU and that will target inference, don’t worry, you didn’t miss something. …
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The Potential Of Red Hat Plus Power Is Larger Than Exascale
Red Hat is coming onto IBM’s books at just the right time, and to be honest, it might have been better for Big Blue if the deal to acquire the world’s largest supplier of support and packaging services for open source software had closed maybe one or two quarters ago. …
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Accelerating Compute By Cramming It Into DRAM Memory
Perhaps the biggest task that processor and system designers have to wrestle with these days is how to keep heavily cored and massively threaded processors fed with data. …
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IBM Readies Power9 “Bandwidth Beast” Kicker
Big Blue has become a big believer in using differential signaling to attach everything – and we mean everything – to the processor. …