Now that the on-again, off-again deal between Intel, the world’s largest maker of processors, and Altera, one of the dominant makers of field programmable gate arrays, is going to happen for the tidy sum of $16.7 billion in cash, Intel is poised to usher in a new era of computing while at the same time countering the many competitive threats it has in the datacenter. …
Might doesn’t make right in this world, but it sure helps. …
Everybody who is operating at any sort of scale is looking to pack more compute into a smaller space for less money. …
During his sabbatical at Twitter, GPU researcher and graph analytics whiz, UC Davis professor John Owens, made a list of the elements the social network might want to consider as it built out its recommendation and other real-time services. …
The breakup of Hewlett-Packard into two separate companies – one focused on the datacenter and the other on PCs and printers – doesn’t make any more sense than it did bringing all of these different businesses under the same roof in the first place. …
The server space was a-buzz this weekend with what looks like a big leak of Intel’s future Xeon processor and chipset roadmaps for the next couple of generations of machines. …
For some users in high performance computing and a growing range of deep learning and data-intensive application segments, the shift toward mixed (heterogeneous) architectures is becoming more common. …
IBM has been a pioneer in large scale, hybrid computing and has staked a substantial portion of the future of its Power platform, and the ones that partners are building in conjunction with it through the OpenPower Foundation, on the idea that various kinds of compute, storage, and interconnects will be used to fabricate systems that are precisely tailored to efficiently run specific workloads. …
The name of the game among the hyperscalers is to use their hardware and software engineering to get their infrastructure compute and storage costs coming down faster than the rate of Moore’s Law improvements for the components that make up their systems. …
The accelerator story for top supercomputers is a strong one, starting with GPUs, which were snapped in as coprocessors on some of the world’s largest systems over the last five years. …
All Content Copyright The Next Platform