If you want to see what real competition might look like at some point in the future of the server racket, look no further than the Ethernet switch market, where switch ASICs and the companies that build switches alike have to fight for every dollar and make it up in volume every year without pause. …
In the modern distributed computing world, which is getting ever more disaggregated and some might say discombobulated, as every day passes, the architecture of the network in the datacenter is arguably the most important factor in determining if applications will perform well or not. …
This week Intel unveiled Compute Express Link (CXL), the chipmaker’s own cache coherent accelerator interconnect that it is grooming to become the industry standard. …
The related but distinct HPC and AI markets gave Nvidia a taste for building systems, and it looks like the company wants to control more of the hardware and systems software stack than it currently does given that it is willing to shell out $6.9 billion – just about all of the cash it has on hand – to acquire high-end networking equipment provider and long-time partner Mellanox Technologies. …
Mellanox Technologies has become a leading provider of networking hardware, particularly at the high performance end of the market where the company accounts for more than 70 percent of Ethernet ports shipped with speeds above 10 Gb/sec according to Crehan Research. …
The need to host, process, and transmit more data, in less time and more securely, is putting huge strain on existing datacenter network, server, and storage architectures, with the demands of specific applications like artificial intelligence, machine learning, image recognition, and data analytics exacerbating the problem. …
If you look at the very long history of Cray, the company has done a remarkable job expanding its market, not just participating in it. …
Applications do not need to use all elements of a system all the time, and usually not all at the same time for that matter. …
The center of gravity for data is continuing to shift from core datacenters to other parts well beyond the walls of those facilities. …
There hardly seems to be a month that doesn’t go by without a different IT supplier being rumored to want to acquire network device provider Mellanox Technologies, which has an intense focus on the high end, scale out, low latency segment of the datacenter switching market. …
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