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Intel Unrolls DPU Roadmap, With A Two Year Cadence
There is a fundamental disconnect between the cadence that chip makers want for their devices and what the hyperscalers and cloud builders would prefer. …
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Lawrence Livermore Kicks In Funds to Foster Omni-Path Networking
Decades before there were hyperscalers and cloud builders started creating their own variants of compute, storage, and networking for their massive distributed systems, the major HPC centers of the world fostered innovative technologies that may have otherwise died on the vine and never been propagated in the market at large. …
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Playing The Long Game With The Hyperscalers And Clouds
To build a very large IT business often takes a channel approach, where manufacturers sell a certain amount of their own product – say to the key 10 percent or 20 percent of their accounts – and then offload the rest of the sales job to a third party. …
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With $130 Million In Hand, Ayar Labs Looks To Commercialize Optical I/O
When it comes to co-packaged optical interconnects, there are two camps: Lasers in and lasers out. …
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With Aquila, Google Abandons Ethernet To Outdo InfiniBand
Frustrated by the limitations of Ethernet, Google has taken the best ideas from InfiniBand and Cray’s “Aries” interconnect and created a new distributed switching architecture called Aquila and a new GNet protocol stack that delivers the kind of consistent and low latency that the search engine giant has been seeking for decades. …
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AMD Makes A Big DPU Move With $1.9 Billion Bid For Pensando
Lisa Su has had the datacenter in her sights since taking over as president and chief executive officer of AMD in 2014, charting a course that would allow the processor maker to once again become a factor in the global server market after a decade or so in the wilderness following its brief but high-profile breakthrough with its first Opteron processor in 2003. …
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Spectrum-4 Ethernet Leaps To 800G With Nvidia Circuits
When Nvidia announced a deal to buy Mellanox Technologies for $6.9 billion in March 2019, everyone spent a lot of time thinking about the synergies between the two companies and how networking was going to become an increasingly important part of the distributed systems that run HPC and AI workloads. …
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Putting Composability Through The Paces On HPC Systems
With HPC and AI workloads only getting larger and demanding more compute power and bandwidth capabilities, system architects are trying to map out the best ways to feed the beast as they ponder future systems. …
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Will Open Compute Backing Drive SIOV Adoption?
Virtualization has been an engine of efficiency in the IT industry over the past two decades, decoupling workloads from the underlying hardware and thus allowing multiple workloads to be consolidated into a single physical system as well as moved around relatively easily with live migration of virtual machines. …
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Luminous Shines A Light On Optical Architecture For Future AI Supercomputer
It is not every day when we hear about a new supercomputer maker with a new architecture, but it is looking like Luminous Computing, a silicon photonics startup that has been pretty secretive about what it was up to, is going to be throwing its homegrown architecture into the ring. …