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Cray-Now-HPE Issues Network Performance Challenge – And Cooperation – With GPCNeT Benchmark
It happens all the time. There is a performance problem, and everyone blames the network. …
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Staking The Claim For The Real DPU
As we all know well, the various elements computer architecture swing on their own pendulums, with consolidated being at the center and distributed being at the opposite ends of the arc. …
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The Tech Tricks That Make PCI-Express 6.0 And Beyond Possible
Multiplying things by two and putting them on a roadmap is easy, even if it does take a lot of courage to do that. …
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Switch ASIC Thoroughbred Sprouts Wings To Attain Unicorn Status
It takes money to make money, and if you want to break into the switch ASIC business in the datacenter, even if you are a low-cost designer of such chips, you had better have some rich friends to help the business take off. …
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Datacenter Is The New Unit Of Compute, Open Networking Is How To Automate It
Datacenters have evolved from physical servers, to virtualized systems, and now to composable infrastructure where resources such as storage and persistent memory are disaggregated from the server. …
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The Style Of Cloud Networking In The Corporate Datacenter
It is easy to understand the lure of the public cloud’s siren call. …
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One Network Operating System To Rule Them All
Networks may not be the most expensive thing in the datacenter – they typically comprise about 10 percent to 15 percent of the cost of a distributed system, including cables, transceivers, switches, and routers – but they are without a doubt the most complex part of distributed systems. …
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Before Long, Datacenter Will Be Nvidia’s Biggest Business
It is hard to remember sometimes way back when, in 2008, as Nvidia first took a stab at GPU compute in the datacenter with the original Tesla GPU accelerators and a very rudimentary CUDA programming environment for offloading parallel algorithms from CPUs to GPUs. …
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Is Microsoft’s SONiC Winning The War Of The NOSes?
There are many things that are ironic in the IT business. …
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Innovium Stays On Broadcom’s Heels With Teralynx 8 Switch Chips
There is a relentless hunger for bandwidth in the largest datacenters of the world as well as a desire to flatten networks and thereby reduce latencies and the cost of the networks that interconnect servers and storage to provide modern applications. …