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AMD Hits Reset On Server Business
AMD doesn’t talk much about servers these days, but it looks like the company is getting ready to revamp its server component business just as it is shutting down its SeaMicro unit. …
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The Unstoppable Intel Datacenter Group
Intel’s decades-long hard work in vanquishing most of the competing processor architectures from most of the workloads in the datacenter is paying off. …
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Details Emerge on Knights Hill Based Aurora Supercomputer
In the story we broke this morning about the forthcoming “Aurora” supercomputer set to be installed at Argonne National Laboratory—one of three pre-exascale machines that were part of the CORAL procurement between three national labs–we speculated that unlike the other two machines, which will be based on an OpenPower approach (Power9, Volta GPUs, and a new interconnect), the architecture of this system would be based on the third generation Knights family of chips from Intel, the Knights Hill processors. …
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Traders Bank On Server Switch Hybrids For Performance Boost
Drawing the lines where the server ends and the network begins is getting more and more difficult. …
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InfiniBand Too Quick For Ethernet To Kill
Try as it may, Ethernet cannot kill InfiniBand. For the foreseeable future, the very high-end of the server, storage, and database cluster spaces will need a network interconnect that can deliver the same or better bandwidth at lower latency than can Ethernet gear. …
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Driving The Ethernet Roadmap At 100X Speeds
Except for some edge cases where extreme low-latency or high bandwidth is absolutely required, the Ethernet protocol absolutely rules networking in the datacenter, around the campus, and in our homes. …
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Engineered Systems Stall, Modular Systems Still Growing
Tailoring systems for specific jobs is one of the foundational themes of The Next Platform, so we like to keep an eye on the segments of the systems market that have a particular platform bend to them. …
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Why Intel Might Buy FPGA Maker Altera
For the past two decades, Intel has taken on the processor makers for servers and storage in the datacenter and vanquished all but a few suppliers of alternative architectures from the glass house. …
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New Dune Chips Enable Heftier Switches
One size does not fit all when it comes to merchant silicon chips that are used to build network devices for enterprise, hyperscale, and service provider customers. …
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Facebook Ops Director On Breaking Open The Switch
Facebook and its peers in the hyperscale sector have been pushing the very closed network switch business to open up and embrace hardware designs that look more like X86 servers and that are based on a Linux operating system. …