Cloud
Designing Chips With The Cloud And Edge In Mind
Renee James knows about processors and she knows about the cloud. …
Hyperscale
Code
How Facebook Architects Around Silent Data Corruption
Silent but deadly: there is nothing more destructive than data corruptions that cannot be caught by the various error capture tools in hardware and even in software, can be hard to spot before they have infected an entire application. …
Compute
Minimalist Hyperscale Servers For The Rest Of Us
Server component and system maker Supermicro is known for being out in front when any X86 processor comes to market and often shoots the gap between ODMs, who have a relatively small number of large customers, and OEMs, who have a large number of relatively small customers. …
Control
Future Kubernetes Will Mimic What Facebook Already Does
If you want to see what the future of the Kubernetes container management system will look like, then the closed source, homegrown Tupperware container control system that Facebook has been using and evolving since 2011 – before Docker containers and Kubernetes were around – might be a good place to find inspiration. …
AI
How Facebook Might Find Nervana For Machine Learning Training
There is a rumor going around that a certain hyperscaler is going to be augmenting its GPU-based machine learning training and will be adopting Intel’s Nervana Neural Network Processor (NNP) for at least some of its workloads. …
Edge
Computational Storage Takes Data Locality To The Extreme
As the center of gravity shifts from compute to data, architectures are responding by moving the former a lot closer to the latter. …
Compute
On The Hot Seat In The Hyperscale Datacenter
As one of the dominant hyperscalers in the world, Microsoft is out there on the cutting edge, driving efficiencies on every front it can in server, storage, switching, software, and datacenter design. …
Connect
How To Benefit From Facebook’s New Network Fabric
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. …
Compute
Open Compute Takes Root Outside Of Hyperscalers
When Facebook open sourced the hardware and datacenter designs of its very first homegrown datacenter in Prineville, Oregon nearly eight years ago, creating the Open Compute Project, it was an act of enlightened self-interest. …
AI
Inside Facebook’s Future Machine Learning Platforms
The hyperscalers and cloud builders of the world build things that often look and feel like supercomputers if you squint your eyes a little, but if you look closely, you can often see some pretty big differences. …