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Minimalist Hyperscale Servers For The Rest Of Us

March 26, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

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. …

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Future Kubernetes Will Mimic What Facebook Already Does

June 10, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

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. …

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How Facebook Might Find Nervana For Machine Learning Training

March 25, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

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. …

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Computational Storage Takes Data Locality To The Extreme

March 22, 2019 Michael Feldman 0

As the center of gravity shifts from compute to data, architectures are responding by moving the former a lot closer to the latter. …

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On The Hot Seat In The Hyperscale Datacenter

March 20, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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. …

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How To Benefit From Facebook’s New Network Fabric

March 20, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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. …

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Open Compute Takes Root Outside Of Hyperscalers

March 19, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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. …

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Inside Facebook’s Future Machine Learning Platforms

March 15, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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. …

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Hyperscaler And Cloud Server Feeding Frenzy Abates

January 25, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

For the first time in a very long time, and even including the Great Recession, chip maker Intel booked less revenue in the fourth quarter of the year than it did in the third quarter of that same year. …

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Huawei Jumps Into The Arm Server Chip Fray

January 8, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Arm chip designers who make processors for mobile devices, such as Apple, Samsung, and Qualcomm, that do not have pre-existing server businesses have been skittish about entering the server fray with heftier versions of their Arm chips for datacenter compute. …

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