Compute
On-Chip Wizardry To Optimize Performance At Scale
As server chips have evolved from simple processors into complex, heterogeneous SoCs, it has become a lot more challenging to optimize the software running on them. …
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Broadening The Appeal Of Distributed NVM-Express Storage
NVM-Express has been creating a quiet revolution in servers for several years now, providing a way for flash storage to bypass the traditional storage stack and the limitations of interfaces such as SATA and SAS, and instead pipe data directly into and out of the CPU through the high-speed PCI Express bus. …
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Slicing Into The Post-K Supercomputer’s Tofu D Interconnect
Fujitsu has given us a peek at the future A64FX Arm server processor that it has forged for the future “Post-K” supercomputer that is being built by the Japanese government for the RIKEN laboratory, arguably the hotbed of HPC in the Land of the Rising Sun. …
Cloud
Are Hyperscalers And Clouds Builders Smashing Up An IT Pangea?
There are times when tectonic forces are at work in the IT world. …
Compute
Getting All Zen About AMD’s Datacenter Business
Imagine, if you will, that your two biggest rivals were Intel and Nvidia, and that you had to fight a two front war to storm the datacenter. …
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A Deep Dive Into Cisco’s Use Of Merchant Switch Chips
The incumbent switch makers of the world could learn a thing or two from the server racket. …
Enterprise
Hitachi Pulls Itself Together In The Datacenter
Hitachi is a massive multi-national conglomerate that has more than 300,000 employees and 950 subsidiaries and a reach that extends into a wide array of industries, from aircraft and automotive systems to telecommunications, construction, defense and financial services. …
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Successful Machine Learning With A Global Data Fabric
One of the most common misconceptions about machine learning is that success is solely due to its dynamic algorithms. …
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Fabrics Open The Way For Storage Class Memory
Dell EMC has long been a vocal proponent of NVM-Express, the up and coming protocol that cuts out the CPU jib-jab with PCI-Express peripherals and that boost throughput and drops latency for flash and other non-volatile memory. …
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Intel Teaches Quantum Computing 101
A team at Intel, in collaboration with QuTech in the Netherlands, is researching the possibilities of quantum computing to better understand how practical quantum computers can be programmed to impact our lives. …