Lenovo Goes Double Barrel With AMD “Rome” Epycs
Kamran Amini was an executive at IBM in the mid-2000s when the company first put AMD’s then-relatively new Opteron processors into some of its System x servers. …
Kamran Amini was an executive at IBM in the mid-2000s when the company first put AMD’s then-relatively new Opteron processors into some of its System x servers. …
With the ramping of volumes, the maturing of the manufacturing process, and the widening number of use cases in the field, there is always an opportunity for the lineup of every type and generation of compute engine to get some tweaks here and there. …
Good news is continuing to gather around AMD’s second-generation “Rome” Epyc processors. …
In any chip design, the devil – and the angel – is always in the details. …
AMD had been down this road before. In 2003, the chip maker launched the “SledgeHammer” Opteron, the first 64-bit X86 server processor with backward compatibility to its 32-bit predecessors that came at a time when much larger rival Intel was still pumping up Itanium as the next-generation architecture – and its only 64-bit option. …
It has been a long time coming: The day when AMD can put a processor up against any Xeon that Intel can deliver and absolutely compete on technology, price, predictability of availability, and consistency of roadmap looking ahead. …
It was a long time coming but AMD is finding its footing again in the high performance computing space. …
In theory, customers running HPC simulation and modeling applications want to cram as much compute in as small of a space as they can. …
(Sponsored Content) By its very nature, high performance computing is conflicted. …
For the first decade that Amazon Web Services was in operation, its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) raw compute was available in precisely one flavor: Intel Xeon. …
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