AI
AMD Says AI Is The Number One Priority Right Now
When it comes to an economy, you get what we collectively expect. …
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HPC
Berkeley Lab Opens Bidding For Future NERSC-10 Exascale System
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, one of the key facilities of the US Department of Energy that drives supercomputing innovation and that spends big bucks so at least a few vendors will design and build them, has opened up the bidding on its future NERSC-10 exascale-class supercomputer. …
Compute
Finally: Some Good News For The Intel Xeon CPU Roadmap
It was a reasonable enough gut reaction given the many changes happening at Intel in recent months. …
HPC
Fujitsu To Fork Arm Server Chip Line To Chase Clouds
When it comes to chips, there is a big difference between a kicker and a fork. …
Connect
Setting The Stage For 1.6T Ethernet, And Driving 800G Now
Marvell has had a large and profitable I/O and networking silicon business for a long time, but with the acquisitions of Inphi in October 2020 and of Innovium in August 2021, the company is building a credible networking stack that can take on Broadcom, Cisco Systems, and Nvidia for the $1.3 billion or so in switch chips sold into the datacenter each year, which is growing at about 15 percent a year to more than $2 billion by 2026. …
Compute
Intel’s Datacenter Business Goes From Bad To Worse, With Worst Still To Come
Everybody expected that Intel was going to turn in a pretty bad final quarter in 2022, and even before it posted its numbers yesterday after the market closed, there were plenty of signals that it was going to be worse. …
HPC
Testing The Mettle Of The Top Supercomputing Iron On Earth
It’s fall, so that means it is the annual Super Computing conference that has been held in the United States by the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society since 1989. …
Compute
The Pax Chipzilla Is Over, And Intel Can’t Hold Back The Barbarians
It is the nature of big tech companies with near monopolies to start looking a bit like Rome in its Golden Age – the Pax Romana that held from when Augustus Caesar became emperor in 27 BC until Marcus Aurelius died in 180 AD. …
Compute
IBM Power10 Shreds Ice Lake Xeons For Transaction Processing
Here is a simple algebraic equation that describes the relative computing oomph of two different CPU architectures over the past two decades: If Intel an X86 core is X, then an IBM Power core equals 2X. …
HPC
Lawrence Livermore’s “El Capitan” To Take AMD’s Instinct APU Mainstream
In March 2020, when Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced the exascale “El Capitan” supercomputer contract had been awarded to system builder Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which was also kicking in its “Rosetta” Slingshot 11 interconnect and which was tapping future CPU and GPU compute engines from AMD, the HPC center was very clear that it would be using off-the-shelf, commodity parts from AMD, not custom compute engines. …