Cloud
Microsoft Azure Adds GPUs, Beefs Up CPU Compute
For certain kinds of modeling, simulation, and machine learning workloads, the advent of GPU coprocessors has been a watershed event. …
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Compute
Three Secrets Of How Facebook Copes With Scale
The entire premise of language and the storage of communication is founded on a principle that we can learn from the mistakes and successes of others. …
AI
Airbnb Shares The Keys To Its Infrastructure
There was something ironic about meeting Mike Curtis, the vice president of engineering at Airbnb, in a hotel in lower Manhattan. …
AI
How Can IBM Power8 Win Deals Away From Intel Xeon?
This is not the first time that Big Blue has found itself the underdog in the datacenter, and it probably will not be the last time, either. …
Compute
Intel Stacks Knights Landing Chips Next To Xeons
The “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi processor from Intel will be shipping by the end of the year and ramping in volume through 2016, and it is set to shake up the systems market in a number of significant ways. …
Compute
Future Systems: Intel Ponders Breaking Up The CPU
When it comes to systems, the first thing that most people think of is compute. …
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Momentum Building For Knights Landing Xeon Phi
Intel is the undisputed champion when it comes to computing in the datacenter, and it is looking to vanquish IBM’s Power processors from enterprise systems and supercomputer clusters and to keep the handful of ARM server chip upstarts at bay as they try to get in the datacenter door, too. …
Compute
GPU Computing Still Nascent On Public Clouds
The public cloud is precisely as conservative and innovative as the enterprise customers that make use of it. …
HPC
For Next Generation Supercomputers, What’s Old is New Again
When one thinks about the largest supercomputing sites on the planet and the approach to examining future technologies for next-generation systems, it might seem logical to guess they are at the bleeding edge of exploring entirely new, under-the-radar architectures and approaches that could spike the curve of Moore’s Law. …
Compute
X86 Servers Dominate The Datacenter–For Now
It has always been our contention that recessions drive successive waves of technology transitions in the datacenter. …