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Turbulence – And Opportunity – Ahead In The Oracle Sparc Base
You can’t swing a good-sized cat without hitting an enterprise running Oracle software in some shape or form. …
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Is M8 The Last Hurrah For Oracle Sparc?
Intel is not the only system maker that is looking to converge its processor lines to make life a bit simpler for itself and for its customers as well as to save some money on engineering work. …
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Fujitsu Takes On IBM Power9 With Sparc64-XII
While a lot of the applications in the world run on clusters of systems with a relatively modest amount of compute and memory compared to NUMA shared memory systems, big iron persists and large enterprises want to buy it. …
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Oracle Takes On Xeons With Sparc S7
It is an accepted principle of modern infrastructure that at a certain scale, customization like that done by Google, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, or Baidu pays off. …
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Inside Oracle’s New Sparc M7 Systems
The core counts keep going up and up on server processors, and that means system makers do not have to scale up their systems as far to meet a certain performance level. …
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Oracle Aims “Sonoma” Sparc At Scale Out Clusters
The vast majority of the so-called “engineered systems” that Oracle sells into datacenters are based on Intel Xeon processors. …
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Upscale AI Nabs Cash To Forge “SkyHammer” Scale Up Fabric Switch
The first company that can make a UALink switch with high radix – meaning lots of ports – and high aggregate bandwidth across those ports that can compete toe-to-toe with Nvidia’s NVSwitch memory fabric and NVLink ports is going to make a lot of money. …
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Why Is Japan Still Investing In Custom Floating Point Accelerators?
It has taken nearly two decades and an immense amount of work by millions of people for high performance computing to go mainstream with GenAI. …
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Nvidia Tapped To Accelerate RIKEN’s FugakuNext Supercomputer
It has been clear for some time that Japan wants to have a certain amount of economic and technical independence when it comes to cloud computing in the Land of the Rising Sun. …
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Upstart Xsight Labs Raises Up The Programmable Switch Banner High
The best minds in networking spent the better part of two decades wrenching the control planes of switches and routers out of network devices and putting them into external controllers. …