Cloud
Server Market Stats Mask True Underlying Value
You have no doubt heard the one about making it up in volume, a jokey phrase that people use when a business has to crank out more and more widgets to stay in the same place. …
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Compute
Supercomputing Benchmarks Bending in New Directions
Whether it is IBM with the data-centric approach to next generation supercomputers or Intel with its scalable systems framework, there is little doubt that these and other major players in HPC are thinking differently about how to architect and benchmark systems in a way that balances floating point performance with the other equally important leg of the stool—data movement. …
Compute
Applied Micro Chases Xeons With X-Gene 3 And NUMA
If ARM processors are going to get traction in the datacenter, they will have to do so outside of the conservative glass houses of large enterprises. …
Code
A New Era of Open Competition for HPC Begins
Every year people ask me what I think the biggest news story is at the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC). …
Compute
ARM Servers: What Can AMD Do, And How Fast?
As we pointed out in the analysis opening up this series on the future prospects for ARM-based servers, it has been quite a challenge getting all of the hardware, software, and money lined up to storm the datacenter. …
Compute
SGI Targets Oracle In-Memory On Big Iron
For the past several years, SGI has been extending itself beyond its traditional supercomputing customer base out into the broader enterprise at large. …
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. …
Enterprise
Flash Disruption Comes To Server Main Memory
Flash memory is cheap, but it isn’t fast, at least not by the standards of DRAM. …
Compute
Future Systems: Can Exascale Revive AMD?
We spend a lot of time in the upper stratospheres of computing among the hyperscale and HPC crowds here at The Next Platform, and the consistent theme across these two similar but often very different customers bases is that we need a new system architecture that provides better performance at a lower cost and in a lower thermal envelope and an expanded memory hierarchy that can help with those goals. …