Compute
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. …
AMD
Compute
The Steady Patience Of AMD In The Datacenter
We have said more than once in recent weeks that recessions accelerate technology transitions but they do not cause them. …
Compute
AMD Cranks The Rome Clocks, Keeping The Heat On Intel
One size definitely does not fit all workloads and one budget when it comes to server processors. …
Compute
The Metronomic Cadence Of Chippery From AMD
Companies invest in platforms over a decade or more, and that is why architectures persist longer than we might think given technological differences and economic forces. …
Compute
AMD Is Determined To Get Its Rightful Datacenter Share
There is an equally virtuous and vicious cycle that propels all computing: Innovation requires competition to propel it, and competition requires innovation to meet it; repeat or fade. …
HPC
Lawrence Livermore To Surpass 2 Exaflops With AMD Compute
As the steward of the nuclear weapon arsenal for the United States government, it is probably not an overstatement to say that Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of the main supercomputer and scientific research facilities operated by the Department of Energy, is keenly interested in bang for the buck. …
HPC
Weathering Heights: Of Resolutions And Ensembles
In the past year or so, watching supercomputer maker Cray, which is now part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, has been a bit like playing a country and western song backwards on the record player. …
Compute
Going Beyond Exascale Computing
One thing is certain: The explosion of data creation in our society will continue as far as pundits and anyone else can forecast. …
Compute
AMD Takes A Bigger Bite Out Of The Datacenter
It is hard to take on either Intel or Nvidia in their respectively dominant CPU and GPU markets, and credit is due to AMD for taking on both companies at the same time to try to carve itself a larger slice of the datacenter pie. …
Compute
Cache Is King
The gap between the performance of processors, broadly defined, and the performance of DRAM main memory, also broadly defined, has been an issue for at least three decades when the gap really started to open up. …