HPC
The Resurrection Of Cray And AMD In A Trifurcating HPC Space
Success in any endeavor is not just about having the right idea, but having that idea at the right time and then executing well against that plan. …
AMD
HPC
HPE And AMD Bag The Big Supercomputer Deal Down Under
Speaking very generally, investment in capability-class supercomputers by national governments tends to scale with gross domestic product. …
Compute
Pondering That Rumored $30 Billion AMD Acquisition Of Xilinx
You can have a strategy, but you can’t buy one.
Nothing illustrates this principle more than the networking buying binges that both Intel and AMD went on nearly a decade ago, which did not really amount to much in the end but which made some sort of sense in the middle of it all happening. …
Code
Porting to AMD GPUs in the Corona Age
“Times were simpler not so long ago” is an understatement these days, but when it comes to supercomputing, this has yet another meaning. …
Compute
Making HCI Hay While the Sun Shines
Whenever enterprise server buyers are shopping, they are not just comparing the possible options on the market today against each other. …
Compute
Balancing AMD’s Future On The Edge Of A Silicon Wafer
The hardest job at any chip designer that doesn’t actually own its own foundry – and maybe even those that do – is figuring out what wafer start commitment level to make for a new compute engine in the datacenter. …
Compute
The Battle For Enterprise Compute Begins In The Cloud
If the hyperscalers are a crystal ball in which we see the far-off future of compute, storage, and networking writ large and ahead of the mainstream, then the public cloud builders are a mirror in which we see the more immediate needs and desires of enterprises. …
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. …
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. …