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Future Proofing Inference Servers With PCI-Express Switches

March 27, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

At this point in the history of datacenter systems, there can be no higher praise than to be chosen by Nvidia as a component supplier for its AI systems. …

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Compute Is The Boon And The Bane Of Supercomputing

August 1, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Compute drives supercomputing, and networking is the chassis and storage just comes along for the ride. …

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Cray’s Ever-Expanding Compute For HPC

April 19, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

With choice comes complexity, and the Cambrian explosion in compute options is only going to make this harder even if it is a much more satisfying intellectual and financial challenge. …

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InfiniBand And Proprietary Networks Still Rule Real HPC

June 30, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

With the network comprising as much as a quarter of the cost of a high performance computing system and being absolutely central to the performance of applications running on parallel systems, it is fair to say that the choice of network is at least as important as the choice of compute engine and storage hierarchy. …

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Cray Outpaces HPC Market, Books Historic Quarter

February 9, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

It is hard to tell which part of the systems market is lumpier – that for traditional HPC systems like supercomputers or that for massive cluster deployments for the hyperscalers that run public clouds and public facing applications on a massive scale. …

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Networks Drive HPC Harder Than Compute

November 20, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

It is hard to tell which part of the HPC market is more competitive: compute, networking, or storage. …

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Bigger Iron Drives Better NOAA Weather Forecasts

January 13, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Not every organization that relies on supercomputers can replace a whole machine in one fell swoop. …

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Cray CTO Connects The Dots On Future Interconnects

January 8, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The bottlenecks never get removed from a system, they just shift around as you change one component or the other. …

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A New Age In Cluster Interconnects Dawns

November 22, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

Proprietary and quasi-proprietary interconnects are nothing new to the supercomputing space, and in fact, this is where they still live and thrive and evolve. …

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Intel Rounds Out Scalable Systems With Omni-Path

November 16, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Even though Intel is best known in the datacenter as the maker of server processors and their chipsets, the company has increasingly become a platform thinker in the past decade. …

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