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AWS Adopts Arm V2 Cores For Expansive Graviton4 Server CPU

November 28, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

For more than a year, we have been expecting for Amazon Web Services to launch its Graviton4 processor for its homegrown servers at this year’s re:Invent, and lo and behold, chief executive officer Adam Selipsky rolled out the fourth generation in the Graviton CPU lineup – and the fifth iteration including last year’s overclocked Graviton3E processor aimed at HPC workloads – during his thrombosis-inducing keynote at the conference. …

HPC Pioneers Pave The Way For A Flood Of Arm Supercomputers

November 28, 2023 Tobias Mann 1

Over the past few years, the Arm architecture has made steady gains, particularly among the hyperscalers and cloud builders. …

How Long Before AI Servers Take Over The Market?

October 23, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 10

When hyperscalers and cloud builders think about their infrastructure, they talk about megawatts and they think about the mix of serving and storage and the total capacity that is delivered in a megawatt of power. …

Compute

Other Than Nvidia, Who Will Use Arm’s Neoverse V2 Core?

September 13, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

We are still plowing through the many, many presentions from the Hot Interconnects, Hot Chips, Google Cloud Next, and Meta Networking @ Scale conferences that all happened recently and at essentially the same time. …

Compute

Arm Gets Closer To Creating Full-Blown Server CPU Designs

August 31, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 7

It takes too long to get a new compute engine in the field, and everybody complains about it. …

Compute

Ampere Gets Out In Front Of X86 With 192-Core “Siryn” AmpereOne

May 18, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

The largest clouds will always have to buy X86 processors from Intel or AMD so long as the enterprises of the world – and the governments and educational institutions who also consume a fair number of servers – have X86 applications that are not easily ported to Arm or RISC-V architectures. …

Compute

India Declares CPU Independence With Aum HPC Processor

May 17, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 12

At the moment, the most powerful Arm processor on the planet is the 48-core A64FX processor from Fujitsu, which was created as the heavily vectored compute engine for the “Fugaku” supercomputer at RIKEN Lab in Japan. …

Compute

Money Changes Everything For SiPearl

April 5, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

If you think designing a new CPU from scratch is hard, you ought to try raising money to do it. …

HPC

Fujitsu To Fork Arm Server Chip Line To Chase Clouds

March 15, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

When it comes to chips, there is a big difference between a kicker and a fork. …

HPC

Who’s Going To Build The UK’s Homegrown Exascale Supercomputer?

March 14, 2023 Jeffrey Burt 3

The years-long run-up to the first exascale supercomputers was really a story about the ongoing competition between the United States and China. …