Compute
Can Marvell Profit As It Tries To Triple Its Business By 2028?
A rising tide may lift all boats, and that is a good thing these days with any company that has an AI oar in the water. …
Cavium
Compute
Taking A Deeper Dive Into Marvell’s “Triton” ThunderX3
Say what you will, but among the many vendors that have tried to break into the datacenter with Arm server chips, Marvell, by virtue of the hard work done by Cavium, which it acquired, and Broadcom, which sold its “Vulcan” design to Cavium when it exited the business, has been the most successful in terms of shipments and ecosystem. …
Compute
Stacking Up Arm Server Chips Against X86
It is pretty clear at this point that there is going to be a global recession thanks to the coronavirus outbreak. …
Compute
Marvell Cranks Up Cores And Clocks With “Triton” ThunderX3
Arm server chip upstart Ampere Computing made a big splash with its 80-core “Quicksilver” Altra processor two weeks ago, and Marvell, which is the volume leader in Arm server chips with its “Vulcan” ThunderX2 processors (largely inherited from its acquisition of Broadcom’s Arm server chip assets), is hitting back with some revelations about its future “Triton” ThunderX3 chip and its roadmap out beyond that. …
Compute
Looking Ahead To Marvell’s Future ThunderX Processors
If you are going to take on Intel in server processors, you have to play the same kind of long game that Intel itself played as it jumped from the desktop to the datacenter. …
HPC
ARM is the NNSA’s New Secret Weapon
It might have been difficult to see this happening a mere few years ago, but the National Nuclear Security Administration and one of its key supercomputing sites are looking past Intel to Arm-based supercomputers in hopes of reaching efficiency and memory bandwidth targets needed for nuclear stockpile simulations. …
Compute
Sandia Lends Arm A Hand In HPC With Astra Supercomputer
If the ecosystem for Arm processors is going to grow in the HPC arena, as many think it can, then someone has to make the initial investments in prototype hardware and help cultivate the software stack that will run on current and future Arm platforms. …
Cloud
Getting Logical About Cavium ThunderX2 Versus Intel Skylake
Any processor that hopes to displace the Xeon as the engine of choice for general purpose compute has to do one of two things, and we would argue both: It has to be a relatively seamless replacement for a Xeon processor inside of existing systems, much as the Opteron was back in the early 2000s, and it has to offer compelling advantages that yield better performance per dollar per watt per unit of space in a rack. …
Cloud
ThunderX2 Arms Hyperscale And HPC Compute
In the long run, networking chip giant and one-time server chip wannabe Broadcom might regret selling off its “Vulcan” 64-bit Arm chip business to Cavium, soon to be part of Marvell. …
Compute
Another Step In Building The HPC Ecosystem For Arm
Many of us are impatient for Arm processors to take off in the datacenter in general and in HPC in particular. …