It was a fortuitous coincidence that Nvidia was already working on massively parallel GPU compute engines for doing calculations in HPC simulations and models when the machine learning tipping point happened, and similarly, it was fortunate for InfiniBand that it had the advantage of high bandwidth, low latency, and remote direct memory access across GPUs at that same moment. …
High performance systems have a long history of using water cooling, but advancements in semiconductor technology in the 1980s allowed for big iron to have a few decades of using air cooling. …
The switching market has its ups and downs depending on the upgrade cycle for server processors and the nature of the economy at any given time. …
The field is littered with the remnants of Arm and RISC-V server startups. …
Businesses are judged quarter on quarter and year on year, but you have to look at the long haul and the flow of all business over time to really judge properly. …
In 2019, Hewlett Packard Enterprise was the first top-tier tech vendor to make the plunge, announcing that it planned to make its entire portfolio – all of its hardware as well as software – available as a service by 2022, leveraging its GreenLake hybrid cloud platform to answer the call to make the on-premises datacenter experience as cloud-like as possible. …
There is nothing wrong with buying a compute, storage, or networking appliance where the ASICs and software both come from the same supplier. …
If you can’t beat the cloud, you had better steal all of its best ideas. …
Any company that holds more than a quarter of a market – by money or shipments – is doing pretty well. …
The center of gravity for data is continuing to shift from core datacenters to other parts well beyond the walls of those facilities. …
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