Connect
CXL Borgs IBM’s OpenCAPI, Weaves Memory Fabrics With 3.0 Spec
System architects are often impatient about the future, especially when they can see something good coming down the pike. …
composable
Store
Microsoft Azure Blazes The Disaggregated Memory Trail With zNUMA
Dynamic allocation of resources inside of a system, within a cluster, and across clusters is a bin-packing nightmare for hyperscalers and cloud builders. …
Store
The Future Of System Memory Is Mostly CXL
What is the most expensive component that hyperscalers and cloud builders put into their X86 servers? …
AI
Liqid Launches Its Own Systems, Chases AI And HPC
To hardware or not to hardware, that is a real question for vendors peddling all kinds of software in the datacenter. …
Compute
The Future Of Infrastructure Is Fluid
Flexibility is a kind of strength. It is just more subtle than brute force. …
Connect
Counting The Cost Of Under-Utilized GPUs – And Doing Something About It
The compute engines keep changing as the decades pass, but the same old problems keep cropping up in slightly different form. …
Connect
For HPC And AI, Composability Might Trump Cheap Flops
Maximizing the aggregate amount of compute that can be brought to bear for any given pile of money is what traditional high performance computing is all about. …
Connect
Datacenter Is The New Unit Of Compute, Open Networking Is How To Automate It
Datacenters have evolved from physical servers, to virtualized systems, and now to composable infrastructure where resources such as storage and persistent memory are disaggregated from the server. …
Connect
Pushing PCI-Express Fabrics Up To The Next Level
While the long overdue upgrade to PCI-Express 4.0 is finally coming to servers, allowing for high bandwidth links between processors and peripherals. …
Control
It Takes Liquidity To Make Infrastructure Fluid
Stranded capacity has always been the biggest waste in the datacenter, and over the years, we have added more and more clever kinds of virtualization – hardware partitions, virtual machines and their hypervisors, and containers – as well as the systems management tools that exploit them. …