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CXL Borgs IBM’s OpenCAPI, Weaves Memory Fabrics With 3.0 Spec

August 9, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 15

System architects are often impatient about the future, especially when they can see something good coming down the pike. …

Store

Microsoft Azure Blazes The Disaggregated Memory Trail With zNUMA

July 11, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

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

July 5, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 15

What is the most expensive component that hyperscalers and cloud builders put into their X86 servers? …

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Liqid Launches Its Own Systems, Chases AI And HPC

March 17, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

To hardware or not to hardware, that is a real question for vendors peddling all kinds of software in the datacenter. …

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The Future Of Infrastructure Is Fluid

March 4, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

Flexibility is a kind of strength. It is just more subtle than brute force. …

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Counting The Cost Of Under-Utilized GPUs – And Doing Something About It

November 17, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

The compute engines keep changing as the decades pass, but the same old problems keep cropping up in slightly different form. …

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For HPC And AI, Composability Might Trump Cheap Flops

October 27, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

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. …

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Datacenter Is The New Unit Of Compute, Open Networking Is How To Automate It

August 4, 2020 Ami Badani 2

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

March 27, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

While the long overdue upgrade to PCI-Express 4.0 is finally coming to servers, allowing for high bandwidth links between processors and peripherals. …

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It Takes Liquidity To Make Infrastructure Fluid

November 14, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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. …

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