What good is a floating point operation embodied in a vector or matrix unit if you can’t get data into fast enough to actually use the compute engine to process it in some fashion in a clock cycle? …
If you want to figure out what is going on with spending on the corporate datacenters of the world, a good place to start is to examine the financial results of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Dell Technologies, which are still the two largest original equipment makers for servers in the world. …
Here is a question for you: If hypervisors are going to eventually be offloaded to a DPU attached to the server node by a PCI-Express link, is the server considered bare metal or virtualized? …
Something that we have been waiting for a decade and a half to see has just happened: The datacenter is now the biggest business at Nvidia. …
We have a saying around here at The Next Platform, and it is this: Money is not the point of the game. …
Since 1965, the computer industry has relied on Moore’s Law to accelerate innovation, pushing more transistors into integrated circuits to improve computation performance. …
It is funny to think that in a certain light, AMD has Big Blue to thank for its resurgence in the datacenter. …
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