Compute
AMD Draws 30X Efficiency Increase Line In The Datacenter Silicon
If you don’t measure something, you can’t manage it. And if you don’t set ambitious goals, then you can’t attain them. …
Epyc
HPC
HPC Efficiency Gurus Grapple with AMD’s RAPL
Exascale-class energy efficiency cannot be defined by a simple number. Although Green500 energy efficiency HPC rankings provide a one-shot view into performance/efficiency, the complex interplay between large system operating systems, real-world applications, and the various tuning capabilities is worth digging into. …
Compute
AMD 3rd Gen Epyc CPUs Put Intel Xeon SPs On Ice In The Datacenter
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Compute
AMD Is Finally Trusted In The Datacenter Again
This is how a competitive chip market is supposed to look, and this is how a competitive chip maker recovers from faults, competes against a seemingly unassailable foe, and then rides up the revenue and income curves to be able to invest in the future and profit from the present. …
Cloud
Google Does The Server Math With Tau Cloud Instances
In a world where Moore’s Law is slowing and hardware has to be increasingly co-designed with the system software stack and the applications that run above it, the matrix of possible combinations of hardware is getting wider and deeper. …
Compute
AMD Finally Breaks The 10 Percent Server Share Barrier
History doesn’t really repeat itself, but it surely does use a lot of synonyms and rhymes, and sometimes, if you listen very closely, you can catch it muttering to itself. …
Compute
AMD Hits Intel Below The Belt In The Datacenter Wallet
What Intel calls “cloud digestion” as the cause of the massive pullback in spending in its Data Center Group is looking more and more like a case of “Epyc indigestion” for Intel, not for the hyperscalers and cloud builders. …
Compute
Deep Dive Into AMD’s “Milan” Epyc 7003 Architecture
The “Milan” Epyc 7003 processors, the third generation of AMD’s revitalized server CPUs, is now in the field, and we await the entry of the “Ice Lake” Xeon SPs from Intel for the next jousting match in the datacenter to begin. …
Compute
AMD’s Top Brass Take Another Swing At Intel With Milan Epycs
It has been a long time – more than 15 years – since AMD has been in a position to pressure larger rival Intel in supplying processors to server OEMs and ODMs for the datacenter. …
Compute
The Third Time Charm Of AMD’s Milan Epyc Processors
With every passing year, as AMD first talked about its plans to re-enter the server processor arena and give Intel some real, much needed, and very direct competition and then delivered again and again on its processor roadmap, it has gotten easier and easier to justify spending at least some of the server CPU budget with Intel’s archrival in the X86 computing arena. …