Compute
A Deep Dive Into AMD’s Rome Epyc Architecture
In any chip design, the devil – and the angel – is always in the details. …
Epyc
Compute
AMD Doubles Down – And Up – With Rome Epyc Server Chips
It has been a long time coming: The day when AMD can put a processor up against any Xeon that Intel can deliver and absolutely compete on technology, price, predictability of availability, and consistency of roadmap looking ahead. …
Compute
Rome Is The Fulcrum Of AMD’s Datacenter Pivot
The good news about having a diverse product line, as chip maker AMD increasingly does, is that the company operates like a multi-cylinder engine and that not all of the lines need to be firing full bore for the business to accelerate down its roadmap. …
HPC
AMD Garners Academic Credentials With New Supercomputer Wins
AMD’s second-generation Epyc processor, code-named “Rome,” has yet to be released into the wild, but it is already racking up some impressive wins in academic supercomputing. …
Compute
AMD Puts Epyc In The HPC Driver’s Seat
It was a long time coming but AMD is finding its footing again in the high performance computing space. …
AI
The CPU Still Matters In The AI Stack
The CPU does not rule the computing roost when it comes to machine learning training, but it still has a role when it comes to machine learning inference and for other kinds of data analytics related to machine learning. …
AI
Cray, AMD Tag Team On 1.5 Exaflops “Frontier” Supercomputer
The competition for the compute engines in hybrid HPC and AI supercomputer systems is heating up, and it is beginning to look a bit like back to the future with Cray on the rise and AMD also revitalized. …
HPC
Back To The HPC Future With Next Generation AMD Epyc Processors
(Sponsored Content) By its very nature, high performance computing is conflicted. …
Cloud
AWS Adds More Epyc Compute To EC2
For the first decade that Amazon Web Services was in operation, its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) raw compute was available in precisely one flavor: Intel Xeon. …
Compute
Voracious Appetite For Compute Is The New Normal
The hyperscalers and cloud builders of the world put a third of their installed base into the trash compactor every year because it is much less costly for them to keep upgrading machinery than it is to operate older stuff that eats space and burns power and cooling less efficiently. …