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Pushing PCI-Express Switches And Retimers To Boost Server Bandwidth

March 6, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 7

Things would go a whole lot better for server designs if we had a two year or better still a four year moratorium on adding faster compute engines to machines. …

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The Tipping Point For PCI-Express Fabrics

September 16, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off on The Tipping Point For PCI-Express Fabrics

In the longest of runs, say within the next five to ten years, in the large datacenters of the world, the server chassis as we know it will no longer exist. …

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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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How To Benefit From Facebook’s New Network Fabric

March 20, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off on How To Benefit From Facebook’s New Network Fabric

In the modern distributed computing world, which is getting ever more disaggregated and some might say discombobulated, as every day passes, the architecture of the network in the datacenter is arguably the most important factor in determining if applications will perform well or not. …

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Cisco Stretches ACI Network Fabrics, Eases Management

October 13, 2017 Jeffrey Burt Comments Off on Cisco Stretches ACI Network Fabrics, Eases Management

For disaster recovery, political, and organizational reasons, enterprises like to have multiple datacenters, and now they are going hybrid with public cloud capacity adding in the mix. …

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