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Crafting A DGX-Alike AI Server Out Of AMD GPUs And PCI Switches

August 15, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

Not everybody can afford an Nvidia DGX AI server loaded up with the latest “Hopper” H100 GPU accelerators or even one of its many clones available from the OEMs and ODMs of the world. …

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Just How Bad Is CXL Memory Latency?

December 5, 2022 Tobias Mann 7

Conventional wisdom says that trying to attach system memory to the PCI-Express bus is a bad idea if you care at all about latency. …

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Composing The Impossible Server

January 12, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off on Composing The Impossible Server

Paid Feature There are many ways to scale up and scale out systems, and that is a problem as much as it is a solution for distributed systems architects. …

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The Tipping Point For PCI-Express Fabrics

September 16, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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

November 17, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

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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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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Taking The PCI Express To Malleable Systems

December 3, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

It took decades for server virtualization to go mainstream, making their way from hardware and software partitions on mainframes three decades ago down to proprietary and Unix systems two decades ago to X86 servers with VMware, XenServer, Microsoft, and Red Hat all doing their part. …

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The HPC Community Should Lead In Composability

November 12, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

It is a rare HPC cluster that is actually upgraded – meaning some of the components in the servers or the networks or the storage that comprise the system are swapped out somewhere about halfway through its lifecycle and replaced with cheaper, faster, or more capacious components. …

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A New Twist On PCI-Express Switching For The Datacenter

October 2, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

While there are plenty of distributed applications that are going to chew through the hundreds of gigabits per second of bandwidth per port that modern Ethernet or InfiniBand ASICs deliver inside of switches, there are still others that might benefit from having a more streamlined stack that is also more malleable and composable. …

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