Compute
The Four Workhorses Of The Data Apocalypse
The days when the X86 processor could do just about every kind of processing in the datacenter are gone. …
Intel
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Hypercalers Lead The Way To The Future With SmartNICs
The consensus is growing among the big datacenter operators of the world that CPU cores are such a precious commodity that they should never do network, storage, or hypervisor housekeeping work but rather focus on the core computation that they are really acquired to do. …
Compute
Hyperscalers And Cloud Builders Resume Their Spending Spree
After two and a half quarters of tightening the purse strings, the world’s largest consumers of infrastructure – the eight major hyperscalers and cloud builders – plus their peers in the adjacent communications service provider space all started spending money on servers and storage again, and Intel can breathe a sigh of relief as it works to get its 10 nanometer manufacturing on track for the delivery of “Ice Lake” Xeon SP processors sometime in the second half of next year. …
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Cheering On The Optical I/O Inflection Point
In the past five years or so, we have had a remarkably good – and predictable – run of increases in aggregate switching bandwidth out of the major ASIC suppliers, and it has been a boon that underpins the massive expansion in datacenters among the hyperscalers. …
Cloud
Cloudy Supercomputers Join the HPC Petascale Club
Living in the future, as we do now, you no longer have to expend huge amounts of capital to build a petaflops-scale supercomputer. …
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Eating The Interconnect Alphabet Soup With Intel’s CXL
The dividing lines between system buses, system intraconnects, and system interconnects are getting more blurry all the time. …
Connect
Networking Needs More Than Incremental Innovation
The apocryphal Chinese curse – “May you live in interesting times” – certainly applies to the datacenter of the early 21st century. …
Connect
On-Chip Optical Links Are One Step Closer To Reality
Ayar Labs looks like it is just about ready to put its optical I/O chiplet technology into commercial datacenter products. …
HPC
SDSC Doubles Up Performance With Expanse Supercomputer
The San Diego Supercomputing Center is overdue for a new supercomputer and thanks to a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation, next year it will finally get one. …
Compute
Stratix 10 SX At The Heart Of Intel’s Most Powerful FPGA Accelerator
Intel has started shipping a new FPGA accelerator card based on the high-end Stratix 10 SX FPGA. …