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. …
Intel
Connect
Intel Goes Barefoot As It Leaves The Omni-Path
The handwriting has been on the wall for some time now, but Intel has quietly dropped its 200 Gb/sec Omni-Path networking from its roadmaps and will be using other technology for interconnects going forward. …
Compute
Real Competition Puts Intel Data Center Group In The Pinchers
There has never been a better time to wait to buy processors for servers, and in the second quarter of this year, based on the financial results that Intel has turned in, many companies did just that. …
AI
Intel Prepares To Graft Google’s Bfloat16 Onto Processors
Training deep neural networks is one of the more computationally intensive applications running in datacenters today. …
Connect
Intel Finally Serious About Switching with Barefoot Networks Buy
In one fell swoop, Intel has finally filled a giant hole in its switching product line by acquiring upstart Barefoot Networks, the creator of the P4 programming language for networking devices and the “Tofino” family of Ethernet switch ASICs that make use of it. …
Compute
A New Era In Servers Is Starting Now
You know the world is a different place when shipping 2.58 million servers in a quarter feels like a slowdown, a disappointment, and perhaps a leading indicator of an overall economic slowdown in the world. …
Store
Those Without Persistent Memory Are Fated To Repeat It
We have published a number of stories lately that talk about the innovative uses of Intel’s 3D XPoint Optane persistent memory modules, which are a key component of the company’s “Cascade Lake” Xeon SP systems and which are also becoming a foundational technology in clustered storage based on NVM-Express over Fabrics interconnects from a number of storage upstarts. …
HPC
DUG Sets Foundation For Exascale HPC Utility With Xeon Phi
While exascale systems, even at the single precision computational capability commonly used in the oil and gas industry, will cost on the order of $250 million, that cost pales in comparison to the capital outlay of drilling exploratory deep water wells, which can cost $100 million a pop. …
Compute
Intel Gives Moore’s Law A Makeover
Intel’s struggles to get its 10 nanometer processors out the door has forced the company to do some serious soul-searching. …
Compute
Is That Canary In The Datacenter Feeling Dizzy?
The market for servers used to be a lot more predictable in the past, with a portion of the tens millions of companies worldwide buying machinery in their own cycles that more or less coincided with the global gross domestic product. …