Store
The Future Of System Memory Is Mostly CXL
What is the most expensive component that hyperscalers and cloud builders put into their X86 servers? …
Memory
Store
Meta Platforms Hacks CXL Memory Tier Into Linux
We have been excited about the possibilities of adding tiers of memory to systems, particularly persistent memories that are less expensive than DRAM but offer similar-enough performance and functionality to be useful. …
Control
The Five Horsemen of the Data Apocalypse
One could argue that the last few years have highlighted some of the most pressing semiconductor industry issues but there are challenges on the horizon well beyond current supply chain and silicon manufacturing bottlenecks. …
HPC
How High-Bandwidth Memory Will Break Performance Bottlenecks
Intel recently announced that High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) will be available on select “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon SP processors and will provide the CPU backbone for the “Aurora” exascale supercomputer to be sited at Argonne National Laboratory. …
Store
The Power Of Power10’s Memory Inception Clustering
Scanning through Power10’s detailed announcement material, I’ve seen a lot architecturally that intrigues an avid reader of The Next Platform like myself, but one item – one that IBM calls “Memory Inception” and IBM-based techie material calls enablement for a “memory cluster” – really caught my eye. …
Connect
Intel Declares A Truce Before Bus Wars Flare Up
A system is more than its central processor, and perhaps at no time in history has this ever been true than right now. …
Compute
IBM Readies Power9 “Bandwidth Beast” Kicker
Big Blue has become a big believer in using differential signaling to attach everything – and we mean everything – to the processor. …
Store
New Memory Technologies Poised for High Volume Production
The growing imbalance between computational performance and data access performance has spurred the development of a number of new random access memory (RAM) technologies. …
Compute
Shedding Light on Dark Bandwidth
We have heard much about the concept of dark silicon but there is a separate, related companion to this idea. …
Compute
Rambus, Microsoft Put DRAM Into Deep Freeze To Boost Performance
Energy efficiency and operating costs for systems are as important as raw performance in today’s datacenters. …