Microsoft Azure Blazes The Disaggregated Memory Trail With zNUMA
Dynamic allocation of resources inside of a system, within a cluster, and across clusters is a bin-packing nightmare for hyperscalers and cloud builders. …
Dynamic allocation of resources inside of a system, within a cluster, and across clusters is a bin-packing nightmare for hyperscalers and cloud builders. …
What is the most expensive component that hyperscalers and cloud builders put into their X86 servers? …
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. …
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. …
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. …
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. …
A system is more than its central processor, and perhaps at no time in history has this ever been true than right now. …
Big Blue has become a big believer in using differential signaling to attach everything – and we mean everything – to the processor. …
The growing imbalance between computational performance and data access performance has spurred the development of a number of new random access memory (RAM) technologies. …
We have heard much about the concept of dark silicon but there is a separate, related companion to this idea. …
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