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Once Again, Meta Buys Rather Than Builds A Supercomputer

May 25, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 7

For a company that has been so enthusiastic about designing and building its own infrastructure and datacenters, Meta Platforms, the parent company to Facebook as well as WhatsApp and Instagram and one of the champions of the metaverse virtual reality a lot of us first read about in Burning Chrome, sure has not been building its own AI supercomputers lately. …

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The Looming Arm Server Battle Between AWS And Microsoft

April 5, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Wouldn’t it be funny if Google ends up being the stalwart supporter of the X86 architecture among the hyperscalers and cloud builders? …

Cloud

How Much Will Windows 365 PCs Drive Azure Infrastructure?

April 5, 2022 Brandon Vigliarolo 0

At some point, if Microsoft has its way, a substantial amount of computing that enterprise end users do on PCs could end up running in the cloud, and that could have a dramatic effect on the depth and breadth of the Azure cloud. …

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Will Open Compute Backing Drive SIOV Adoption?

March 30, 2022 Daniel Robinson 0

Virtualization has been an engine of efficiency in the IT industry over the past two decades, decoupling workloads from the underlying hardware and thus allowing multiple workloads to be consolidated into a single physical system as well as moved around relatively easily with live migration of virtual machines. …

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Industry Behemoths Back Intel’s Universal Chiplet Interconnect

March 2, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

When the hyperscalers, the major datacenter compute engine suppliers, and the three remaining foundries with advanced node manufacturing capabilities launch a standard together on Day One, this is an unusual, significant, and pleasant surprise. …

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NCAR Pits Azure Cloud Against Its Own Big Iron For Climate Models

February 23, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

When people think of supercomputers, they think of a couple of different performance vectors (pun intended), but usually the first thing they think of is the performance of a big, parallel machine as it runs one massive job scaling across tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of cores working in concert. …

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Surfing On The Ethernet Bandwidth Waves, Avoiding The Rocks

February 15, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Any company making any kind of box – a server, a switch, a storage array – has three battles they need to fight here in 2022, one of which they did not have to worry about very much before the coronavirus pandemic and which is of prime importance these days. …

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Wanted: An Energy-Aware Datacenter Application Scheduler

January 7, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Around the world, the number and size of datacenters are both growing at a fast pace, and the devices housed in them are consuming more and more power as well to deliver ever-increasing performance. …

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With $3.1 Billion Valuation, What’s Ahead for PsiQuantum?

July 27, 2021 Nicole Hemsoth 0

It is clear computing is in for a revolution if a company can have unicorn status with its main product still a few years away. …

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Some Precise Data About Cloudy Infrastructure

May 20, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The things we like best about watching the high end of the IT sector are seeing new technologies come out that have the potential to change the IT landscape and then seeing some market data that proves a technology either did or did not foment the expected change. …

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