Compute
The Looming Arm Server Battle Between AWS And Microsoft
Wouldn’t it be funny if Google ends up being the stalwart supporter of the X86 architecture among the hyperscalers and cloud builders? …
Microsoft
Cloud
How Much Will Windows 365 PCs Drive Azure Infrastructure?
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. …
Connect
Will Open Compute Backing Drive SIOV Adoption?
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. …
Connect
Industry Behemoths Back Intel’s Universal Chiplet Interconnect
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. …
HPC
NCAR Pits Azure Cloud Against Its Own Big Iron For Climate Models
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. …
Connect
Surfing On The Ethernet Bandwidth Waves, Avoiding The Rocks
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. …
Control
Wanted: An Energy-Aware Datacenter Application Scheduler
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. …
Compute
With $3.1 Billion Valuation, What’s Ahead for PsiQuantum?
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. …
Cloud
Some Precise Data About Cloudy Infrastructure
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. …
Connect
Microsoft Does The Math On Azure Datacenter Switch Failures
As supercomputer centers have long known and as hyperscalers and cloud builders eventually learned, the larger the cluster, the greater the chance that one of the many components in the system will fail at any particular time. …