Any performance comparisons across compute engines in use in a datacenter are always valid for a point in time since new CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and other ASICs are always coming into the market at different times. …
Here is a simple algebraic equation that describes the relative computing oomph of two different CPU architectures over the past two decades: If Intel an X86 core is X, then an IBM Power core equals 2X. …
It is pretty clear at this point that there is going to be a global recession thanks to the coronavirus outbreak. …
As server chips have evolved from simple processors into complex, heterogeneous SoCs, it has become a lot more challenging to optimize the software running on them. …
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