Compute
This Is What The Most Powerful Server In The World Looks Like
While we are big fans of distributed computing systems here at The Next Platform, we never forget our heritage in big iron. …
Power10
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. …
Compute
Why IBM Is Suing GlobalFoundries Over Chip Roadmap Failures
The tight linkage between chip designs and chip manufacturing processes has caused its share of havoc in the IT sector, and it is getting worse as Moore’s Law has slowed and Dennard scaling died a decade ago. …
Compute
Ladies And Gentlemen, Start Your Compute Engines
We have a bad case of the silicon shakes and a worsening deficiency in iron here at The Next Platform, but the good news is that new CPU processors from AMD and Intel are imminent, and more processors are expected later this year from IBM and Ampere Computing, too. …
Compute
The Memory Area Network At The Heart Of IBM’s Power10
It must have been something in the cosmic ether.
Apopros of nothing except the need to fill a blank page with something interesting back when we were analyzing IBM’s second quarter financials and considering the options that Big Blue has with the “Cirrus” Power10 systems it will be launching about a year from now, we did a thought experiment about what it would mean if IBM started to believe in big iron machines again. …
Compute
IBM Brings An Architecture Gun To A Chip Knife Fight
For the past several years here at The Next Platform, as we have been pondering what IBM might do with the future Power10 processor, we have been feinting here and there with our analytical pen, trying to suss out precisely what Big Blue might be up to, particularly with the unique memory architecture that it has been working on for more than a decade. …
Compute
Big Blue Should Start Believing In Big Iron Again
There isn’t really a systems business so much as a collection of them, all unique and all facing their own particular challenges. …
HPC
HPC In 2020: Compute Engine Diversity Gets Real
The choice of processors available for high performance computing has been on growing for a number of years. …
HPC
Bending The Supercomputing Cost Curve Down
One of the recurring themes at the recent HPC Day event that we hosted ahead of the SC19 supercomputing conference in Denver was that capability class supercomputers are getting more and more expensive. …
Compute
The Potential Of Red Hat Plus Power Is Larger Than Exascale
Red Hat is coming onto IBM’s books at just the right time, and to be honest, it might have been better for Big Blue if the deal to acquire the world’s largest supplier of support and packaging services for open source software had closed maybe one or two quarters ago. …