Compute
HBM Gives Xeon SPs A Big Boost On Bandwidth Bound Work
If there is one bright spot in the Xeon SP server chip line from Intel, it is the version of the “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon SP processor that has HBM memory welded to it. …
Sapphire Rapids
Compute
One New Feature For Intel’s HPC Compute Engines: Contrition
It is very rare for any of the major semiconductor suppliers of the world to ever admit that things are going wrong, even when we all know that they have been. …
Compute
Intel Let The Chips Fall Where They Might
This day always comes. It is the nature of monopoly and hubris. …
Compute
Intel Adjusts, However Slowly, To New Realities In The Datacenter
While chip designer and maker Intel has a new strategy and a new executive team to implement it, it is going to take a long time for changes made last year and this year to be felt and for product and process roadmap changes to put the company into a better competitive situation. …
Compute
The Next – And More Profitable – 10 Percent Of Server Share For AMD
When this is all said and done, Intel will deserve some kind of award for keeping its 14 nanometer processes moving along enough as it gets its 10 nanometer and 7 nanometer processes knocked together to still, somehow, manage to retain dominant market share in the server space. …
HPC
How High-Bandwidth Memory Will Break Performance 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. …
Compute
Intel Finally Gets Chiplet Religion With Server Chips
When the top brass at Intel say that the “Sapphire Rapids” Xeon SP CPUs and “Ponte Vecchio” Xe HPC GPUs that are coming out early next year represent the “largest architectural shift in over a decade,” they ain’t kidding. …
AI
With AMX, Intel Adds AI/ML Sparkle to Sapphire Rapids
All processor designs are the result of a delicate balancing act, perhaps most touchy in the case of a high performance CPU that needs to be all things to users, whether they’re running large HPC simulations, handling transaction processing, dispatching training runs or whipping out inference results. …
Compute
Intel Delays “Sapphire Rapids” Server Chips, Confirms HBM Memory Option
It is a relatively quiet International Supercomputing conference on the hardware front, with no new processors or switch ASICs being announced from the usual suspects. …
HPC
With “Crossroads” Supercomputer, HPE Notches Another DOE Win
When you come to the crossroads and make a big decision about selling your soul to the devil to get what you want, it is supposed to be a dramatic event, the stuff that legends are made of. …