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HPE Superdome Flex: The Other Big Iron In The Datacenter
Not every workload can be chunked up and spread across a relatively loosely coupled cluster of cheap X86 server nodes. …
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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. …
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. …
Compute
Talking Servers With Inspur And Intel
Any time a server maker comes into the global market and bypasses Cisco Systems, Lenovo, and IBM to become the third largest seller of machines in the world, you should pay attention. …
Compute
Deep Dive Into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP Architecture
No question about it. Intel had to get a lot of moving pieces all meshing well to deliver the “Ice Lake” Xeon SP server processors, which came out earlier this month and which have actually been shipping to a few dozen select customers since the end of 2020. …
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For CPU Makers and OEMs Alike, It’s A Platform View
Dell took a look at the two weeks between the rollouts by AMD and Intel of their latest server processors and, after some debate, decided to unveil its entire portfolio of new and enhanced systems – featuring the new chips from both vendors – at the launch of AMD’s latest Epyc silicon rather than announce servers in line with the chip makers’ timing. …
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Gelsinger Leads Emboldened Intel With Ice Lake Launch
The past several years haven’t been easy on Intel. The world’s top processor maker stumbled on its transition from 14 nanometer to 10 nanometer manufacturing and still finds itself behind rivals like AMD and Arm, which have made the move to 7 nanometer processes and which have line of sight on 5 nanometer. …
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Intel Fields A 10 Nanometer Server Chip That Competes
At long last, Intel is finally shipping a Xeon SP processor that is based on a 10 nanometer chip manufacturing process and it is finally able to do a better job competing on the technical and economic merits of its Xeon SP processors as architected rather than playing the total system card or the risk card or the discount card to keep its core datacenter compute engine business humming along. …
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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. …
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Taking A Superhybrid Approach To HPC/AI Convergence
AMD has been on such a run with its future server CPUs and server GPUs in the supercomputer market, taking down big deals for big machines coming later this year and out into 2023, that we might forget sometimes that there are many more deals to be done and that neither Intel nor Nvidia are inactive when it comes to trying to get their compute engines into upper echelon machines. …