Compute
A Flare For SmartNICs
As the hyperscalers and cloud builders go, so goes the enterprise. …
Xilinx
Compute
How Far Can You Push Integration With FPGAs?
If you squint your eyes, a modern FPGA looks like a programmable logic device was crossbred with the mutt of a switch ASIC and an SoC. …
Connect
The Killer Apps For FPGAs Could Be SmartNICs And Storage
If FPGAs are going to take off in the datacenter in their own right, they are going to need their own killer apps. …
Compute
Could FPGAs Outweigh CPUs In Compute Share?
Over a decade ago we would not have expected accelerators to have be commonplace in the datacenter. …
Compute
AMD Takes A Bigger Bite Out Of The Datacenter
It is hard to take on either Intel or Nvidia in their respectively dominant CPU and GPU markets, and credit is due to AMD for taking on both companies at the same time to try to carve itself a larger slice of the datacenter pie. …
HPC
HPC In 2020: Acquisitions And Mergers As The New Normal
After a decade of vendor consolidation that saw some of the world’s biggest IT firms acquire first-class HPC providers such as SGI, Cray, and Sun Microsystems, as well as smaller players like Penguin Computing, WhamCloud, Appro, and Isilon, it is natural to wonder who is next. …
Compute
The Inevitability Of FPGAs In The Datacenter
You don’t have to be a chip designer to program an FPGA, just like you don’t have to be a C++ programmer to code in Java, but it probably helps in both cases if you want to do them well. …
Connect
Hypercalers Lead The Way To The Future With SmartNICs
The consensus is growing among the big datacenter operators of the world that CPU cores are such a precious commodity that they should never do network, storage, or hypervisor housekeeping work but rather focus on the core computation that they are really acquired to do. …
Compute
Xilinx Keeps A Low Profile With Mainstream FPGA Accelerator
Accelerators of many kinds, but particularly those with GPUs and FPGAs, can be pretty hefty compute engines that meet or exceed the power, thermal, and spatial envelopes of modern processors. …
AI
Teasing Out The Bang For The Buck Of Inference Engines
There is a battle heating up in the datacenter, and there are tens of billions of dollars at stake as chip makers chase the burgeoning market for engines that do machine learning inference. …