Compute
It’s January: Datacenter Compute Rumors And Moves
As one year ends and another begins, this is often the time when people change jobs and companies change strategies. …
ARM
Compute
Google Covers Its Compute Engine Bases Because It Has To
The minute that search engine giant Google wanted to be a cloud, and the several years later that Google realized that companies were not ready to buy full-on platform services that masked the underlying hardware but wanted lower level infrastructure services that gave them more optionality as well as more responsibility, it was inevitable that Google Cloud would have to buy compute engines from Intel, AMD, and Nvidia for its server fleet. …
Compute
AWS Boosts Memory Capacity On Graviton 4 Compute
UPDATED With its Graviton 4 homegrown Graviton 4 Arm server processors, Amazon Web Services has put into the field a CPU that can compete with all but the toppest of bin parts from AMD for X86 CPUs and Ampere Computing and Nvidia for Arm CPUs, and it is driving price/performance that will in turn drive their adoption for Amazon’s various business units and for its IT infrastructure rental customers on AWS. …
HPC
TACC Fires Up “Vista” Bridge To Future “Horizon” Supercomputer
The Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Austin is the flagship datacenter for supercomputing for the US National Science Foundation, and so what TACC does – and doesn’t do – is a kind of bellwether for academic supercomputing. …
Compute
Ampere Arm Server CPUs To Get 512 Cores, AI Accelerator
With all of the hyperscalers and major cloud builders designing their own CPUs and AI accelerators, the heat is on those who sell compute engines to these companies. …
AI
Can SoftBank Be An AI Supercomputer Player? Will Arm Lend A Hand?
There have been rumors that either Arm Ltd or parent company and Japanese conglomerate SoftBank would buy British AI chip and system upstart – it is no longer a startup if it is eight years old – Graphcore for quite some time. …
Cloud
AWS Pushes Bang For The Buck With Graviton 4 Instances
UPDATED: Mea culpa. Due to an error in calculating the performance of the Graviton 4, we wrongly asserted that the price/performance of these chips was worse than, not better than, that of the Graviton 3. …
Compute
Ruminations About Europe’s “Alice Recoque” Exascale Supercomputer
Designing chips and shepherding them through the foundry and package and assembly is a complex and difficult process, and not having these skills at a national level has profound implications for the competitiveness of those nations. …
AI
Nvidia Unfolds GPU, Interconnect Roadmaps Out To 2027
There are many things that are unique about Nvidia at this point in the history of computing, networking, and graphics. …
AI
Power Efficiency, Customization Will Drive Arm’s Role In AI
More than a decade ago, executives at Arm Ltd saw the energy costs in datacenters soaring and sensed an opportunity to extend the low-power architecture of its eponymous systems-on-a-chip that has dominated the mobile phone markets from the get-go and took over the embedded device market from PowerPC into enterprise servers. …