Compute
AMD Firing On All Compute Engine Cylinders
A few years ago, it was hard to imagine how AMD would have survived without re-entering the datacenter with its CPU and GPU compute engines. …
Epyc
Compute
Ampere Readies 256-Core CPU Beast, Awaits The AI Inference Wave
How many cores is enough for server CPUs? All that we can get, and then some. …
HPC
Energy Giant Eni Boosts Its HPC Oomph By An Order Of Magnitude
The big oil and gas companies of the world were among the earliest and most enthusiastic users of advanced machinery to do HPC simulation and modeling. …
AI
AMD’s Instinct GPU Business Is Coiled To Spring
Timing is a funny thing. The summer of 2006 when AMD bought GPU maker ATI Technologies for $5.6 billion and took on both Intel in CPUs and Nvidia in GPUs was the same summer when researchers first started figuring out how to offload single-precision floating point math operations from CPUs to Nvidia GPUs to try to accelerate HPC simulation and modeling workloads. …
Compute
Debunking Datacenter Compute Myths, Part Two
Welcome to the second part of our Debunking Datacenter Compute Myths series. …
Compute
Debunking Datacenter Compute Myths, Part One
There has always been a certain amount of fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IT vendors sow as they try to protect their positions in markets that they participate in. …
Compute
AMD Finishes Out The Zen 4 Server CPUs With Edgy “Siena”
Different workloads need different mixes of price, performance, thermals, and longevity in the field out there on the edge and in the datacenter, and that is why server CPU makers for years have had a mix of processors that deliver on these vectors that are different from each other. …
Compute
AMD Widens Server CPU Line To Take Bites Out Of Intel, Arm
The best defense is a good offense, and as it turns out, the best offense is also a good offense. …
Compute
Datacenter And Xilinx Power Through In Q4 And Beyond For AMD
Imagine, if you will, how troublesome AMD’s chip business would be at the end of 2022 had it not decided way back in 2015 to re-enter the datacenter with its Epyc processors. …
Compute
Intel’s Datacenter Business Goes From Bad To Worse, With Worst Still To Come
Everybody expected that Intel was going to turn in a pretty bad final quarter in 2022, and even before it posted its numbers yesterday after the market closed, there were plenty of signals that it was going to be worse. …