Cloud
AWS Adds More Epyc Compute To EC2
For the first decade that Amazon Web Services was in operation, its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) raw compute was available in precisely one flavor: Intel Xeon. …
Xeon SP
Compute
A First Peek At Cascade Lake Xeons Ahead Of Launch
It is no secret that Intel has been working to get its “Cascade Lake” processors, the second generation of its Xeon SP family to market as early as possible this year and to ramp sales at the same time that X86 server rival AMD is expected to get its second generation “Rome” Epyc processors in the field. …
Compute
Battle For Datacenter Compute: Qualcomm Centriq Versus Intel Xeon
Putting more and more cores on a single CPU and then having two CPUs in a standard workhorse server is something that yields the best price/performance for certain kinds of compute-hungry workloads, and these days, particularly those who want top bin Xeon parts and the cost of the processor is no object because it saves on the total number of server nodes that has to be deployed. …
Compute
Cramming The Cosmos Into A Shared Memory Supercomputer
The very first Superdome Flex shared memory system has gone out the door at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and it is going to an HPC center that has big memory needs as it tries to understand the universe that we inhabit. …
Cloud
The Ecosystem Expands For AMD Epyc Servers
The “Naples” Epyc server processors do not exactly present a new architecture from a new processor maker, but given the difficulties that AMD had at the tail end of the Opteron line a decade ago and its long dormancy in the server space, it is almost like AMD had to start back at the beginning to gain the trust of potential server buyers. …
Compute
Intel Stacks Up Xeons Against AMD Epyc Systems
Apparently, it’s Rivalry Week in the compute section of the datacenter here at The Next Platform. …
Compute
HPE Aims HPC Servers, Storage At The Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has been busy this year in the HPC space. …
Cloud
New AWS Instances Sport Customized Intel Skylakes, KVM Hypervisor
The global server market is increasingly driven by the hyperscalers, and the trendsetter for all of them is Amazon Web Services. …
Compute
HPE’s Superdome Gets An SGI NUMAlink Makeover
When Hewlett Packard Enterprise bought supercomputer maker SGI back in August 2016 for $275 million, it had already invested years in creating its own “DragonHawk” chipset to build big memory Superdome X systems that were to be the follow-ons to its PA-RISC and Itanium Superdome systems. …
Compute
BSC Builds 21st Century HPC In A 19th Century Cathedral
This summer, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) added to its roster another of the world’s most powerful high performance computing systems. …