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WEBOracle Puts AI, Automation Between Its Cloud And the Bad Guys. Despite a slow start several years ago, Oracle has refashioned itself into a cloud builder, rapidly expanding its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to make it among the top second-tier providers, although still well behind the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
Inside Tesla’s Innovative And Homegrown “Dojo” AI Supercomputer
WEBAug 31, 2022 · That, in a nutshell, is what Tesla’s Project Dojo chip, interconnect, and supercomputer effort is all about. At the Hot Chips 34 conference, the chip, system, and software engineers who worked on the Dojo supercomputer unveiled many of the architectural features of the machine for the first time, and promised to talk about the performance of the Dojo system at the Tesla AI Day 2 event on ...
Like A Drumbeat, Broadcom Doubles Ethernet Bandwidth With …
WEBAug 16, 2022 · This single chip Tomahawk 5 can drive 51.2 Tb/sec of aggregate bandwidth, double that of the Tomahawk 4 that was unveiled two years ago – right on the two year cadence that Broadcom likes to keep its switch ASICs moving on. With the Tomahawk 4, Broadcom had one version that had 512 SerDes running at 50 Gb/sec using PAM-4 modulation to drive a ...
The Founder Of CentOS Is Building The Next Platform
WEBFeb 18, 2021 · Greg Kurtzer, one of the co-founders of the CentOS Linux distribution, the creator of the Singularity container environment for HPC workloads, the founder of the new Rocky Linux distribution that seeks to replace the now defunct CentOS, and an HPC guru in his own right, is on a mission. And it is a mission that we admire and see all the time: To build an integrated application platform that ...
Inside Amazon’s Graviton3 Arm Server Processor - The Next Platform
WEBJan 4, 2022 · Inside Amazon’s Graviton3 Arm Server Processor. January 4, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan Compute 16. The Graviton family of Arm server chips designed by the Annapurna Labs division of Amazon Web Services is arguably the highest volume Arm server chips the datacenter market today, and they have precisely one – …
AMD Deepens Its Already Broad Epyc Server Chip Roadmap
WEBNov 10, 2021 · Ahead of the keynote by Lisa Su, AMD’s president and chief executive officer, Mark Papermaster, the company’s chief technology officer, and Forrest Norrod, general manager of AMD’s Datacenter and Embedded Solutions Group, walked through the deepening roadmap for the Epyc server chips. This …
The Ampere Arm Server Chip Roadmap May Lead Beyond …
WEBMay 24, 2021 · The Ampere Arm Server Chip Roadmap May Lead Beyond Hyperscalers. Any tech startup that wants to live beyond is seed and venture funding rounds and make it to either an initial public offering or an acquisition by a company threatened by their very existence has to do two things. One, have a laser focus on …
AMD, Cray, Nvidia Behind Massive NCAR Supercomputer Upgrade
WEBJan 27, 2021 · The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is getting a significant upgrade to its all-CPU “Cheyenne” supercomputer, bringing it from 5.2 peak petaflops of performance to 19.87 petaflops with a combination of AMD CPUs and Nvidia A100 GPUs laid out in a Cray XE (formerly called …
Rackspace Goes All In – Again – On OpenStack - The Next Platform
WEBAug 22, 2024 · Rackspace’s Carter says he remains bullish about OpenStack, adding that the company is “very confident in its ability to serve our workloads” and that the technology’s mission has changed with the times. “A long time ago it wanted to be the end-all and be-all and now it’s more of an integrated platform into a lot of different ...
This Is What The Most Powerful Server In The World Looks Like
WEBSep 8, 2021 · Here is what matters. The Power p5 595 with 64 Power5 cores in 32 sockets running at 1.9 GHz had a rating of 306.21 on IBM’s Relative Performance (rPerf) online transaction performance benchmark test. The 240-core, 16-socket Power E1080 has an rPerf rating of 7,998.6.