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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 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 – …
Deep Dive Into Nvidia’s “Hopper” GPU Architecture - The Next …
WEBMar 31, 2022 · Deep Dive Into Nvidia’s “Hopper” GPU Architecture. March 31, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan. With each passing generation of GPU accelerator engines from Nvidia, machine learning drives more and more of the architectural choices and changes and traditional HPC simulation and modeling drives less and less. At least directly.
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 ...
Arm Is The New RISC/Unix, RISC-V Is The New Arm - The Next …
WEBSep 22, 2022 · Arm Is The New RISC/Unix, RISC-V Is The New Arm. When computer architectures change in the datacenter, the attack always comes from the bottom. And after more than a decade of sustained struggle, Arm Ltd and its platoons of licensees have finally stormed the glass house – well, more of a data warehouse (literally) than a cathedral with ...
Inside Facebook’s Future Rack And Microserver Iron - The Next …
WEBMay 14, 2020 · The Yosemite chassis is a big part of Facebook’s infrastructure, along with various generations of two-socket machines. We profiled how Facebook configures its servers for different workloads back in 2016, and the “Leopard” two-socket systems plus Yosemite represented the vast majority of its infrastructure, with the “Big Sur” GPU-enabled machines being relatively low volume but ...
Nvidia Adds Cluster Management To Its Enterprise Stack
WEBJan 10, 2022 · Nvidia will be adding Bright Cluster Manager to its Enterprise Products Group. The acquisition gives Bright Computing, which is a relatively small but well-known software company predominantly in the HPC simulation and modeling space, a much wider and deeper partner channel through which to sell Bright Cluster Manager.
Thought Experiment: How Did Zoom’s Infrastructure Keep Us …
WEBAug 2, 2021 · Zoom’s multi-stream technology handles bandwidth adjustments for the end user to improve their quality based upon their ability to receive data.”. Of course, Zoom servers need to get out onto “the internet” just like you do. Flexibility, reliability, and bandwidth seem to be touchpoints for them.
How High-Bandwidth Memory Will Break Performance Bottlenecks
WEBOct 21, 2021 · The real bandwidth of the Sapphire Rapids HBM memory system will be defined by the number of memory channels and performance of the HBM devices on each channel. Current HBM2 devices deliver between 256 GB/sec to 410 GB/sec, which gives us an idea of the performance potential of a modern HBM2 stacked memory channel.
AWS Goes Wide And Deep With Graviton3 Server Chip - The Next …
WEBDec 2, 2021 · The Graviton3 is the first to deliver PCI-Express 5.0 and DDR5, and the former can deliver high bandwidth with half as many lanes as its PCI-Express 4.0 predecessor while the latter can deliver 50 percent more memory bandwidth with the same capacity and in the same power envelope. When you are AWS, you can control your hardware stack and get ...