Enterprise CPUs
Although COVID isn't over quite yet, things are close enough for this year's Computex event. Kicking things off once again is AMD, who is broadcasting a keynote address headed up by the one and only Dr. Lisa Su. According to AMD, the PC-focused keynote will cover both mobile and desktop, with AMD and its partners focusing on cutting edge hardware and "breakthrough performance." AMD's Computex keynotes rarely disappoint, and we don't expect this one too, either. So be sure to join us at 2am Eastern (06:00 UTC) to catch a glimpse of what AMD has planned for the rest of 2022 and beyond.
Huawei Server Efforts: Hi1620 and Arm’s Big Server Core, Ares
For at least four years now, Arm has been pushing its efforts to be a big part of the modern day server, the modern day data center, and in...
12 by Ian Cutress on 11/20/2018Managing 8 Rome CPUs in 1U: Cray’s Shasta Direct Liquid Cooling
The Supercomputing show was a hive of activity, with lots of whispers surrounding the next generation of x86 CPUs, such as AMD’s Rome platform and Intel’s Cascade Lake platform...
26 by Ian Cutress on 11/19/2018Intel Partner Discloses Cascade Lake Xeon Scalable Launch Window
This week at Supercomputing, everyone is getting excited about next generation hardware, not only on x86 but also GPUs, POWER, Arm, FPGAs, and accelerators. The danger of having so...
17 by Ian Cutress on 11/16/2018AMD 64-Core Rome Deployment: HLRS ‘Hawk’ at 2.35 GHz
Last week AMD pre-announced its next-generation EPYC processors, code-named Rome. These new processors are set to be officially announced next year, but will feature up to 64 cores using...
30 by Ian Cutress on 11/13/2018Just When You Thought It Was Dead: Qualcomm Centriq Arm Server Systems Spotted
Much to our surprise, we saw a Qualcomm Centriq server from an OEM at Supercomputing this week.
7 by Ian Cutress on 11/13/2018TACC Frontera: Targeting 210W Next-Gen Xeons and Extreme Performance
The Frontera supercomputer is the next generation high performance machine set to debut at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). As part of Intel’s HPC Forum, being held just...
9 by Ian Cutress on 11/12/2018Intel Offers More Cascade Lake-AP Performance Numbers
One of the announcements from last week involved Intel and its new Cascade Lake Advanced Performance category of processors to launch next year. These new processors will be based...
52 by Ian Cutress on 11/11/2018AMD Next Horizon Live Blog: Starts 9am PT / 5pm UTC
AMD's 2019 is set to be full of 7nm products, and on the back of AMD's New Horizon event on 2016, today it is hosting part two: Next Horizon...
104 by Ian Cutress on 11/6/2018Intel Xeon E Six-Core Review: E-2186G, E-2176G, E-2146G, and E-2136 Tested
Despite having officially launched back in July, Intel’s Xeon E desktop platform has yet to see the light of day in systems casually available to users or small businesses...
51 by Ian Cutress on 11/5/2018Intel Goes For 48-Cores: Cascade-AP with Multi-Chip Package Coming Soon
Ahead of the annual Supercomputing 2018 conference next week, Intel is today announcing part of its upcoming Cascade Lake strategy. Following on from its server-focused Xeon Scalable Skylake family...
91 by Ian Cutress on 11/5/2018896 Xeon Cores in One PC: Microsoft’s New x86 DataCenter Class Machines Running Windows
This week Microsoft released a new blog dedicated to the Windows Kernel internals. The purpose of the blog is to dive into the Kernel across a variety of architectures...
57 by Ian Cutress on 10/26/2018Oracle puts AMD EPYC in the Cloud
The process of AMD ramping up its EPYC efforts involves a lot of ‘first-step’ vendor interaction. Having been a very minor player for so long, all the big guns...
27 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/23/2018Hot Chips 2018: Fujitsu's A64FX Arm Core Live Blog
Remember back when Arm announced Scalable Vector Extensions? Well Fujitsu has made an Arm CPU that uses it with a 512-bit width. The presentation looks super interesting, so follow...
9 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/21/2018Hot Chips 2018: IBM Power9 Scale Up CPU Live Blog
The biggest part of the show are the server talks in the last session of the last day. All four talks are worth covering, and the first talk is...
1 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/21/2018Hot Chips 2018: Tachyum Prodigy CPU Live Blog
One of the more interesting talks is from Tachyum, who have a deep presentation about their new hyperscale Prodigy processors with up to 64 cores and eight channel memory...
15 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/21/2018An Interview with Lisa Spelman, VP of Intel’s DCG: Discussing Cooper Lake and Smeltdown
As part of Intel's Datacenter summit, we were given an opportunity to sit down with Lisa Spelman, VP of Intel’s Data Center Group and General Manager of Xeon Products...
41 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/15/2018Intel Datacenter Summit 2018 Live Blog
We're live here at Intel HQ in Santa Clara for the company's 2018 Datacenter Summit. The most lucrative part of Intel's business, the company is looking to pivot entirely...
19 by Ian Cutress on 8/8/2018Intel to Hold Datacenter Conference Next Week
Through financial channels, Intel this week announced that it would hold a datacenter-related event for financial analysts, technology, analysts and the tech press next week in Santa Clara. There...
29 by Anton Shilov on 8/3/2018Intel 10nm Production Update: Systems on Shelves For Holiday 2019
Earlier this year Intel confirmed that it would delay mass production of 10nm CPUs to 2019 due to issues with yields, but did not elaborate on when in 2019...
50 by Anton Shilov on 7/26/2018Intel’s Xeon Scalable Roadmap Leaks: Cooper Lake-SP, Ice Lake-SP Due in 2020
Recently a Chinese university has published a collection of slide-decks from various companies covering a server/HPC event. Among the slides, Intel had a seemingly longer comprehensive presentation describing Intel’s...
19 by Anton Shilov on 7/25/2018