When system architects sit down to design their next platforms, they start by looking at a bunch of roadmaps from suppliers of CPUs, accelerators, memory, flash, network interface cards – and PCI-Express controllers and switches. …
System architects are often impatient about the future, especially when they can see something good coming down the pike. …
Dynamic allocation of resources inside of a system, within a cluster, and across clusters is a bin-packing nightmare for hyperscalers and cloud builders. …
What is the most expensive component that hyperscalers and cloud builders put into their X86 servers? …
To hardware or not to hardware, that is a real question for vendors peddling all kinds of software in the datacenter. …
Flexibility is a kind of strength. It is just more subtle than brute force. …
The compute engines keep changing as the decades pass, but the same old problems keep cropping up in slightly different form. …
Maximizing the aggregate amount of compute that can be brought to bear for any given pile of money is what traditional high performance computing is all about. …
Datacenters have evolved from physical servers, to virtualized systems, and now to composable infrastructure where resources such as storage and persistent memory are disaggregated from the server. …
While the long overdue upgrade to PCI-Express 4.0 is finally coming to servers, allowing for high bandwidth links between processors and peripherals. …
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