Comments on: The Road Ahead For Datacenter Compute Engines: The CPUs https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/30/the-road-ahead-for-datacenter-compute-engines-the-cpus/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Fri, 07 Feb 2025 17:56:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: G S Madhusudan https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/30/the-road-ahead-for-datacenter-compute-engines-the-cpus/#comment-247234 Sat, 01 Feb 2025 03:09:02 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145239#comment-247234 In reply to Timothy Prickett Morgan.

Core banking software in India used to run exclusively on Power big iron! Oracle licensing costs. All other workloads would run on an x86 box, except the central database.But that is not the only reason, RAS features on Power is class leading.Very oddly IBM does not push DB2 much.

]]> By: Slim Albert https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/30/the-road-ahead-for-datacenter-compute-engines-the-cpus/#comment-247173 Fri, 31 Jan 2025 14:26:33 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145239#comment-247173 Great overview of the field! And among upcoming dragons about which little is known, one may also consider Apple’s and Qualcomm’s efforts towards developing datacenter chips, that I guess would be ARM based as well ( https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/12/apple_ai_chip_broadcom/ , https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/14/intel_xeon_lead_qualcommm_move/ ).

The trend towards CPUs with many, many cores, 288 or 384 at Intel and AMD, 512 at Ampere, does make one wonder (as with last Friday’s McCredie interview on TNP) whether some advanced and highly flexible NoC, along with malleable off-chip networking, could be used to run those processor arrays efficiently in dataflow “mode” at some point in the future, for those workloads that might so-benefit, especially if each core is attached to beefy vector units. That might be a good match to Ampere’s Wittich and Intel’s prespectives on AI inferencing done on CPUs for example (expressed in previous TNP articles) imho.

]]> By: Mauro https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/30/the-road-ahead-for-datacenter-compute-engines-the-cpus/#comment-247075 Thu, 30 Jan 2025 19:53:33 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145239#comment-247075 Great content and analysis.
Thank you, really.
Greetings from Italy.

]]> By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/30/the-road-ahead-for-datacenter-compute-engines-the-cpus/#comment-247071 Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:18:51 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145239#comment-247071 In reply to John S.

For any per-core charged software, you need the strongest core you can get and the fewest number to lift the load. Hence, Power iron still exists.

]]> By: John S https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/30/the-road-ahead-for-datacenter-compute-engines-the-cpus/#comment-247061 Thu, 30 Jan 2025 15:06:22 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145239#comment-247061 So what about the Oracle tax for all these large core count systems? This was a big issue for us a couple of years ago, we explicitly bought four core systems to run ESXi and Oracle DBs on them just to keep down licensing costs. This is a fun roadmap, but it’s totally focused on the max-cores-at-all-cost end of the CPU families.

]]> By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/30/the-road-ahead-for-datacenter-compute-engines-the-cpus/#comment-247046 Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:03:36 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145239#comment-247046 In reply to Thomas Hoberg.

Well, thank you.

]]> By: Thomas Hoberg https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/30/the-road-ahead-for-datacenter-compute-engines-the-cpus/#comment-247037 Thu, 30 Jan 2025 12:43:53 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145239#comment-247037 Nobody does these really useful things like you!

Really appreciate it!

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