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Multicore Pioneer Tracks Architectural Path to Exascale

February 23, 2016 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 3

With over thirty years and more than thirty patents under his belt, Dr. …

Compute

Will AMD’s Seattle Push ARM Servers Into The Mainstream?

January 14, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 7

With the launch today by AMD of the “Seattle” Opteron A1100, that makes three 64-bit ARM processors that are finally in production for servers, storage, and switches in the datacenter. …

Code

AMD Lays Software Foundation For Renewed Hybrid Push

November 25, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

Having the best compute engine – meaning the highest performance at a sustainable price/performance – is not enough to guarantee that it will be adopted in HPC, hyperscale, or enterprise settings. …

ARM Servers: What Can AMD Do, And How Fast?

November 2, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

As we pointed out in the analysis opening up this series on the future prospects for ARM-based servers, it has been quite a challenge getting all of the hardware, software, and money lined up to storm the datacenter. …

What Will Become of the World’s First Open Source GPU?

August 27, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 4

Open source hardware and microprocessor projects are certainly nothing new, and while there has been great momentum on the CPU front, there have not been efforts to release an open source GPU into the wild. …

Future Systems: Can Exascale Revive AMD?

July 30, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

We spend a lot of time in the upper stratospheres of computing among the hyperscale and HPC crowds here at The Next Platform, and the consistent theme across these two similar but often very different customers bases is that we need a new system architecture that provides better performance at a lower cost and in a lower thermal envelope and an expanded memory hierarchy that can help with those goals. …