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It's not just supercomputing. There's a push for networking chips (ones with built-in multi-gigabit NICs): Mellanox Bluefield, NXP Layerscape [the one that's i
by floatboth 7y ago
It's not just supercomputing.
There's a push for networking chips (ones with built-in multi-gigabit NICs): Mellanox Bluefield, NXP Layerscape [the one that's in the new SolidRun workstation!]..
And for regular old server chips (or "cloud" in marketing speak): Ampere eMAG, Amazon Graviton..
- gumby 7y agonetworking chips typically won't have the kind of workload I was talking about so are a natural for an ARM or MIPS (or someday I hope RISC-V) device. x86 is just too expensive and Intel long abandoned (for economic reasons) the lifetime guarantees needed for such devices. There are some server experiments but they are a long way from mainstream. You'd think they might be fine for microservices but if you're AWS it's better to share a lot of VMs because the CPU cost doesn't dominate. Someday I hope.
- floatboth 7y agoAWS is putting a lot of VMs on their 16-core Cortex-A72 chips :)