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Spanning The Database World With Google

January 15, 2019 0

If relational databases had just worked at scale to begin with, the IT sector would be a whole lot more boring and we wouldn’t be […]

GPU Applications Get The Container Treatment

January 15, 2019 0

Containerized high performance computing is fast becoming one of the more popular ways of running HPC workloads. And perhaps nowhere is this more apparent than […]

The Winding Road to Quantum Computing ROI, Competition

January 14, 2019 1

With a timeline to early production sometime in the next decade (if not longer), the business model for quantum computing has been nebulous from the […]

The Slow But Inevitable Shift To Cloudy Infrastructure

January 14, 2019 0

Architectural transitions for layers in the IT stack at hyperscalers can happen in a matter of years, and cloud builders and HPC centers can move […]

Supermicro, Intel Tackle Next Wave of Cloud Demand

January 14, 2019 0

The cloud has been helping lower the cost and improve the quality of technology infrastructures and business practices for more than a decade, but implementation […]

Germany Makes Massive Quantum, Neuromorphic Investment

January 16, 2019 0

One of Germany’s foremost scientific research centers, Jülich Forschungszentrum, will receive a €36-million infusion of government funding to advance quantum and neuromorphic computing technologies. Germany’s […]

Reducing Managed Memcache Cost with NVM

January 15, 2019 0

Memcache has become the ubiquitous way of loading objects quickly for most of the world’s largest websites and for that matter, for plenty of smaller […]

CPU Wars and Exascale Clarity: HPC in 2019

January 11, 2019 0

The year ahead for high performance computing promises some interesting twists and turns. But we think two of the more defining developments for 2019, at […]

Re-Architecting Parallel File Systems in the Post-Disk Era

January 10, 2019 2

We spent some time at the end of 2018 getting a handle on how parallel file systems in HPC need to evolve to meet the […]

Startup Sees Potential for Long-Distance RDMA on Horizon

January 10, 2019 0

Sharing data via remote direct memory access (RDMA) has typically been a local affair, restricted to a single server or tightly bound clusters of servers. […]

Containers Killed The Virtual Machine Star

January 9, 2019 3

We predict new enterprise application development will pass a tipping point in 2019 and shift away from legacy virtual machines (VMs) and strongly toward containers […]

Two Thirds of The Way Home With Exascale Programming

January 9, 2019 0

To effectively make use of the level of concurrency in forthcoming exascale systems – hundreds of thousands of compute elements with millions of threads – […]

Intel’s Quantum Efforts Tied to Next-Gen Materials Applications

January 9, 2019 0

A few months ago, we took an in-depth look at Intel’s quantum hardware strategy—from qubits to device manufacturability and commercial viability. But without a firm […]

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Huawei Jumps Into The Arm Server Chip Fray

January 8, 2019 0

Arm chip designers who make processors for mobile devices, such as Apple, Samsung, and Qualcomm, that do not have pre-existing server businesses have been skittish […]