Not all cloud providers are the same, and even among the three cloud giants – Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud – there is some measure of differentiation. …
High performance systems have a long history of using water cooling, but advancements in semiconductor technology in the 1980s allowed for big iron to have a few decades of using air cooling. …
Virtualization has been an engine of efficiency in the IT industry over the past two decades, decoupling workloads from the underlying hardware and thus allowing multiple workloads to be consolidated into a single physical system as well as moved around relatively easily with live migration of virtual machines. …
The Slurm Workload Manager that has its origins at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as the Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management – and which is used on about two-thirds of the most powerful HPC systems in the world – is looking for new jobs to take on across hybrid cloud infrastructure and machine learning systems running at scale. …
Voltron Data officially launched last month with a mission to make Apache Arrow easier to use for big data analytics projects, and in particular to focus on improving interoperability with other systems. …
Object storage has been drawing an increasing level of interest from organizations over the past several years as a convenient way to store and manage the growing quantities of data they are accumulating, especially when that may be a mix of structured and unstructured data and a lot of machine-generated telemetry. …
While there is a lot of hype, there is no question that quantum computers are going to revolutionize computing. …
Intel is looking to position itself as a leader in AI and HPC through a holistic approach that plays to the company’s strengths across a broad swath of the IT ecosystem. …
Arm-based servers have had a somewhat checkered history that has seen many abortive attempts to challenge the X86 processor hegemony, but the firm appears bullish about its chances in the high performance computing (HPC) sector, where it believes its licensing model and the energy efficiency of its architecture give it an edge. …
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