NVM-Express has been creating a quiet revolution in servers for several years now, providing a way for flash storage to bypass the traditional storage stack and the limitations of interfaces such as SATA and SAS, and instead pipe data directly into and out of the CPU through the high-speed PCI Express bus. …
When IBM’s Summit supercomputer was officially unveiled in June, some hailed it as the first exascale system because of its peak performance in applications that made heavy use of GPU acceleration at low precision. …
Over the past two decades, VMware has built an enviable enterprise customer base of half a million unique customers for its technology to virtualize X86 servers. …
In the wonderful world of software containers, it can feel like the ground is constantly shifting beneath your feet as new projects spring up to address problems that you thought had been solved long ago. …
General purpose computing systems have been seen as the best way of delivering on enterprise data processing needs for decades. …
Containers have been getting a lot of attention in the enterprise over the past several years, thanks to them being an enabling technology for greater operational agility, especially in developing customer-facing applications and getting the code into production with greater speed. …
Lustre has been an essential component of HPC systems for a decade and a half, and has experienced a somewhat turbulent history of shifting ownership followed by uncertain support from various backers as an open source project. …
Edge computing can mean different things to different people, as is the case with any new phenomena in the IT sector. …
Linux has gradually grown in importance along with the Internet and now the hyperscalers that define the next generation of experience on that global network. …
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