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Trading Off Security And Performance Thanks To Spectre And Meltdown

September 17, 2018 Jeffrey Burt 1

The revelations by Google’s Project Zero team earlier this year of the Spectre and Meltdown speculative execution vulnerabilities in most of processors that have powered servers and PCs for the past couple of decades shook the industry as Intel and other chip makers scrambled to mitigate the risk of the threats in the short term and then implement plans to incorporate the mitigation techniques into future versions of the silicon. …

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System And Chip Architecture Shifts To A Heterogeneous World

August 29, 2018 Jeffrey Burt 2

Sometimes, if you stick around long enough in business, the market will come to you. …

Dell EMC Leans On VMware In The Cloud

August 28, 2018 Jeffrey Burt 0

It is intuitively obvious that most enterprises are want to embrace the public cloud, and they do not want to have a sole source of their cloudy compute, storage, and networking. …

Getting To The Root Of Security With Trusted Silicon

August 22, 2018 Jeffrey Burt 1

The increasingly distributed nature of computing and the rapid growth in the number of the small connected devices that make up the Internet of Things (IoT) are combining with trends like the rise of silicon-level vulnerabilities highlighted by Spectre, Meltdown, and more recent variants to create an expanding and fluid security landscape that’s difficult for enterprises to navigate. …

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NREL Set to Soar Higher With Eagle Supercomputer

August 17, 2018 Jeffrey Burt 0

Five years ago, Hewlett Packard Enterprise let loose the Peregrine supercomputer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, a marriage of performance and power efficiency that is based on HPE’s dense Apollo 8000 system and includes warm liquid cooling. …

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Negotiating The NVM-Express Land Rush

August 17, 2018 Jeffrey Burt 0

Newisys has been on the NVM-Express for several years, putting the high-profile interface in a growing number of server and storage platforms, including servers with NVM-Express directly attacked to the CPU, a system running NVM-Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) and a storage expansion flash array (JBOF, or Just a Bunch of Flash). …

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Intel Pries Open Servers To Squeeze In Persistent Memory

August 16, 2018 Jeffrey Burt 2

The massive amounts of data being generated in enterprise datacenters and out there on the public clouds and the need to quickly access and analyze that data is putting a strain on traditional storage and memory architectures that typically inhabit these environments. …

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Intel Looks Down The Server Chip Road To Ice Lake

August 9, 2018 Jeffrey Burt 0

Intel continues to pull in massive amounts of money through its portfolio of datacenter wares and to dominate the market for processors in the glass house. …

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TACC Tapped for NSF’s Next Supercomputer

August 2, 2018 Jeffrey Burt 1

The Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC) will house the latest leadership-class supercomputer funded by the National Science Foundation, a project that stands as a tribute to the NSF’s continued efforts to push supercomputing projects and the latest indication of the ground the organization is losing to the Department of Energy (DOE) in this effort. …

Bringing Machine Learning Within Reach Of Enterprises

July 27, 2018 Jeffrey Burt 0

Enterprises that want to leverage the huge amounts of data they are generating to gain useful insights and make faster and better business decisions are going to have to use machine learning at scale for modeling and training. …