Enterprise
Making Remote NVM-Express Flash Look Local And Fast
Large enterprises are embracing NVM-Express flash as the storage technology of choice for their data intensive and often highly unpredictable workloads. …
Articles by Jeffrey Burt
Compute
AMD Researchers Eye APUs For Exascale
Exascale computing, which has been long talked about, is now – if everything remains on track – only a few years away. …
Cloud
Financial Institutions Weigh Risks, Benefits of Cloud Migration
Cloud computing in its various forms is often pitched as a panacea of sorts for organizations that are looking to increase the flexibility of their data and to drive down costs associated with their IT infrastructures. …
Compute
A Glimmer of Light Against Dark Silicon
Moore’s Law has been the driving force behind computer evolution for more than five decades, fueling the relentless innovation that led to more transistors being added to increasingly smaller processors that rapidly increased the performance of computing while at the same time driving down the cost. …
AI
Promises, Challenges Ahead for Near-Memory, In-Memory Processing
The idea of bringing compute and memory functions in computers closer together physically within the systems to accelerate the processing of data is not a new one. …
Control
Wrapping Kubernetes Around Applications Old And New
Kubernetes, the software container management system born out of Google, has seen its popularity in the datacenter soar in recent years as datacenter admins look to gain greater control of highly distributed computing environments and to take advantage of the advantages that virtualization, containers, and other technologies offer. …
Compute
Large-Scale Quantum Computing Prototype on Horizon
What supercomputers will look like in the future, post-Moore’s Law, is still a bit hazy. …
AI
Memristor Research Highlights Neuromorphic Device Future
Much of the talk around artificial intelligence these days focuses on software efforts – various algorithms and neural networks – and such hardware devices as custom ASICs for those neural networks and chips like GPUs and FPGAs that can help the development of reprogrammable systems. …
Compute
Juggling Applications On Intel Knights Landing Xeon Phi Chips
Intel’s many-core “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi processor is just a glimpse of what can be expected of supercomputers in the not-so-distant future of high performance computing. …
Compute
ARM Gains Stronger Foothold In China With AI And IoT
China represents a huge opportunity for chip designer ARM as it looks to extend its low-power system-on-a-chip (SoC) architecture beyond the mobile and embedded devices spaces and into new areas, such as the datacenter and emerging markets like autonomous vehicles, drones and the Internet of Things. …