The first exaflops-capable supercomputers are just around the corner and to celebrate this milestone-to-be and talk about its ramifications, the US Department of Energy hosted a national “Exascale Day” discussion. …
AMD has picked up yet another big supercomputer win with the selection of its second-generation Epyc processors, aka Rome, as the compute engine for the ARCHER2 system to be installed at the University of Edinburgh next year. …
There is little doubt that solid state disks have become a disruptive force for datacenter storage and have bright future. …
The vast swathes of unstructured data that now reside in the cloud has changed the nature of information technology in many ways. …
The European Exascale Processor Memory Node Design (ExaNoDe) project has wrapped up, delivering a prototype multi-chip-module (MCM) that integrates Arm cores, FPGAs, and 3D active interposer/chiplet technology. …
For more than a decade, the ease and elasticity of cloud storage has slowly been drawing enterprise users away from their beloved in-house datacenters. …
One of the temptations of IT companies that skate on the cutting edge is that they get enamored with their own inventions, forgetting that customers are a lot more interested in practical solutions than whiz-bang technology. …
Storage hierarchies just aren’t what they used to be.
In the good old days, you stored files on hard disk or magnetic tape. …
The storage landscape is being transformed thanks to the introduction of technologies like NVM-Express, and newer types of non-volatile memory (NVM). …
It has been eight years since Arm announced its intentions to enter the server arena. …
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