Compute
Amping Up The Arm Server Roadmap
Competition in and of itself does not directly drive innovation – customer needs that might be met by some other product is really what makes suppliers hop to and get the lead out. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Connect
Broadcom Launches Another Tomahawk Into The Datacenter
If hyperscalers, cloud builders, HPC centers, enterprises, and both OEMs and ODMs like one thing, it is a steady drumbeat of technology enhancements to drive their datacenters forward. …
HPC
Operating A Campus-Wide HPC Center Like An Enterprise
For those involved with large-scale system planning, design, and procurement for campus-wide supercomputers, the target is balance. …
Edge
Everybody Has Big Data – How To Cope With It
Enterprises are awash in data, and though many are tempted to save it all for later analysis – after all it worked for Google for many years – the store then analyze approach is poorly suited to environments with data sources that never stop. …
Compute
Looking Ahead To Marvell’s Future ThunderX Processors
If you are going to take on Intel in server processors, you have to play the same kind of long game that Intel itself played as it jumped from the desktop to the datacenter. …
Compute
Datacenters Are Hungry For Servers Again
Server consumption is a pretty good proxy for how enterprises of all shapes and sizes feel about their particular business. …
HPC
Time Is Always Money, Especially With HPC On The Cloud
Systems management has always been in a race to catch up with the innovation in systems, and it is always nipping at the heels. …
Cloud
Finally: AWS Gives Servers A Real Shot In The Arm
Finally, we get to test out how well or poorly a well-designed Arm server chip will do in the datacenter. …
Control
Taking The PCI Express To Malleable Systems
It took decades for server virtualization to go mainstream, making their way from hardware and software partitions on mainframes three decades ago down to proprietary and Unix systems two decades ago to X86 servers with VMware, XenServer, Microsoft, and Red Hat all doing their part. …
HPC
Bending The Supercomputing Cost Curve Down
One of the recurring themes at the recent HPC Day event that we hosted ahead of the SC19 supercomputing conference in Denver was that capability class supercomputers are getting more and more expensive. …