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Why The World Needs Another Network Operating System
If the world doesn’t need another thing, one of those things that it doesn’t need is probably another switch operating system. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Cloud
Rescaling to Meet the Needs of HPC Cloud
It has taken time and a lot of changes in the industry, but HPC in the cloud might actually be something that can work not just technically, but as a business model that is reasonable and sustainable. …
Compute
Intel Makes Money Hand Over Fist In The Datacenter
Despite the increasing competitive pressures that Intel is feeling in the datacenter and very serious issues that the company is having ramping up its 10 nanometer manufacturing processes, the datacenter business at Intel were booming in the second quarter, helping to drive a record second quarter and what is looking like will be a record full year for the chip maker. …
Compute
The End Of Xeon Phi – It’s Xeon And Maybe GPUs From Here
To a certain extent, the “Knights” family of parallel processors, sold under the brand name Xeon Phi, by Intel were exactly what they were supposed to be: A non-mainstream product that tried out a different architecture than its mainstream Xeon family of server processors and that was aimed at the high performance computing jet set that is, by definition, supposed to take risks on new architectures. …
Compute
Getting All Zen About AMD’s Datacenter Business
Imagine, if you will, that your two biggest rivals were Intel and Nvidia, and that you had to fight a two front war to storm the datacenter. …
Cloud
The Many Machine Learning Engines Of Google
If there is anything the hyperscalers have taught us, it is the value of homogeneity and scale in an enterprise. …
Cloud
Google Takes On Public Cloud Rivals With Private Kubernetes Service
As the underdog in cloud computing, Google has to take a slightly different tack from industry pioneer and juggernaut Amazon Web Services, which simply believes that all applications should, in the fullness of time, move to the public cloud. …
Cloud
Steady InfiniBand, Booming Ethernet Propel Mellanox Higher
Mellanox got its start as one of the several suppliers of ASICs for the low latency InfiniBand protocol that was originally conceived as a kind of universal fabric to connect all devices in the datacenter. …
Compute
Awaiting IBM’s Power Systems Growth Spurt
Given the rollout of the “ZZ” and “Boston” variants of its Power9 systems, which are aimed at customers who are building clusters and at midrange enterprises that use a Power System server as their main back-end system, you might be expecting for the Power Systems line at IBM to have had a big bump in the second quarter of this year. …
Cloud
AWS Chases HPC With Heftier Instances
It has been a year since Intel launched its “Skylake” Xeon SP processors, and even though the big cloud builders and hyperscalers had even earlier access to these chips, they are still only just now rolling out new hardware systems and related virtual machine instance types based on the Skylakes. …