Supercomputer maker SGI has been going it alone in the upper echelons of the computing arena for decades and has brought much innovation to bear on some of the most intractable simulation, modeling, and analytics problems in the world. …
It is going to take a lot of different things to build an exascale system. …
Making the transition from disk storage to flash and other non-volatile media is perhaps more difficult for the makers of storage than it is for customers. …
Stacking up electronics equipment in precise form factors that slide into standard racks is not a new idea, and in fact it is one that predates the modern era of computing. …
Bad things sometimes happen to good companies, but the great ones are resilient; they ride out the difficulties and keep forging ahead. …
The two-socket Xeon server has been the default workhorse machine in the datacenter for so long and to such a great extent that using anything else almost looks aberrant. …
Cannibalize your own products or someone else will do it for you, as the old adage goes. …
The battle between the Mesos and Kubernetes tools for managing applications on modern clusters continues to heat up, with the former reaching its milestone 1.0 with a “universal containerizer” feature that supports native Docker container formats and a shiny new API stack that is a lot more friendly and flexible than the manner in which APIs are implemented in systems management software these days. …
Because Google is such a wildly successful company and a true innovator when it comes to IT platforms, and because we know more about its infrastructure at a theoretical level than what has been built by other hyperscalers and cloud providers, it is natural enough to think that the future of computing for the rest of us will look like what Google has already created for itself. …
Just because Intel doesn’t make a lot of noise about a product does not mean that it is not important for the company. …
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