Exascale HPC Needs An Application Innovation Spark
Every evolution in computing hardware brings with it big challenges for software developers. …
Every evolution in computing hardware brings with it big challenges for software developers. …
As has been demonstrated, it is relatively easy to launch tens of thousands of containers on a single host. …
The Spark in-memory processing framework that came out of the AMPLab at the University of California at Berkeley is hotter than hot. …
We can rent as much or as little compute capacity or storage or connectivity as we want, and we can get it when we want it. …
After a boisterous first couple of years when the concept was new, sales of so-called “engineered systems” or integrated platforms, as the box counters at IDC call them, were rising steadily alongside of the adjacent market for converged infrastructure. …
The “Tomahawk” switch chips from Broadcom, which are based on the new 25G Ethernet standard crafted by hyperscalers, are starting to appear in more and more devices. …
Sometimes the best way to cope with scale is to keep things simple and do everything you can to avoid it. …
If Google knows a lot about one thing, it is that developers do not want to spend a lot of time setting up infrastructure just so they can create applications that chew on lots of data to run the business. …
When Microsoft says that it is embracing Linux as a peer to Windows, it is not kidding. …
Big commercial and investment banks, hedge funds, stock peddlers, and other financial firms are in the business of making money from money, and when they do it right, they are successful because they know how to gather and process information in such a way that they manage risk. …
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