Cloud
Hyperscalers, Enterprises Pull Back On Server Spending
The server cycle has some long waves that are not always in phase with each other, and that is generally a good thing. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Compute
Big Iron Xeons Get A Broadwell Compute And Memory Boost
Intel is coming to the finish line with its 14 nanometer chip making process with the launch of the “Broadwell” generation of Xeon E7 server processors in China today. …
Compute
Next-Generation ThunderX2 ARM Targets Skylake Xeons
Networking chip maker Cavium is one of the ARM server chip upstarts that is taking on Intel’s hegemony in the datacenter, and is probably getting the most traction among its ARM peers in the past year with its ThunderX multicore processors. …
Compute
eBay Taps Dell Triton Systems To Overclock Search Engines
While online auctioneer eBay does not run the largest search engine in the world, search is a very key component of its service, which has over 162 million active buyers and 900 million product listings. …
Compute
Intel Lines Up ThunderX ARM Against Xeons
The datacenter is a battleground with many fronts these days, with intense competition between compute, memory, storage, and networking components. …
Compute
HPE Hunkers Down On Datacenter Hardware
Any aspirations that the Hewlett-Packard that we knew for nearly a decade and a half to build a conglomerate that resembled IBM in its own former enterprise breadth and depth of software, services, and systems is now over with the company spinning out its Enterprise Services business and focusing very tightly on its core hardware and related software businesses. …
Compute
Driving Compute And Storage Scale Independently
While legacy monolithic applications will linger in virtual machines for an incredibly long time in the datacenter, new scale-out applications run best on new architectures. …
Control
Samsung Experts Put Kubernetes Through The Paces
No one expects that setting up management tools for complex distributed computing frameworks to be an easy thing, but there is always room for improvement–and always a chance to take out unnecessary steps and improve the automated deployment of such tools. …
Connect
Chip Upstarts Get Coherent With Hybrid Compute
Accelerators and coprocessors are proliferating in the datacenter, and it has been a boon for speeding up certain kinds of workloads and, in many cases, making machine learning or simulation jobs possible at scale for the first time. …
Compute
In-Memory Breathes New Life Into NUMA
Hyperscalers and the academics that often do work with them have invented a slew of distributed computing methods and frameworks to get around the problem of scaling up shared memory systems based on symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) or non-uniform memory access (NUMA) techniques that have been in the systems market for decades. …