When To Use Containers Or Virtual Machines, And Why
Docker is the new kid on the virtualization and containerization block. …
Docker is the new kid on the virtualization and containerization block. …
Flash memory is cheap, but it isn’t fast, at least not by the standards of DRAM. …
Lining up the architectures of future supercomputers is interesting because it gives us a glimpse of what may be in the corporate datacenter many more years out. …
Before there were Internet-based search engines that anybody could use to look for anything, one of the toughest jobs in computing was helping people work through travel agencies to book flights, cars, and hotels when they travel. …
When it comes to systems, the first thing that most people think of is compute. …
We spend a lot of time in the upper stratospheres of computing among the hyperscale and HPC crowds here at The Next Platform, and the consistent theme across these two similar but often very different customers bases is that we need a new system architecture that provides better performance at a lower cost and in a lower thermal envelope and an expanded memory hierarchy that can help with those goals. …
The announcement this week by Intel and Micron Technology of 3D XPoint memory, which will sit somewhere between DRAM and NAND flash in future systems, has everyone thinking about the architectural, economic, and performance implications of emerging memory technologies in devices of all kinds – including those humming away in the datacenters of the world. …
It has been almost two months since Intel announced its blockbuster $16.7 billion deal to acquire FPGA maker Altera, which will allow the world’s largest chip maker to move from fixed function into programmable devices and potentially shake up the entire spectrum of computing, from handhelds all the way to datacenters. …
Not all upstarts are founded in the tech industry, and not all of them within the last decade, either. …
After many years of investment, Mellanox Technologies is reaping from the research and development that it has sown in the InfiniBand and Ethernet markets, pushing up bandwidth to 56 Gb/sec and now to 100 Gb/sec just as Intel’s “Haswell” Xeon E5 v3 processors – the dominant CPUs behind the machines cloud, hyperscale, and HPC datacenters – are ramping. …
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