Except for some edge cases where extreme low-latency or high bandwidth is absolutely required, the Ethernet protocol absolutely rules networking in the datacenter, around the campus, and in our homes. …
Tailoring systems for specific jobs is one of the foundational themes of The Next Platform, so we like to keep an eye on the segments of the systems market that have a particular platform bend to them. …
For the past two decades, Intel has taken on the processor makers for servers and storage in the datacenter and vanquished all but a few suppliers of alternative architectures from the glass house. …
Elon Musk is shaking up both the car and space industries with his respective Tesla and SpaceX companies, and the irony is that while the former is totally upending the combustion engine for land transportation with zippy and stylish electric cars, the latter company has to not only embrace but to create new combustion technologies to get a manned mission to Mars as Musk not only dreams of doing, but is making happen. …
Intel’s forthcoming “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi processor is certainly an impressive beast, as The Next Platform revealed earlier this week. …
As readers of The Next Platform already know, the future “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi massively parallel processor was sighted at the Open Compute Summit a few weeks back, with an Intel motherboard called “Adams Pass” being dropped into an Open Compute sled and shown off by partner Penguin Computing as well as by Intel itself. …
With the growing adoption of custom servers tailored to specific workloads, a wide variety of Xeon processors available from Intel, and the quickening commercial ramp of machinery that is compliant with Open Compute designs, you might think the last thing that Rackspace Hosting, one of the largest cloud providers in the world, would do is strike out on its own and create a new line of servers that will be based on IBM’s Power processors. …
It has been about a year since the OpenPower Foundation was formed to provide a development locus for systems based on the Power8 processor and its varied I/O technologies. …
One size does not fit all when it comes to merchant silicon chips that are used to build network devices for enterprise, hyperscale, and service provider customers. …
Search engine giant Google only talks about the underlying technology that it deploys in its datacenters years after they have been commercialized and a replacement has been developed and put into use. …
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