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. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
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. …
Enterprise
IBM Throws Weight Behind Phase Change Memory
There is no question that the memory hierarchy in systems is being busted wide open and that new persistent memory technology that can be byte addressable like DRAM or block addressable like storage are going to radically change the architecture of machines and the software that runs on them. …
Enterprise
Scaling All Flash Arrays Up And Out
The ubiquity of the Xeon server has been a boon for datacenters and makers of IT products alike, creating an ever more powerful on which to build compute, storage, and now networking or a mix of the three all in the same box. …
Compute
Tesla Pushes Nvidia Deeper Into The Datacenter
If you are trying to figure out what impact the new “Pascal” family of GPUs is going to have on the business at Nvidia, just take a gander at the recent financial results for the datacenter division of the company. …
Compute
Shared Memory Pushes Wheat Genomics To Boost Crop Yields
Wheat has been an important part of the human diet for the past 9,000 years or so, and depending on the geography can comprise up to 40 percent to 50 percent of the diet within certain regions today. …
AI
Facebook Flow Is An AI Factory Of The Future
We have been convinced for many years that machine learning, the kind of artificial intelligence that actually works in practice, not in theory, would be a key element of the next platform. …
Cloud
Google And Friends Add Prometheus To Kubernetes Platform
There are a lot of moving parts in a modern platform, and in this regard, they are no different from the platforms made a generation earlier. …