Cloud
Leaving Fixed Function Switches Behind For Universal Leafs
There are two competing trends in platform designs that architects always have to contend with. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Connect
Putting More Brains In The Network Frees Up Compute
One of the things that high-end network adapter and switch maker Mellanox Technologies got through its $811 million acquisition of network processing chip maker EZchip last September was a team that was well versed in massively parallel processor chip design, and one that could make Mellanox a potential player in the server chip space. …
Compute
South African Lengau System Leaps Towards Petaflops
There are plenty of people in industry, academia, and government that believe there is a direct correlation between the investment in supercomputing technologies and the healthy and vibrancy of the regional or national economy. …
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. …
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. …