There is a simple test to figure out just how seriously social network Facebook is taking machine learning, and it has nothing to do with research papers or counting cat pictures automagically with neural networks. …
The datacenter is a tough battleground, with vendors at every part of the stack pushing and pulling against each other to try to win business. …
If it was as easy as global replacing a bunch of MIPS cores with a bunch of ARM cores, then network chip makers Cavium and Broadcom would already have long since put their respective “ThunderX” and “Vulcan” 64-bit ARM server processors into the market. …
Technologies are not the only things that pollinate across the HPC, hyperscale, cloud, and enterprise sectors of the IT economy. …
Time and again, commercial Hadoop distributor MapR Technologies has demonstrated the value of the MapR-FS file system that underpins its Hadoop stack and differentiates it, more than any other feature, from the other Hadoop platforms with which it competes. …
For most applications running in the datacenter, a clever distributed processing model or high availability clustering are enough to ensure that transaction processing or pushing data into a storage server will continue even if there is an error. …
Software wants to be free, or more precisely, the organizations that deploy software for specific functions in their platform stack want to be able to do so on the systems that they choose rather than the ones that a vendor that is fond of its hardware margins chooses. …
At the moment, there are two types of software container users, but in the long run, there will probably only be one. …
By definition, the national HPC labs are on the very bleeding edge of supercomputing technology, which is necessary given the scope and scale of the problems they are trying to solve through simulation and analysis and enabled by the largesse of their budgets. …
You have no doubt heard the one about making it up in volume, a jokey phrase that people use when a business has to crank out more and more widgets to stay in the same place. …
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