Compute
Weaving Together The Machine’s Fabric Memory
This is the third in the series of articles on The Machine, a future system coming from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Compute
The Glass House Is Still Intel’s Piggy Bank
Intel had been warning for several months that revenues for its Data Center Group would decelerate a bit as 2015 wound down, and this has indeed happened. …
Cloud
Clever Ethernet Switching Rises From Calxeda ARM Ashes
Upstart ARM server chip maker Calxeda, known as Smooth Stone in its early days in reference to the five stones that David picked out of a riverbed to kill Goliath the giant with his slingshot, went bust back at the end of 2013 after a five year run to try to be the world’s first volume supplier of ARM server chips. …
Compute
Will AMD’s Seattle Push ARM Servers Into The Mainstream?
With the launch today by AMD of the “Seattle” Opteron A1100, that makes three 64-bit ARM processors that are finally in production for servers, storage, and switches in the datacenter. …
Compute
Bigger Iron Drives Better NOAA Weather Forecasts
Not every organization that relies on supercomputers can replace a whole machine in one fell swoop. …
Control
Tricking Out OpenStack To Scale It Out
The recent OpenStack Tokyo event offered a view of the growth and maturation of this vital open source cloud technology. …
Compute
The Intertwining Of Memory And Performance Of HPE’s Machine
In the previous article on Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s future system, called The Machine, we talked about the organization of its basic building block, a node of compute and storage as seen again below. …
Compute
Future NCAR Supercomputer To Precipitate Climate Research
The first big supercomputing deal of the new year has been unveiled. …
Compute
Cray CTO Connects The Dots On Future Interconnects
The bottlenecks never get removed from a system, they just shift around as you change one component or the other. …
Control
Bloomberg Trades Static Clusters For Homegrown Mesos
When it comes to trading stocks, bonds, and other financial instruments, Bloomberg is usually in the middle with its eponymous terminals, which have more than 325,000 subscribers worldwide. …