Cloud
Microsoft Azure Adds GPUs, Beefs Up CPU Compute
For certain kinds of modeling, simulation, and machine learning workloads, the advent of GPU coprocessors has been a watershed event. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Cloud
CPU Virtualization In The Cloud: Getting Your Slice, And More
In the first part in this series, we talked about the nature of processor virtualization on different systems and how this affects the underlying capacity and performance of compute in cloud infrastructure. …
Code
Exascale HPC Needs An Application Innovation Spark
Every evolution in computing hardware brings with it big challenges for software developers. …
Control
What Makes Containers At Scale So Difficult
As has been demonstrated, it is relatively easy to launch tens of thousands of containers on a single host. …
AI
MemSQL Wants To Be The Storage Engine For Spark
The Spark in-memory processing framework that came out of the AMPLab at the University of California at Berkeley is hotter than hot. …
Cloud
CPU Virtualization: The Tech Driving Cloud Economics
We can rent as much or as little compute capacity or storage or connectivity as we want, and we can get it when we want it. …
Compute
Engineered Systems Decline, Converged Systems Boom
After a boisterous first couple of years when the concept was new, sales of so-called “engineered systems” or integrated platforms, as the box counters at IDC call them, were rising steadily alongside of the adjacent market for converged infrastructure. …
Connect
Dell Goes Modular With Tomahawk 25G Switches
The “Tomahawk” switch chips from Broadcom, which are based on the new 25G Ethernet standard crafted by hyperscalers, are starting to appear in more and more devices. …
Code
Inside The GitHub Systems Where Open Source Lives
Sometimes the best way to cope with scale is to keep things simple and do everything you can to avoid it. …
AI
Google Fires Up Spark, Hadoop Service On Its Cloud
If Google knows a lot about one thing, it is that developers do not want to spend a lot of time setting up infrastructure just so they can create applications that chew on lots of data to run the business. …