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Inside eBay’s Shift To Kubernetes And Containers Atop OpenStack
Online auctioneer eBay was founded a year after Amazon and is older than Google, Facebook, and a number of the other hyperscalers. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
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Mellanox Turns InfiniBand Switches Into MPI Accelerators
One of the key themes to improving the performance of clusters running simulations has been the offloading of common routines from the central processors in the servers to accelerators in the network adapter cards that plug into the servers and that interface with switches. …
Enterprise
Transactional Memory Comes To The Storage Hierarchy
These are exciting times for the memory hierarchy in systems. New kinds of DRAM and non-volatile memories are becoming available to system architects to enhance the performance and responsiveness of the applications that run upon them. …
Compute
Nvidia Brings Maxwell GPUs To Tesla Coprocessors
The progression in performance per watt for Nvidia’s Tesla line of GPU coprocessors is continuing apace now that the graphics chip maker is delivering two shiny new devices based on its “Maxwell” generation of chips. …
Enterprise
Doing The Math For Enterprise-Grade Object Storage
Object storage is not a new technology, but it is something that many enterprises are just starting to adopt as they follow the hyperscalers and HPC centers away from the overhead and scalability limits of traditional storage and its file systems. …
Compute
Intel Blunts ARM Assault With Expanded Xeon D
Very few things happen in the IT vendor community without orchestration. …
Compute
The Expanding Ecosystem For GPU Compute
For more than a decade, graphics processor maker Nvidia has been championing the adoption of GPU accelerators as heavy-lifting compute engines for an increasing array of applications that can take advantage of the parallel processing inherent in a GPU. …
Control
Linux Containers Will Disrupt Virtualization Incumbents
The next wave of virtualization on servers is not going to look like the last one. …
Compute
Three Is The Magic Number For Hardware Cycles
When is the right time to get rid of servers and storage and replace them with shiny new gear? …
Compute
Smashing The Server To Put It Back Together Better
Sometimes you have to break something to make it work right. …