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Intel Slows Moore’s Law Pace As Enterprise Spending Tightens
This being the early years of the public cloud buildout, spending on infrastructure in this sector of the economy tends to be spikey and boisterous. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
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New Norms Of Managing The Hybrid Enterprise
A CIO’s job – to deliver highly available, interconnected systems and acceptable end user performance – was hard enough back in the days when all apps and systems ran under the same roof. …
Compute
What If NUMA Scaling Was Easier And Cheaper?
How different the datacenter would look if symmetric multiprocessing could somehow magically scale well beyond 32, 64, or 128 processors. …
Compute
IBM Readies Power8+ For OpenPower Push
When it comes to high performance computing, IBM is in a phase change that will take it several years to complete with its key OpenPower infrastructure partners, Nvidia and Mellanox Technologies. …
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SGI Launches UltraViolet Supers Ahead Of Schedule
SGI may be talking about its efforts to push into the enterprise space with special versions of its UltraViolet shared memory systems that are tuned up to run the SAP HANA in-memory database, but the supercomputer maker has not forgotten its core HPC customer base. …
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With Intel Alliance, HP Gets Serious About Supercomputers
Hewlett-Packard wants a bigger slice of the high performance computing and data analytics markets, and so does chip maker Intel. …
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Momentum Building For Knights Landing Xeon Phi
Intel is the undisputed champion when it comes to computing in the datacenter, and it is looking to vanquish IBM’s Power processors from enterprise systems and supercomputer clusters and to keep the handful of ARM server chip upstarts at bay as they try to get in the datacenter door, too. …
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Inside Intel’s Impending Omni-Path Interconnect
Intel has spent a considerable sum of money acquiring switching technologies over the past several years as well as doing a whole bunch of its own engineering so it can branch out in a serious way into the $25 billion networking business and keep its flagship Data Center Group growing and profitable. …
Compute
Dell Taps SGI For Scale-Up SAP HANA
Those of us who focus on the infrastructure layer of the next platforms that companies are building sometimes forget about the applications that ride on those platforms and give them a reason to be. …
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IBM’s Power Roadmap Extended By Chip Breakthrough
Hot on the heels of the closing of the deal that divests its semiconductor business and places it in the hands of Globalfoundries, the former chip making business of AMD that is controlled by the government of Abu Dhabi, IBM and its academic and chip industry partners have announced that they have successfully etched chips with transistors that are 7 nanometers in size – significantly smaller than current processes and extending the Moore’s Law curve one more step. …