AI
GPU Accelerators Radically Boost SQL Queries
In-memory databases are all the rage for very fast query processing, but you have to have the right balance of compute and memory for queries against in-memory databases to really scream. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
AI
Scale And Database Pioneer Talks Hadoop Evolution
Hadoop started out as a batch-oriented system for chewing through massive amounts of unstructured data on the cheap, enabling all sorts of things such as search engines and advertising systems. …
Compute
Hyperscale Systems Make Headway Into HPC
Hyperscale datacenters and supercomputing centers have some of the same limits when it comes to budgets, electricity consumption, cooling, and space, so it is not much of a surprise that HPC customers are taking a hard look at some of the custom server designs created for hyperscalers. …
Connect
Bringing Hyperscale SDN Lessons Down To Enterprises
Everything seems to be easier for the hyperscalers than it is for large enterprises, but it is just an illusion created by the confluence of some of the best minds in IT with a whole lot of money. …
Code
VMware Blunts Container Attack With Bonneville VM
Having made its fortunes virtualizing the X86 servers at some 500,000 customers worldwide, there is no bigger threat to the continued financial success of server virtualization and cloud player VMware than the wild enthusiasm that software development teams have for Docker containers. …
Control
Container Rivals Bury The Hatchet, Forge Single Standard
The point of software containers is to provide a level of abstraction for bits of system and application programs so they can be run anywhere and maintained easily. …
Compute
Addressing Is The Secret Of Power8 CAPI
As we have heard for a long time, the promise is here of having a true “system on a chip.” …
Control
Grid Engine Retooled For Low-Latency, High Throughput
Job schedulers that have their heritage in the supercomputing space are used to spreading work out over many server nodes and their underlying CPU cores and running them in batch mode, with parallel programming techniques. …
Connect
Inside A Decade Of Google Homegrown Datacenter Networks
When search engine giant Google started planning and then building software-defined networks more than a decade ago, the term did not even exist yet. …
Connect
Mellanox Comes Out Swinging With 100G Spectrum Ethernet
Mellanox Technologies has long desired to be a major player in the Ethernet switching space, and with its forthcoming Spectrum switch ASICs and ConnectX-4 adapter cards, the company is positioning itself well to ride the next upgrade wave of Ethernet to roll into the datacenter. …