AI
Making Spark and Hadoop Run SQL Better And Faster
Here’s an image for you. There is no such thing as a data lake. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Control
Verizon Satisfies Google Envy With Mesos
No business can avoid being inspired if not somewhat alarmed by the vast infrastructure that the hyperscalers of the world have put together in the past decade and their ability to squeeze efficiencies out of their datacenters. …
Compute
What In-Memory Computing Actually Means
Part II is published: The Nitty Gritty of In-Memory Computing can be found here
Not really very long ago the terms In-Memory Computing (IMC) and In-Memory Database (IMDB) seemed to start showing up big time. …
Compute
Hyperconvergence Finally Gets Scale At VMware
The last thing that server virtualization juggernaut VMware wants to do is become a hardware vendor. …
Compute
Intel Stacks Knights Landing Chips Next To Xeons
The “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi processor from Intel will be shipping by the end of the year and ramping in volume through 2016, and it is set to shake up the systems market in a number of significant ways. …
Compute
Microsoft Extends FPGA Reach From Bing To Deep Learning
After three years of research into how it might accelerate its Bing search engine using field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), Microsoft came up with a scheme that would let it lash Stratix V devices from Altera to the two-socket server nodes in the minimalist Open Cloud Servers that it has designed expressly for its hyperscale datacenters. …
Compute
Oracle Aims “Sonoma” Sparc At Scale Out Clusters
The vast majority of the so-called “engineered systems” that Oracle sells into datacenters are based on Intel Xeon processors. …
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Inside China’s Homegrown 64-Core ARM Big Iron Chip
A little-known upstart Chinese chip maker called Phytium Technology was set to use the Hot Chips 27 conference in Silicon Valley as a coming out party of sorts for its 64-bit ARM server processors, and the company’s director of research, Charles Zhang, was not permitted to come to the event because of visa issues. …
Cloud
Dell Leverages Hyperscale Expertise For HPC, Clouds, And Enterprise
The Data Center Solutions custom server unit of Dell is one of the big success stories of the IT supplier. …
Compute
Slowdown? What Server Slowdown?
The IT sector was bracing for a slowdown in system spending a few weeks ago, but it doesn’t look much like a slowdown has materialized, despite warnings from server adapter card maker QLogic that its business had slowed because the ramp for Intel’s “Haswell” Xeon E5 v3 processors and their “Grantley” server platform was not as fast as QLogic hoped. …