The new Intel “Knights Landing” processor’s topology includes what it calls near memory, an up to 16 GB block of on-package memory accessible faster and with higher bandwidth than traditional main memory. …
It was hyperscalers Facebook and Apple that put enterprise flash memory card maker Fusion-io on the map a few years ago as they used its storage to accelerate their massive databases, accounting for the majority of its revenues in 2011 and 2012 and a big chunk in 2013. …
Competing against a giant like Cisco Systems in the switch industry is never an easy task, but Mellanox Technologies has managed to carve out a sizeable niche in the supercomputing arena with its low-latency, high bandwidth InfiniBand and adapters. …
What is stronger than the US dollar? The cloud computing division of online retailing giant Amazon, which would have long since been in a heap of trouble with Wall Street if it had not fired up its utility computing service back in March 2006. …
The next generation of higher bandwidth and lower cost Ethernet switching for the datacenter is beginning, and privateer Dell is coming out swinging with new open switches based on the “Tomahawk” network ASICs from Broadcom. …
While there are plenty of companies that have built a core competency in IT infrastructure acquisition and management, and think they can provide themselves a competitive edge based on those skills, it looks like there is a growing and potentially much larger cadre of companies who simply do not want to be messing around with basic infrastructure anymore. …
The HPC and hyperscale camps do not always get along, but they are often trying to solve similar problems when it comes to application scheduling and resource management on clusters. …
IBM finalized the spinoff of its System x X86 server business to Lenovo Group back in October, and the first quarter of 2015 is the first glimpse that we have of a Big Blue that is focused solely on its Power Systems and System z mainframes. …
Everywhere we turn in the datacenter, monolithic software is being smashed into smaller chunks that can be isolated from each other and tweaked as needed without having to recompile and test a giant pile of code. …
Architects are optimists. In the computer industry, particularly within the HPC community, there is a small cadre of technologists who have the intellectual horsepower, vision and decades of experience to build wholly new system designs. …
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