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Cloudy Supercomputers Join the HPC Petascale Club
Living in the future, as we do now, you no longer have to expend huge amounts of capital to build a petaflops-scale supercomputer. …
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One Service Mesh To Tie Google Anthos Together
Public clouds bring a lot of advantages to enterprises, such as more flexibility and scalability for their many of their workloads, a way to avoid expensive capital costs by using someone else’s infrastructure and having someone else manage it all, and the ability to pay only for the resources they use. …
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When it Comes to File Services, the Cloud is Catching Up
There has been a quiet revolution in storage happening and for once, it has not been led by the decades-old companies catering exclusively to on-prem deployments. …
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Microsoft Brings IBM Power Iron To Azure Cloud
Under most circumstances, the major public cloud builders would like to use their own iron in their datacenters. …
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VMware’s Head – And Future – Is In The Clouds
More than a decade ago, VMware and its new server virtualization technology represented significant threat to traditional OEMs like Dell, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard (now Hewlett Packard Enterprise) who were selling their boxes to enterprises that had to over-provision the systems they were bringing into make sure there was enough compute capacity to handle the biggest spikes in demand over the course of the year. …
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Sometimes, AI Hardware Economics Argue For Colocation
Nvidia’s DGX platforms are powerhouses for training neural networks, offering up to 2 petaflops of peak machine learning performance. …
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Bare Metal Cloud Takes the Fight To On-Premise HPC Clusters
In the HPC cloud business, Oracle is a relative newcomer. As we reported in November 2018, the company jumped into the fray less than a year ago with HPC bare metal servers hooked together with a 100 Gb/sec RDMA network. …
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Big Blue’s Red Hat Brings A Big Change Of Heart
Perhaps, many years hence, we will call the company that, more than any other, created the enterprise computing environment Big Purple now that it has acquired the company that made open source software in the enterprise safe, sane, and affordable. …
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Counting The Cost Of Scaling HPC Applications
It is very rare indeed to get benchmark data on HPC applications that shows it scaling over a representative number of nodes, and it is never possible to get cost allocations presented that allow for price/performance comparisons to be made for clusters of different physical sizes and the increase in throughput that more scale brings. …
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Have The Public Clouds Killed Hadoop?
The big players in the Hadoop data analytics market continue to hit headwinds in a rapidly evolving market that now includes competition from Amazon Web Services and top-tier major cloud providers that offer enterprises services for managing and analyzing the huge amounts of data that they are generating. …