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Are ARM Virtualization Woes Overstated?
As we have seen with gathering force, ARM is making a solid bid for datacenters of the future. …
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Datacenters, Poised To Spend, Take A Breather From Intel
Would you rather have tens of thousands of customers who collectively spend a lot of money but their spending rises and falls with the gross domestic product, or a couple of dozen customers who spend almost as much on your product but who do so with massive checks that are not always predictable? …
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Cavium Buys Access To Enterprise With QLogic Deal
Might doesn’t make right, but it sure does help. One of the recurring bothers about any technology upstart is that they are smaller Davids usually up against vastly larger Goliaths, usually with a broader and deeper set of technologies covering multiple markets. …
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The Walls Come Down On The Last Bastion Of Proprietary
Open source software has done a lot to transform the IT industry, but perhaps more than anything else it has reminded those who architect complex systems that all elements of a datacenter have to be equally open and programmable for them to make the customizations that are necessary to run specific workloads efficiently and therefore cost effectively. …
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Skylake Xeon E3s Serve Up Cheap Flops
AMD gets a lot of credit for creating Accelerated Processing Units that merge CPUs and GPUs on a single package or on a single die, but Intel also has a line of chips Core and Xeon processors that do the same thing for workstation and server workloads. …
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Leaving Fixed Function Switches Behind For Universal Leafs
There are two competing trends in platform designs that architects always have to contend with. …
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Hyperscalers, Enterprises Pull Back On Server Spending
The server cycle has some long waves that are not always in phase with each other, and that is generally a good thing. …
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AWS Brings Supercomputing Set Further into Fold
Back in 2009, when yours truly was assigned the primary beat of covering supercomputing on remote hardware (then dubbed the mysterious “cloud”), the possibility that cloud-based high performance computing was little more than a pipe dream. …
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IBM Extends GPU Cloud Capabilities, Targets Machine Learning
As we have noted over the last year in particular, GPUs are set for another tsunami of use cases for server workloads in high performance computing and most recently, machine learning. …
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Google And Friends Add Prometheus To Kubernetes Platform
There are a lot of moving parts in a modern platform, and in this regard, they are no different from the platforms made a generation earlier. …