AI
HPC Clusters Lead a Double Life with Hadoop
The number of production Hadoop clusters is growing, but far too often, that means the number of dedicated clusters just for running it is expanding as well. …
Cloud
Cloud
Hyperscale, Cloud Drive Infrastructure Capacity Up, Prices Down
If you think that the giants of the hyperscale and cloud world have a hankering for minimalist, custom servers forged by original design manufacturers, you should see the appetites they have for their storage gear–it is a lot larger perhaps than many realize. …
Cloud
Lenovo To Bring HPC Expertise To Bear In New Markets
When Lenovo Group bought the System x division from IBM last fall, it got a lot more than a business that sells rack and tower servers based on X86 processors. …
Cloud
Flash Gears Up To Displace Disk In Datacenters
Sometime before the end of this year, it will be possible to get a petabyte of raw flash storage capacity that fits within a 3U rack enclosure, and if current trends persist, such a device will cost the same or less than a disk array equipped with reasonably capacious and zippy disk drives. …
Cloud
Risk Modeling Upstart Finds Edge With GPU Clouds
The phrase, “past results are not indicative of future returns” can be applied across the board in life, but in financial services, this philosophy has become a strategic, mathematical principle to live by. …
Cloud
CoreOS Hyperscales Linux By Making It Invisible
Operating systems matter and they always will matter on the systems that run the applications of the world. …
Cloud
New Protocol Targets Cloud Scalability
It is no accident that virtualizing the network has taken longer than virtualizing servers or storage, and it is similarly not a coincidence that the hyperscale datacenter operators and a small number of very large businesses have decided to build their own switches and routers operating systems for these devices. …
Cloud
Welcome To The Next Platform
The best ideas are usually the oldest ones, thought up by early geniuses and perfected incrementally by others, and this is no less true in computing. …