The list of technologies that has been created because of the limitations of traditional, enterprise-grade relational databases is quite long, and yet these tried and true technologies persist at the heart of the modern enterprise. …
The history of digital computing is to provide increasing levels of abstraction to get programmers further and further away from directly manipulating the ones and zeros. …
What if a hyperscale rack designer decided not to locally optimize legacy form factors for thermal management, but instead to start over and design a rack based on optimizing thermal efficiency? …
What is the difference between a SmartNIC and a server processor? …
It is amazing how fast open source Linux displaced open systems Unix from the HPC datacenters of the world. …
Lenovo is, among all of the major suppliers of HPC systems in the world, perhaps uniquely positioned to have a very large share of the HPC market. …
Sales of various kinds of high performance computing – not just technical simulation and modeling applications, but also cryptocurrency mining, massively multiplayer gaming, video rendering, visualization, machine learning, and data analytics – run on little boom-bust cycles that make it difficult for all suppliers to this market to make projections when they look ahead. …
If it’s the SC18 supercomputing conference, then there must be lists. …
Oracle was famously behind the cloud computing curve, with co-founder and then-CEO Larry Ellison several years ago dismissing it as little more than an empty tag that was more on par with fashion trends than anything serious in the tech world. …
More than five years ago, Nvidia, driven by its co-founder and CEO, Jensen Huang, turned its considerable focus to developing technologies for the revitalized and burgeoning artificial intelligence space. …
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