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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. …
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DNA Sequencing: Not Quite HPC Yet
DNA sequencing has been driving unprecedented discoveries in the life sciences since the emergence of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies ten years ago. …
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Prototype ARM Clusters Muscle Into HPC
Server maker Lenovo might have just shelled out billions of dollars to acquire IBM’s System x X86 server business, but don’t be confused. …
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How Machine Learning Will Improve Servers
In an ideal world, you would not buy a server unless you knew how all of the components that comprise it would work together for several years supporting your specific applications. …
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Inside an Evolving Genomics Cluster
From processors, memory, network, and beyond, making architectural choices to support large-scale genomics research is often fed as much by trial and error as it is empirical knowledge about what will work for a demanding application set. …
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Tesla Compute Drives Nvidia Upwards
The graphics processor business was humming along as Nvidia ended its fiscal 2015 year in late January. …
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Manufacturers Making Workstation To Cluster Leap
As one of the fastest growing markets in HPC, the manufacturing sector is looking to supercomputing to drive its next generation of product modeling and simulation. …
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VMware ESX Scale Pushed Up And Out By User Demands
After a decade of expanding the various capacities of its server virtualization hypervisor, ESXi, and the virtual machines that run on it, you might think that VMware was pretty much done with boosting these two key components of its virtualization wares. …
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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. …