Part II is published: The Nitty Gritty of In-Memory Computing can be found here
Not really very long ago the terms In-Memory Computing (IMC) and In-Memory Database (IMDB) seemed to start showing up big time. …
The last thing that server virtualization juggernaut VMware wants to do is become a hardware vendor. …
The “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi processor from Intel will be shipping by the end of the year and ramping in volume through 2016, and it is set to shake up the systems market in a number of significant ways. …
After three years of research into how it might accelerate its Bing search engine using field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), Microsoft came up with a scheme that would let it lash Stratix V devices from Altera to the two-socket server nodes in the minimalist Open Cloud Servers that it has designed expressly for its hyperscale datacenters. …
Open source hardware and microprocessor projects are certainly nothing new, and while there has been great momentum on the CPU front, there have not been efforts to release an open source GPU into the wild. …
While many recognize Yann LeCun as the inventor of convolutional neural networks, the momentum of which has ignited artificial intelligence at companies like Google, Facebook, and beyond, LeCun has not been strictly rooted in algorithms. …
The vast majority of the so-called “engineered systems” that Oracle sells into datacenters are based on Intel Xeon processors. …
The Data Center Solutions custom server unit of Dell is one of the big success stories of the IT supplier. …
The IT sector was bracing for a slowdown in system spending a few weeks ago, but it doesn’t look much like a slowdown has materialized, despite warnings from server adapter card maker QLogic that its business had slowed because the ramp for Intel’s “Haswell” Xeon E5 v3 processors and their “Grantley” server platform was not as fast as QLogic hoped. …
It is still early days in the software container revolution, and Microsoft is working as fast as it can to be able to leverage Docker containers and minimalist operating systems to make its Windows Server stack competitive with other platforms. …
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