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CPU Based Exascale Supercomputing Without Accelerators
Intel has been pursuing a long-term, multi-faceted set of investments to create the processors and technologies needed to build CPU-based supercomputers that can deliver exascale levels of performance in a cost and energy efficient fashion. …
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Open Hardware Means More Than Saving Money For Rackspace
The religious fervor of open source software has settled down and reality has settled in. …
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The Joys of Not Owning a Supercomputer
Shopping for high performance computing machinery can be a sobering experience. …
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China Lays The Chip Foundation For Its Next Platform
It would be far beyond the purview of The Next Platform to have deep insight to the complexity, scope, and scale of the Chinese economy. …
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Dell Brings Hyperscale Iron Down To Telco Clouds
With the Mobile World Congress kicking off next week in Barcelona, the IT market will for a few days be focusing a little more than usual on the infrastructure that underpins the mobile services that we all increasingly depend on in our day to day lives. …
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Nutanix Squeezes Lots More Performance From Server-SAN Hybrid
One of the big issues with any complex piece of distributed software is getting the most performance out of the scale inherent in the system. …
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EMC, VMware Push VSAN Hyperconvergence To The Limits
There are a lot of ways to build or buy hyperconverged server-storage hybrids, and EMC is working with sister company VMware to bring yet another way to market that could, in the end, be the preferred way for many enterprise customers. …
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ARM Servers: Qualcomm Maps Out Datacenter Battle Plan
Breaking into the datacenter with a new chip architecture is probably more difficult than getting by the security in a modern glass house and literally breaking into it, either physically or digitally over the wire. …
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Enterprises Take A Slight Pause To Process
As the dominant supplier of switches and routers to enterprise and service provider datacenters and as an upstart server maker that has carved out a hefty slice of the systems market in the past seven years, Cisco Systems is a harbinger of what is going on in terms of architectural shifts and spending among the world’s largest companies. …