It is great that Hewlett Packard Enterprise is taking the storage bull by its horns with The Machine and working to create a complete compute and storage platform for the day when the needed technologies will all come together. …
Formula One racing teams have the need for speed, and even more importantly, acceleration. …
D.E. Shaw Research, the company founded by quantitative finance pioneer, professor, and entrepreneur, David E. …
We can talk about storage and networking as much as we want, and about how the gravity of data bends infrastructure to its needs, but the server – or a collection of them loosely or tightly coupled – is still the real center of the datacenter. …
One look at the architectural ambitions for next-generation supercomputers in the United States versus those in Europe reveals an expected, but no less striking, emphasis on ARM systems for high performance computing applications. …
I recall teaching a college class in operating systems, when well into the class, thinking I was getting the points across, a few of the students stopped the class and asked “Yes, but what really is an operating system?” …
By now, as we have seen in other parts of this series, we have a pretty good sense for the basic topology of The Machine from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. …
Silicon photonics has emerged as one of those areas of such far-reaching potential that its challenges and benefits tend to be clouded in generalities. …
Make of this what you will: IBM’s server business is up and has grown for four quarters in a row, but as best as we can figure, its real systems business – the collection of hardware, software, and services that it peddles on its own iron – has not grown because its software sales are flagging. …
There are so many annual rites in the IT sector that it almost has the feel of a religion sometimes. …
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