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Three Secrets Of How Facebook Copes With Scale
The entire premise of language and the storage of communication is founded on a principle that we can learn from the mistakes and successes of others. …
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Forecast Calls for GPU Packed Supercomputer Nodes
In the course of tracking commercial and research supercomputers here at The Next Platform, it has become apparent that this is the year for massive refreshes and updates to existing weather prediction systems. …
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Back To The Future Of Scale
There are many different kinds of scale that system architects are wrestling with, and over the five decades of the modern computer business, a number of techniques have been employed, often concurrently in the same system, to try to goose the overall performance of machinery over time. …
Cloud
Intel’s Plan To Grow Its Share Of Datacenter Wallets
The only number you need to remember about Intel’s Data Center Group business for the next three years is this one: 15 percent. …
AI
How Can IBM Power8 Win Deals Away From Intel Xeon?
This is not the first time that Big Blue has found itself the underdog in the datacenter, and it probably will not be the last time, either. …
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Matching Xeon Phi Performance to Genomic Analysis
When it comes to DNA analysis, large-scale pattern matching algorithms are constantly being refined to add a performance and efficiency boost to speed the time to result and accordingly, the practical implementation of fast analysis for more accurate, timely, personalized medical care and research. …
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Custom Servers Cool, Custom Storage White Hot
If the server and storage markets are bellwethers for the underlying strength of the economy, as we at The Next Platform believe, then the global economy has been perhaps more healthy than other indicators might have been pointing to. …
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Is Quantum Computing Set For An Investment Boom?
Despite the woes heaped onto investors in the past couple of weeks, the future is still out there, waiting to be created. …
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What In-Memory Computing Actually Means
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. …
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Hyperconvergence Finally Gets Scale At VMware
The last thing that server virtualization juggernaut VMware wants to do is become a hardware vendor. …