Compute
Smashing The Server To Put It Back Together Better
Sometimes you have to break something to make it work right. …
Compute
Compute
Nutanix Expands Hyperconvergence Footprint
Storage servers in their many forms are rapidly making traditional storage arrays, with their custom electronics, a thing of the past, and hyperconverged server-SAN hybrids are a hot commodity in the enterprise datacenter because they radically simplify virtualized infrastructure and deliver some of the operational benefits that hyperscalers have created for their own converged infrastructure. …
Compute
An Acceleration Boost for Legacy Theoretical Physics Code
One of the ultimate legacy high performance computing applications, Lattice QCD (quantum chromodynamics) has been adapted to run efficiently on Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. …
Compute
ARM Servers: What Can AMD Do, And How Fast?
As we pointed out in the analysis opening up this series on the future prospects for ARM-based servers, it has been quite a challenge getting all of the hardware, software, and money lined up to storm the datacenter. …
Compute
Genomics Marks The Next Sequence For FPGAs
There is a perfect storm developing that is set to whisk the once esoteric field programmable gate array (FPGA) processor ecosystem off the ground and into the stratosphere. …
Compute
Inside Oracle’s New Sparc M7 Systems
The core counts keep going up and up on server processors, and that means system makers do not have to scale up their systems as far to meet a certain performance level. …
Code
Inside The Programming Evolution of GPU Computing
Back in 2000, Ian Buck and a small computer graphics team at Stanford University were watching the steady evolution of computer graphics processors for gaming and thinking about how such devices could be extended to fit a wider class of applications. …
Cloud
Ellison Pits Oracle Cloud Against AWS, Azure
Oracle co-founder and now chief technology officer Larry Ellison may have come late to the term cloud computing, but the database giant that expanded into middleware and applications over his tenure was not – definitely not – late to understanding the transformational aspects of compute utilities hosting application software. …
Compute
SGI Targets Oracle In-Memory On Big Iron
For the past several years, SGI has been extending itself beyond its traditional supercomputing customer base out into the broader enterprise at large. …
Cloud
Transition To Platforms, Cloud Tough For IBM
Being in business for over 100 years is an accomplishment, and IBM has made more than a few jarring transitions in its long history, having started out as a supplier of meat slicers, scales, time keeping, and punch card tabulating machines. …