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Addressing Is The Secret Of Power8 CAPI
As we have heard for a long time, the promise is here of having a true “system on a chip.” …
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A Look Inside TGEN’s Approach to Genomics Infrastructure
The Translational Genomics Research Institute in Arizona is one of a handful of non-profit centers in the U.S. …
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Mont-Blanc Sets The Stage For ARM HPC
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center, which has done a significant amount of research and development on alternative architectures for supercomputers over the years, has just fired up a prototype system based on the kinds of ARM chips that are typically found in smartphones and other client devices. …
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Locking Down The Most Vital Servers
All things being equal, all IT organizations would like to have the highest level of security on their machines that is possible. …
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X86 Servers Dominate The Datacenter–For Now
It has always been our contention that recessions drive successive waves of technology transitions in the datacenter. …
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Altera Points To The FPGA Writing On The Wall
For those who marveled at the $16.7 billion deal Intel made to acquire field programmable gate array maker, Altera, an equal number raised eyebrows at the estimate given by Intel CEO to announce the purchase that one-third of cloud workloads would take advantage of FPGA acceleration by 2020. …
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Intel Finishes Haswell Xeon E5 Rollout, Launches Broadwell E3
The Computex trade show in Taipei, Taiwan is the traditional place where Intel has put out its Xeon E3 processors for diminutive and graphics-accelerated servers, and this week the chip maker is indeed rolling out a variant of this chip using its “Broadwell” cores. …
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Flexing ARM to Reach a New Generation of CERN Machines
CERN is set to go dark for a brief period in the 2018 timeframe to allow for a new sweep of technology upgrades, including the build-out of new datacenters, some of which might leverage non-standard architectures, including ARM processors. …
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How Intel Is Hedging On The Future Of Compute With Altera Buy
Now that the on-again, off-again deal between Intel, the world’s largest maker of processors, and Altera, one of the dominant makers of field programmable gate arrays, is going to happen for the tidy sum of $16.7 billion in cash, Intel is poised to usher in a new era of computing while at the same time countering the many competitive threats it has in the datacenter. …