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Rambus Returns to Carve Path in Server Memory Market
Perhaps it is not fair to title an article in a way that suggests a company has disappeared from the market or requires a triumphant return. …
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Future Systems: How HP Will Adapt The Machine To HPC
When Hewlett-Packard launched its moonshot effort to create a new computing architecture centered on non-volatile memory last year, called The Machine, many people jumped to a number of wrong conclusions. …
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Future Systems: Intel Fellow Conjures The Perfect Exascale Machine
While companies are beginning to think at the rack scale and hyperscalers like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and others have long since been thinking about computing at the scale of an entire datacenter, it is important to remember that computing happens at the server node and therefore the server node architecture matters. …
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The Secret To Supermicro’s Quiet, Stunning Success
You would be hard pressed to find a more cut-throat market than for selling servers into datacenters. …
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IBM Roadmap Extends Power Chips To 2020 And Beyond
The cadence of server processor launches by the remaining companies that still etch their chips has slowed in recent years, starting first with the low-volume players like IBM, Oracle, and Fujitsu and now possibly spreading to Intel with its Xeon line and already baked in with its Xeon Phi line with a roughly three year span between generations. …
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The Need For A New HPC Architectural Direction: Revolution or Evolution?
Baseball legend and locker-room philosopher Yogi Berra once imparted this sage advice: “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” …
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Why Hyperconvergence Hasn’t Yet Taken Off At The High End
We spend a lot of time at The Next Platform thinking about technologies that trickle down from on high – whether they come from HPC centers or hyperscalers – and gradually go mainstream and end up in the datacenters of large enterprises. …
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Future Systems: Pitting Fewer Fat Nodes Against Many Skinny Ones
Lining up the architectures of future supercomputers is interesting because it gives us a glimpse of what may be in the corporate datacenter many more years out. …
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Amadeus Takes Off With Containers And Clouds
Before there were Internet-based search engines that anybody could use to look for anything, one of the toughest jobs in computing was helping people work through travel agencies to book flights, cars, and hotels when they travel. …
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Future Systems: Intel Ponders Breaking Up The CPU
When it comes to systems, the first thing that most people think of is compute. …