Compute
Traders Bank On Server Switch Hybrids For Performance Boost
Drawing the lines where the server ends and the network begins is getting more and more difficult. …
Compute
Compute
OpenStack And KVM Give Windows New Life On Big Iron
Branching out from the HPC sector into the enterprise does not necessarily require supporting operating systems other than Linux. …
Compute
Energy Giant Total Triples Flops On Pangea Supercomputer
Tis the season for massive supercomputer deals in the oil and gas segment. …
Compute
Engineered Systems Stall, Modular Systems Still Growing
Tailoring systems for specific jobs is one of the foundational themes of The Next Platform, so we like to keep an eye on the segments of the systems market that have a particular platform bend to them. …
Compute
Why Intel Might Buy FPGA Maker Altera
For the past two decades, Intel has taken on the processor makers for servers and storage in the datacenter and vanquished all but a few suppliers of alternative architectures from the glass house. …
AI
Emerging FPGA Analytics Market Delivers New Packages
As we touched on last week, field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are not a silver bullet that will rip through the enterprise datacenter world anytime soon. …
Compute
Where Will Future Xeon Phi Chips Land?
Intel’s forthcoming “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi processor is certainly an impressive beast, as The Next Platform revealed earlier this week. …
Compute
Optical Processors Bring Light Touch to Genomics
There have been numerous attempts to bring optical processors into the mainstream computing fold, but they remain far behind their silicon cousins for practical reasons including programmability and overall practicality, especially since host processors and full infrastructure are still required to support them. …
Compute
More Knights Landing Xeon Phi Secrets Unveiled
As readers of The Next Platform already know, the future “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi massively parallel processor was sighted at the Open Compute Summit a few weeks back, with an Intel motherboard called “Adams Pass” being dropped into an Open Compute sled and shown off by partner Penguin Computing as well as by Intel itself. …
Compute
FPGA Market Floats Future on the Cloud
It’s possible to count the number of major FPGA vendors on one hand, and despite a desire to differentiate, they are flocking together around some key areas where FPGA market growth seems most promising. …