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Have Integrated System Sales Peaked Already?
Call them integrated systems, or platforms, or engineered systems. Call them what you will, but they have become a sizeable – but nowhere near dominant – part of the systems market. …
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GPU Accelerators Radically Boost SQL Queries
In-memory databases are all the rage for very fast query processing, but you have to have the right balance of compute and memory for queries against in-memory databases to really scream. …
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Hyperscale Systems Make Headway Into HPC
Hyperscale datacenters and supercomputing centers have some of the same limits when it comes to budgets, electricity consumption, cooling, and space, so it is not much of a surprise that HPC customers are taking a hard look at some of the custom server designs created for hyperscalers. …
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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. …