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A Purified Implementation Of NVM-Express Storage
NVM-Express holds the promise of accelerating the performance and lowering the latency of flash and other non-volatile storage. …
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Cloud
VMware Tweaks NSX Virtual Networks For Containers, Microservices
VMware jumped into burgeoning software-defined networking (SDN) field in a big way four years ago when it bought started Nicira for $1.26 billion, a deal that led to the launch of VMware’s NSX offering a year later. …
Compute
Battle Of The InfiniBands
When it comes to HPC, compute is like the singers in a rock band, making all of the noise and soaking up most of the attention. …
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Breaking Memory Free Of Compute With Gen-Z
Servers have become increasingly powerful in recent years, with more processing cores being added and accelerators like GPUs and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) being added, and the amount of data that can be processed is growing rapidly. …
Compute
The TOP500 is Dead, Long Live The TOP500
Twice a year, the TOP500 project publishes a list of the 500 most powerful computer systems, aka supercomputers. …
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Mellanox Poised For HDR InfiniBand Quantum Leap
InfiniBand and Ethernet are in a game of tug of war and are pushing the bandwidth and price/performance envelopes constantly. …
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Juniper Dons Red Hat To Ease Cloud Migration
Distributed telecommunications cloud environments offer service providers a way to more quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively deliver services to end users, but they come with their share of complexity, management headaches, integration challenges and coordinating operations among multiple cloud vendors. …
Compute
How The Largest Tech Deal In History Might Affect Systems
Private equity firm Silver Lake Partners has an appetite for tech, and securing funding for Dell to take itself private and then go out and buy EMC and VMware is now going to take a backseat in terms of deal size – and in potential ripple effects in the datacenter – now that chip giant Broadcom is making an unsolicited bid, backed by Silver Lake, to take over often-times chip rival Qualcomm. …
Cloud
For Google Networks, Predictable Latency Trumps Everything
If you want to build infrastructure that scales larger than a single image of a server and an operating system, you have no choice but to network together multiple machines. …
Cloud
The Tug Of War Between InfiniBand And Ethernet
If you want to get a microcosmic view of the epic battle between Ethernet and InfiniBand (which also includes Omni-Path no matter how much Intel protests) as they relate to high performance computing in its many modern guises, there is perhaps no better place to look at what Mellanox Technologies is selling. …