Compute
How Oakforest-PACS Outpaced The K Supercomputer
In high performance computing in the public sector, dollars follow teraflops and now petaflops. …
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The Ascendancy Of Ethernet Storage Fabrics
It is hard to remember that for decades, whether a system was large or small, its storage was intricately and inescapably linked to its compute. …
Cloud
A Rare Peek Inside A 400G Cisco Network Chip
Server processor architectures are trying to break the ties between memory and compute to allow the capacities of each to scale independently of each other, but switching and routing giant Cisco Systems has already done this for a high-end switch chip that looks remarkably like a CPU tuned for network processing. …
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Signposts On The Roadmap Out To 10 Tb/sec Ethernet
The world of Ethernet switching and routing used to be more predictable than just about any other part of the datacenter, but for the past decade the old adage – ten times the bandwidth for three times the cost – has not held. …
Compute
The Prospects For A Leaner And Meaner HPE
The era of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s envious – and expensive – desire to become IT software and services behemoth like the IBM of the 1990s and 2000s is coming to a close. …
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Future Interconnects: Gen-Z Stitches A Memory Fabric
It is difficult not to be impatient for the technologies of the future, which is one reason that this publication is called The Next Platform. …
Compute
VMware’s Platform Revolves Around ESXi, Except Where It Can’t
Building a platform is hard enough, and there are very few companies that can build something that scales, supports a diversity of applications, and, in the case of either cloud providers or software or whole system sellers, can be suitable for tens of thousands, much less hundreds of thousands or millions, of customers. …
Cloud
The Rise Of The Fourth Wave Of Computing
According to a recent Jefferies report, the fourth wave of computing has started and it is being driven by the adoption of IoT with parallel processing as the solution. …
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Making Mainstream Ethernet Switches More Malleable
While the hyperscalers of the world are pushing the bandwidth envelope and are rolling out 100 Gb/sec gear in their Ethernet switch fabrics and looking ahead to the not-too-distant future when 200 Gb/sec and even 400 Gb/sec will be available, enterprise customers who make up the majority of switch revenues are still using much slower networks, usually 10 Gb/sec and sometimes even 1 Gb/sec, and 100 Gb/sec seems like a pretty big leap. …
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How Google Wants To Rewire The Internet
When all of your business is driven by end users coming to use your applications over the Internet, the network is arguably the most critical part of the infrastructure. …