With its research and development costs for its latest generations of 100 Gb/sec InfiniBand and Ethernet adapters and switches largely behind it and product sales ramping, switch maker Mellanox Technologies is significantly bolstering its top and bottom lines and positioning itself to make acquisitions to broaden and deepen its product lines. …
Offloading parts of the network stack from processors to specialized circuits on network adapter cards is not a new idea. …
Silicon photonics has emerged as one of those areas of such far-reaching potential that its challenges and benefits tend to be clouded in generalities. …
In case you haven’t noticed, the switch at the heart of the datacenter is being torn apart and commoditized at all levels. …
Upstart ARM server chip maker Calxeda, known as Smooth Stone in its early days in reference to the five stones that David picked out of a riverbed to kill Goliath the giant with his slingshot, went bust back at the end of 2013 after a five year run to try to be the world’s first volume supplier of ARM server chips. …
The bottlenecks never get removed from a system, they just shift around as you change one component or the other. …
There is a misconception out there that the hyperscalers of the world are so rich that they always have the shiniest new toys in their datacenters. …
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is hosting its first big shindig, the Discover Europe customer and partner conference, as a company separated from PCs and printers, and is trotting out a new line of systems, code named “Thunderbird” and sold under the brand HPE Synergy, that are follow-ons to its BladeSystem blade servers. …
It has been almost six years since the founders of Big Switch Networks started sitting in the research group meetings at Stanford University, which served as the birthplace for software-defined networking, and times have certainly changed. …
Proprietary and quasi-proprietary interconnects are nothing new to the supercomputing space, and in fact, this is where they still live and thrive and evolve. …
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