There has been steady evolution in the high performance computing (HPC) industry over the past twenty years, as companies have sought to increase the performance of their data centers. …
How much of a premium do you think that networking behemoth Cisco Systems plans to charge for its 25G Ethernet switches compared to their 10G predecessors? …
One of the first Knights Landing, Omni-Path supercomputers will be hitting the floor in Colorado in the coming months, and while one of the lead decision-makers for the system says they are expecting to see it in May (well ahead of when Knights Landing and Omni-Path were expected to appear, even for early ship programs), that buffer time provides a chance to make the necessary tweaks and optimizations to ensure that a scientific computing software stack is primed and ready for the changes Omni-Path in particular will bring about. …
Larry Ellison, co-founder and chief technology officer of database, middleware, and application software giant Oracle, caught the hardware bug pretty bad when he decided to buy Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion in early 2009. …
There are two sides to every server network connection coming out of the rack, and staunch competitors are vying to own as much of the circuitry real estate that drives those connections as they can possibly attain. …
As the dominant supplier of switches and routers to enterprise and service provider datacenters and as an upstart server maker that has carved out a hefty slice of the systems market in the past seven years, Cisco Systems is a harbinger of what is going on in terms of architectural shifts and spending among the world’s largest companies. …
We have been talking about the impending and now delivered 100 Gb/sec speeds for InfiniBand used by HPC centers and for Ethernet to be used by hyperscalers that it is hard to remember sometimes that the enterprise is a significant laggard when it comes to network bandwidth. …
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. …
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