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The Road To 200G Networks Starts With The Transceiver
It has been a long time since the dominant architecture in the datacenter has been monolithic systems running siloed applications fed by a three tier network. …
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Datacenters To Get A High Fiber Bandwidth Diet
Might doesn’t make right, but it sure does help. The hyperscalers, cloud builders, and co-location datacenters of the world that operate at massive scale have an interconnectivity problem, and it has nothing to do with the feeds and speeds of a switch. …
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Microsoft’s Embrace Of Linux Extends Its Reach
If you have not figured it out yet, this is not your grandfather’s Microsoft. …
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Mellanox Opens Up 25G Ethernet With Cumulus Linux
For decades, HPC centers were on the bleeding edge of any technology, but enterprises comprised most of the sales volume and so there was a bifurcation of those technologies. …
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Intelligent Networks: A New Co-Processor Emerges
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. …
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Homegrown 25G Chips Help Cisco Hold The Switch Line
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? …
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University Gears Up to Receive One of the First Omni-Path Machines
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. …
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Oracle Engineers Its Own InfiniBand Interconnects
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. …
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The 25G Ethernet Ramp Starts On The Server
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. …
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Enterprises Take A Slight Pause To Process
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. …