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Offloading The Network Like A Hyperscaler
Offloading parts of the network stack from processors to specialized circuits on network adapter cards is not a new idea. …
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Light at the End of the Silicon Photonics Tunnel
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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Disaggregation Busts Open Switch Operating Systems
In case you haven’t noticed, the switch at the heart of the datacenter is being torn apart and commoditized at all levels. …
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Clever Ethernet Switching Rises From Calxeda ARM Ashes
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. …
Compute
Cray CTO Connects The Dots On Future Interconnects
The bottlenecks never get removed from a system, they just shift around as you change one component or the other. …
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Facebook Busts Out Of Homegrown Switches
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. …
Compute
HPE Synergy Hits Reset For Composable Infrastructure
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. …
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Software Defined Networking Is Crossing The Chasm
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. …
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A New Age In Cluster Interconnects Dawns
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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Applied Micro Chases Xeons With X-Gene 3 And NUMA
If ARM processors are going to get traction in the datacenter, they will have to do so outside of the conservative glass houses of large enterprises. …