Control
Teaching Grid Engine To Speak Mesos
The HPC and hyperscale camps do not always get along, but they are often trying to solve similar problems when it comes to application scheduling and resource management on clusters. …
Control
Code
Virtualization Giant VMware Takes On Cloud-Native Microservices
Everywhere we turn in the datacenter, monolithic software is being smashed into smaller chunks that can be isolated from each other and tweaked as needed without having to recompile and test a giant pile of code. …
Cloud
With Nano Server And Containers, Microsoft Takes On Linux
Linux might have a 25 percent share of the server installed base, depending on who you ask, but it is The Next Platform of choice for new kinds of middleware and applications and has a much higher penetration on cloudy infrastructure. …
Cloud
Tectonic Set To Shake Up Google Style Containers
Technologies that are developed at hyperscale companies that operate applications at the datacenter scale, rather than of the server or the rack, can be tweaked to work for smaller enterprise customers. …
Compute
OpenStack And KVM Give Windows New Life On Big Iron
Branching out from the HPC sector into the enterprise does not necessarily require supporting operating systems other than Linux. …
Control
HPC Schedulers Snap To Docker
Over the last couple of years, Docker has become an increasingly popular tool for web-scale companies like eBay, but it appears to finally be catching on for some supercomputing centers. …
Control
SUSE Shares View on HPC to Enterprise Transition
Linux is far and away the dominant operating system inside the largest supercomputing sites with 485 of the Top 500 list of fastest machines sporting some variant. …
Compute
How Machine Learning Will Improve Servers
In an ideal world, you would not buy a server unless you knew how all of the components that comprise it would work together for several years supporting your specific applications. …
Control
Cluster Management Comes Full Circle
When it comes to cluster computing, what’s old is new again– at least for Global 2000 companies that are leaving behind the monolithic enterprise systems and appliances and moving into the scale-out Linux cluster camp. …