Job schedulers that have their heritage in the supercomputing space are used to spreading work out over many server nodes and their underlying CPU cores and running them in batch mode, with parallel programming techniques. …
It has taken a little longer than expected, but then again, creating a datacenter operating system that mimics the sophisticated bare metal and virtualized systems inside of search engine giant Google is no simple task. …
About a year ago, search engine giant Google put out a whitepaper about how it was using machine learning to increase the efficiency of its datacenters, and now, executives at the company tell The Next Platform that the system is being put into production. …
William Lu was witness to one of the most successful business and technology stories in modern supercomputing from his long-term position as one of the first developers of the Load Sharing Facility (LSF) software from Platform Computing. …
The people in the systems business at Hewlett-Packard have finally caught the DevOps bug. …
Every new generation of systems architecture spawns its own set of management tools to automate the use of that technology and to deal with specific pain points in the architecture. …
The people behind the OpenStack cloud controller do not spend a lot of time worrying about the competition, whoever or whatever that might be. …
When all is said and done, the performance of applications matters more than any other technical aspect that drives them. …
Citrix Systems makes a living selling infrastructure software that manages the virtualization of servers and desktops and that bridges the gaps between those devices in a number of different and clever ways. …
Software containers are different from virtual machines and the hypervisers that host them, and they need a very different set of management tools to use them in large scale enterprise, hyperscale, and cloud environments. …
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