ScaleXtreme Cloud Tools Reanimated
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. …
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. …
The fact that Google calls its massive-scale resource management framework “Borg” is, in itself, rather a brilliant thing. …
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. …
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. …
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. …
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. …
Branching out from the HPC sector into the enterprise does not necessarily require supporting operating systems other than Linux. …
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. …
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. …
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