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. …
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. …
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