
OpenPower Collective Opens For System Business
It has been about a year since the OpenPower Foundation was formed to provide a development locus for systems based on the Power8 processor and its varied I/O technologies. …
It has been about a year since the OpenPower Foundation was formed to provide a development locus for systems based on the Power8 processor and its varied I/O technologies. …
One size does not fit all when it comes to merchant silicon chips that are used to build network devices for enterprise, hyperscale, and service provider customers. …
Search engine giant Google only talks about the underlying technology that it deploys in its datacenters years after they have been commercialized and a replacement has been developed and put into use. …
For a company that was formed well before electricity, consumer products company, Procter and Gamble, has continued to modernize. …
Hoarding data using commodity storage servers is “cheap and cheerful,” as the phrase goes. …
Facebook and its peers in the hyperscale sector have been pushing the very closed network switch business to open up and embrace hardware designs that look more like X86 servers and that are based on a Linux operating system. …
In yet another example of how distributed systems sometimes work better than centralized ones, the hardware engineers at Microsoft have come up with a new battery-backed power supply for their homegrown servers that allows for massive – and expensive – battery rooms to be eliminated from the cloud giant’s datacenters. …
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. …
The first of the server processors based on Intel’s “Broadwell” cores and using its 14 nanometer chip making processes comes to market today. …
The first Xeon processor aimed at datacenter workloads that is based on Intel’s “Broadwell” core has been launched. …
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