Cloud
Lenovo To Bring HPC Expertise To Bear In New Markets
When Lenovo Group bought the System x division from IBM last fall, it got a lot more than a business that sells rack and tower servers based on X86 processors. …
HPC
Cloud
Flash Gears Up To Displace Disk In Datacenters
Sometime before the end of this year, it will be possible to get a petabyte of raw flash storage capacity that fits within a 3U rack enclosure, and if current trends persist, such a device will cost the same or less than a disk array equipped with reasonably capacious and zippy disk drives. …
Enterprise
What Stands in the Way of Enterprise Lustre Adoption?
As we described in detail in the previous section of this series on the state of Lustre and the roadmap for the parallel file system, beyond traditional HPC, the file system has some weaknesses for large-scale enterprise shops. …
Compute
DNA Sequencing: Not Quite HPC Yet
DNA sequencing has been driving unprecedented discoveries in the life sciences since the emergence of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies ten years ago. …
Compute
Prototype ARM Clusters Muscle Into HPC
Server maker Lenovo might have just shelled out billions of dollars to acquire IBM’s System x X86 server business, but don’t be confused. …
Enterprise
Tracing the Enterprise Path for Lustre
While it is generally considered stable and reliable in large-scale environments, Lustre is not without a few key weaknesses, which the small vendor community supporting it are often first to point out. …
Compute
Inside an Evolving Genomics Cluster
From processors, memory, network, and beyond, making architectural choices to support large-scale genomics research is often fed as much by trial and error as it is empirical knowledge about what will work for a demanding application set. …
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. …
Compute
Tesla Compute Drives Nvidia Upwards
The graphics processor business was humming along as Nvidia ended its fiscal 2015 year in late January. …
Compute
Manufacturers Making Workstation To Cluster Leap
As one of the fastest growing markets in HPC, the manufacturing sector is looking to supercomputing to drive its next generation of product modeling and simulation. …