Compute
HP ProLiants Retooled For Hyperscale And In-Memory
Hewlett-Packard may not have created a business line dedicated to custom server manufacturing like rival Dell. …
Hyperscale
Control
Omega To Become Part Of Google’s Borg Collective
The fact that Google calls its massive-scale resource management framework “Borg” is, in itself, rather a brilliant thing. …
Compute
Google Will Do Anything To Beat Moore’s Law
For most companies in most industries, riding down the Moore’s Law curve to get more compute power for the same money is good enough. …
AI
Riding The Inevitable Curve From Analytics To Deep Learning
It is safe to say that there have never been more ways to store massive amounts of data of varying degrees of structure and to dice, slice, and correlate that data to gain some insight from it. …
Cloud
PCI-Express Flash Revamped To Compete With NVMe Drives
It was hyperscalers Facebook and Apple that put enterprise flash memory card maker Fusion-io on the map a few years ago as they used its storage to accelerate their massive databases, accounting for the majority of its revenues in 2011 and 2012 and a big chunk in 2013. …
Cloud
Mellanox Makes Interconnect Waves, Then Surfs On Them
Competing against a giant like Cisco Systems in the switch industry is never an easy task, but Mellanox Technologies has managed to carve out a sizeable niche in the supercomputing arena with its low-latency, high bandwidth InfiniBand and adapters. …
Cloud
Dell Strikes First, Cuts Deep With Tomahawk Switches
The next generation of higher bandwidth and lower cost Ethernet switching for the datacenter is beginning, and privateer Dell is coming out swinging with new open switches based on the “Tomahawk” network ASICs from Broadcom. …
Control
Teaching Grid Engine To Speak Mesos
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. …
Compute
AMD Hits Reset On Server Business
AMD doesn’t talk much about servers these days, but it looks like the company is getting ready to revamp its server component business just as it is shutting down its SeaMicro unit. …
Hyperscale
Inside The Ceph Exascale Storage At Yahoo
The hyperscale giants can’t wait for the IT industry to invent the technologies that they need for their own applications, but when the time is right an open source alternative grows up and out enough, they will often make the jump from their own software to another stack. …