Compute
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. …
Hyperscale
Connect
New Dune Chips Enable Heftier Switches
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. …
Compute
Google Looks Ahead To OpenPower Systems
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. …
Compute
Nvidia Tweaks Pascal GPU For Deep Learning Push
Chip maker Nvidia has come a long way in transforming its graphics processors so they can not only be used to drive screens, but also to work as efficient and powerful floating point engines to accelerate modeling and simulation workloads. …
Cloud
Qumulo File System Tackles Petabyte Scale Data Management
Hoarding data using commodity storage servers is “cheap and cheerful,” as the phrase goes. …
Connect
Facebook Ops Director On Breaking Open The Switch
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. …
Cloud
How This Battery Cut Microsoft Datacenter Costs By A Quarter
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. …
Compute
Lessons And Time Drive Better Microserver Designs
Sometimes a microserver is just a little too micro to do the job, something that a lot of skeptics have been saying about so-called “wimpy core” machines since the idea took off about five years ago. …
Cloud
A Deep Dive Inside The HP Cloudline Servers
If you can’t beat them, join them. That is the old adage that compelled server juggernaut Hewlett-Packard to strike a partnership with original design manufacturer Foxconn last year for a new line of minimalist servers that HP could sell against other ODM upstarts that have stormed the datacenters of hyperscale and cloud service providers in recent years. …
Cloud
Hyperscale, Cloud Drive Infrastructure Capacity Up, Prices Down
If you think that the giants of the hyperscale and cloud world have a hankering for minimalist, custom servers forged by original design manufacturers, you should see the appetites they have for their storage gear–it is a lot larger perhaps than many realize. …