Compute
Squeezing The Joules Out Of DRAM, Possibly Without Stacking
Increasing parallelism is the only way to get more work out of a system. …
Store
Compute
Memory And Logic In A Post Moore’s Law World
The future of Moore’s Law has become a topic of hot debate in recent years, as the challenge of continually shrinking transistors and other components has grown. …
Compute
Like Flash, 3D XPoint Enters The Datacenter As Cache
In the datacenter, flash memory took off first as a caching layer between processors and their cache memories and main memory and the ridiculously slow disk drives that hang off the PCI-Express bus on the systems. …
Compute
A Peek Inside Facebook’s Server Fleet Upgrade
Having a proliferation of server makes and models over a span of years in the datacenter is not a huge deal for most enterprises. …
HPC
The Rise of Flash Native Cache
Burst buffers are growing up—and growing out of the traditional realm of large-scale supercomputers, where they were devised primarily to solve the problems of failure at scale. …
Enterprise
Making Remote NVM-Express Flash Look Local And Fast
Large enterprises are embracing NVM-Express flash as the storage technology of choice for their data intensive and often highly unpredictable workloads. …
Compute
Google Spanner Inspires CockroachDB To Outrun It
There is an old joke that in the post-apocalyptic world that comes about because of plague or nuclear war, only two things will be left alive: cockroaches and Keith Richards, the guitarist for the Rolling Stones. …
Cloud
Why Google’s Spanner Database Won’t Do As Well As Its Clone
Google has proven time and again it is on the extreme bleeding edge of invention when it comes to scale out architectures that make supercomputers look like toys. …
HPC
One Small Shop, One Extreme HPC Storage Challenge
Being at the bleeding edge of computing in the life sciences does not always mean operating at extreme scale. …
Compute
The New IBM Glass Is Almost Half Full
It takes an incredible amount of resilience for any company to make it decades, much less more than a century, in any industry. …