We have been talking about the impending and now delivered 100 Gb/sec speeds for InfiniBand used by HPC centers and for Ethernet to be used by hyperscalers that it is hard to remember sometimes that the enterprise is a significant laggard when it comes to network bandwidth. …
I recall teaching a college class in operating systems, when well into the class, thinking I was getting the points across, a few of the students stopped the class and asked “Yes, but what really is an operating system?” …
In a series of articles over the last two weeks, we have taken a close look at how the storage stack might be changing for next-generation high performance computing sites—not to mention similarly sized installations for very large-scale enterprise. …
By now, as we have seen in other parts of this series, we have a pretty good sense for the basic topology of The Machine from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. …
The French Atomic Energy agency (CEA) is one of the leading centers for nuclear weapons and energy research in Europe, and as such, is one of the top sources in Europe to watch for extreme scale computing trends. …
Make of this what you will: IBM’s server business is up and has grown for four quarters in a row, but as best as we can figure, its real systems business – the collection of hardware, software, and services that it peddles on its own iron – has not grown because its software sales are flagging. …
Last week, in an article on the pending death of the parallel file system, a note was made about an effort out of Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) called MarFS, which will serve as the intermediary solution to allow very large centers to take advantage of cloud-style object storage using a more familiar POSIX approach. …
This is the third in the series of articles on The Machine, a future system coming from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. …
Rumors of the death of the monolithic parallel file system are not exaggerated. …
In the previous article on Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s future system, called The Machine, we talked about the organization of its basic building block, a node of compute and storage as seen again below. …
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