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What’s Really Driving HPC Decisions in Oil and Gas?
Not long ago, we learned that a new Cray XC40 supercomputer would be installed in the coming months for Norwegian oil and gas processing company Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS). …
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Traders Bank On Server Switch Hybrids For Performance Boost
Drawing the lines where the server ends and the network begins is getting more and more difficult. …
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OpenStack And KVM Give Windows New Life On Big Iron
Branching out from the HPC sector into the enterprise does not necessarily require supporting operating systems other than Linux. …
Cloud
Disks Hold Their Own Against Flash On Clouds
With the prices of flash storage coming down fast to meet a kind of parity with disk storage, and solid state memory having obvious throughput and energy savings benefits compared to spinning rust, you might think that disk drives would be pretty much dead out there on the public clouds. …
Cloud
InfiniBand Too Quick For Ethernet To Kill
Try as it may, Ethernet cannot kill InfiniBand. For the foreseeable future, the very high-end of the server, storage, and database cluster spaces will need a network interconnect that can deliver the same or better bandwidth at lower latency than can Ethernet gear. …
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Energy Giant Total Triples Flops On Pangea Supercomputer
Tis the season for massive supercomputer deals in the oil and gas segment. …
Compute
Why Intel Might Buy FPGA Maker Altera
For the past two decades, Intel has taken on the processor makers for servers and storage in the datacenter and vanquished all but a few suppliers of alternative architectures from the glass house. …
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Optical Processors Bring Light Touch to Genomics
There have been numerous attempts to bring optical processors into the mainstream computing fold, but they remain far behind their silicon cousins for practical reasons including programmability and overall practicality, especially since host processors and full infrastructure are still required to support them. …
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FPGA Market Floats Future on the Cloud
It’s possible to count the number of major FPGA vendors on one hand, and despite a desire to differentiate, they are flocking together around some key areas where FPGA market growth seems most promising. …
HPC
Embedded dCache Proven at CERN Scale
For some companies and research centers, managing access to massive pools of stored data across different systems has been a persistent challenge, especially with variations in file systems. …