It has been a noteworthy year in hardware in the world of high performance computing, although to be fair, much of the attention has been centered on emerging architecture and future systems that are set to start appearing as early as this time next year. …
Online auctioneer eBay was founded a year after Amazon and is older than Google, Facebook, and a number of the other hyperscalers. …
There is a gentle touch of hypocrisy about the supercomputing world. …
For more than a decade, graphics processor maker Nvidia has been championing the adoption of GPU accelerators as heavy-lifting compute engines for an increasing array of applications that can take advantage of the parallel processing inherent in a GPU. …
The next wave of virtualization on servers is not going to look like the last one. …
Sometimes you have to break something to make it work right. …
There is a perfect storm developing that is set to whisk the once esoteric field programmable gate array (FPGA) processor ecosystem off the ground and into the stratosphere. …
Oracle co-founder and now chief technology officer Larry Ellison may have come late to the term cloud computing, but the database giant that expanded into middleware and applications over his tenure was not – definitely not – late to understanding the transformational aspects of compute utilities hosting application software. …
A public cloud is, at its most basic level, a giant shared computing facility that spans a datacenter or multiple datacenters, and as such, it needs a kind of operating system of its own to make the collection of servers, storage, and switches behave as a single machine to both its users and to the company that is operating the cloud. …
The Power8-based “Barreleye” server being engineered by cloud and hosting provider and OpenStack champion Rackspace Hosting has moved off the drawing boards and into silicon, printed circuit board, and bent metal. …
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