Pushing Hadoop and HPC into the Same Box
Consider the metaphor of pushing an elephant into a small box. …
Consider the metaphor of pushing an elephant into a small box. …
To some, there is a raging debate about whether companies will migrate their applications to vast public clouds or run them in hybrid mode, with some data and applications on premises in private clouds and some on the public cloud or clouds. …
Formula One racing teams have the need for speed, and even more importantly, acceleration. …
Even though Intel is best known in the datacenter as the maker of server processors and their chipsets, the company has increasingly become a platform thinker in the past decade. …
After a boisterous first couple of years when the concept was new, sales of so-called “engineered systems” or integrated platforms, as the box counters at IDC call them, were rising steadily alongside of the adjacent market for converged infrastructure. …
Call them integrated systems, or platforms, or engineered systems. Call them what you will, but they have become a sizeable – but nowhere near dominant – part of the systems market. …
From its mainframes to the modern Power architectures, few companies have pushed investments into chip designs with the gusto IBM has over the years. …
Tailoring systems for specific jobs is one of the foundational themes of The Next Platform, so we like to keep an eye on the segments of the systems market that have a particular platform bend to them. …
As we described in detail in the previous section of this series on the state of Lustre and the roadmap for the parallel file system, beyond traditional HPC, the file system has some weaknesses for large-scale enterprise shops. …
While it is generally considered stable and reliable in large-scale environments, Lustre is not without a few key weaknesses, which the small vendor community supporting it are often first to point out. …
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