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Linux Containers Will Disrupt Virtualization Incumbents
The next wave of virtualization on servers is not going to look like the last one. …
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IBM Back In HPC With Power Systems LC Clusters
With the sale of its System x division to Lenovo Group last fall and the winding down of its BlueGene massively parallel computing line, IBM lost a lot of its market presence in the high performance computing space. …
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Exascale HPC Needs An Application Innovation Spark
Every evolution in computing hardware brings with it big challenges for software developers. …
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IBM Draws OpenPower Line In The X86 Sand
History moves in spirals, not straight lines, widening our experience and our options, coming around again and again with variations on similar themes. …
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EMC Tracks Trickle Down Effect from the Exascale Bubble
For companies that make investments in high performance computing technology, the financial math can be a tricky game. …
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IBM Roadmap Extends Power Chips To 2020 And Beyond
The cadence of server processor launches by the remaining companies that still etch their chips has slowed in recent years, starting first with the low-volume players like IBM, Oracle, and Fujitsu and now possibly spreading to Intel with its Xeon line and already baked in with its Xeon Phi line with a roughly three year span between generations. …
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What the White House Exascale Backing Means For Future HPC
Today the White House issued an executive presidential order to create a national strategic computing initiative. …
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IBM Readies Power8+ For OpenPower Push
When it comes to high performance computing, IBM is in a phase change that will take it several years to complete with its key OpenPower infrastructure partners, Nvidia and Mellanox Technologies. …
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Momentum Building For Knights Landing Xeon Phi
Intel is the undisputed champion when it comes to computing in the datacenter, and it is looking to vanquish IBM’s Power processors from enterprise systems and supercomputer clusters and to keep the handful of ARM server chip upstarts at bay as they try to get in the datacenter door, too. …
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IBM’s Power Roadmap Extended By Chip Breakthrough
Hot on the heels of the closing of the deal that divests its semiconductor business and places it in the hands of Globalfoundries, the former chip making business of AMD that is controlled by the government of Abu Dhabi, IBM and its academic and chip industry partners have announced that they have successfully etched chips with transistors that are 7 nanometers in size – significantly smaller than current processes and extending the Moore’s Law curve one more step. …