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A New Era of Open Competition for HPC Begins
Every year people ask me what I think the biggest news story is at the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC). …
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Enterprise
Doing The Math For Enterprise-Grade Object Storage
Object storage is not a new technology, but it is something that many enterprises are just starting to adopt as they follow the hyperscalers and HPC centers away from the overhead and scalability limits of traditional storage and its file systems. …
Enterprise
Fat VMs Push Some Enterprises To All-Flash Arrays
Hyperscalers like Apple and Facebook helped flash vendors like Fusion-io, now part of SanDisk, get off the ground in such a big way that they could then attack the broader enterprise market. …
Enterprise
Storage Converges On Media Moguls
Media companies and supercomputing centers have similar compute, storage, and bandwidth issues, but their workloads and users vary enough that they require different kinds of systems. …
HPC
Benchmarking a Burst Buffer in the Wild
Those in the high performance computing world have been hearing about the applicability of burst buffers for some time now, but most talk about them is centered on their role in future pre-exascale systems at large HPC centers and national labs. …
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. …
Compute
Inside an Evolving Genomics Cluster
From processors, memory, network, and beyond, making architectural choices to support large-scale genomics research is often fed as much by trial and error as it is empirical knowledge about what will work for a demanding application set. …