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. …
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. …
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. …
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. …
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. …
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