It is week one of the new Dell Technologies, the conglomerate glued together with $60 billion from the remaining parts of the old Dell it has not sold off to raise cash to buy storage giant EMC and therefore server virtualization juggernaut VMware, which is owned mostly by EMC but remains a public company in the wake of the deal. …
The supercomputing industry is accustomed to 1,000X performance strides, and that is because people like to think in big round numbers and bold concepts. …
The most successful players in the information technology space are those that can adapt, again and again, to tumultuous change. …
We have profiled a number of processor updates and novel architectures this week in the wake of the Hot Chips conference this week, many of which have focused on clever FPGA implementations, specialized ASICs, or additions to well-known architectures, including Power and ARM. …
Being too dependent on one source for a key component is not just a bad idea because of supply chain risks, but because it can result in higher prices. …
For those interested in novel architectures for large-scale datacenters and complex computing domains, this year has offered plenty of fodder for exploration. …
Intel has the kind of control in the datacenter that only one vendor in the history of data processing has ever enjoyed. …
The polyphonic weavings of a fugue in baroque music is a beautiful thing and an apt metaphor for how we want orchestration on cloud infrastructure to behave in a harmonic fashion. …
It is a coincidence, but one laden with meaning, that Nvidia is setting new highs selling graphics processors at the same time that SGI, one of the early innovators in the fields of graphics and supercomputing, is being acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. …
It is going to take a lot of different things to build an exascale system. …
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