Compute
Avago-Broadcom To Take On Intel In The Datacenter
Might doesn’t make right in this world, but it sure helps. …
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Compute
The Other Cray Launches CPU-FPGA Hybrids
Everybody who is operating at any sort of scale is looking to pack more compute into a smaller space for less money. …
Enterprise
The Future Of Flash Is Massive Scale
There is no question that flash has utterly transformed the nature of storage in the datacenter, and that flash and other non-volatile memory that will replace it in the coming years will warp the architecture of systems. …
Hyperscale
Reworking the Schedule for Green Datacenters
The concept of datacenters powered by renewable energy sources, including wind and solar, is nothing new. …
Compute
Nvidia Tesla GM Moves To IBM To Steer HPC Efforts
IBM has been a pioneer in large scale, hybrid computing and has staked a substantial portion of the future of its Power platform, and the ones that partners are building in conjunction with it through the OpenPower Foundation, on the idea that various kinds of compute, storage, and interconnects will be used to fabricate systems that are precisely tailored to efficiently run specific workloads. …
Cloud
Breaking Down The Barriers To OpenStack Adoption
The people behind the OpenStack cloud controller do not spend a lot of time worrying about the competition, whoever or whatever that might be. …
HPC
What if Intel Rekindles Its Supercomputing Systems Business?
There is some speculation afoot that Intel is on a path to rekindle its supercomputer business, bringing it full circle to where it started in the late 1980s and early 1990s with its own distinct high performance computing division that produced top-tier national lab systems like ASCI Red, among others. …
Code
OpenStack Aims Magnum At Containers
Software containers are different from virtual machines and the hypervisers that host them, and they need a very different set of management tools to use them in large scale enterprise, hyperscale, and cloud environments. …
Compute
Tesla GPU Accelerator Unit Grows Fast For Nvidia
The broader adoption of GPU acceleration for workloads in the traditional high performance computing segment and expansion in new areas such as deep learning are driving revenues and profits at graphics chip maker Nvidia. …
Compute
Cray Makes Taming Chaos Look Easy
Low margins, an unpredictable cycle, expensive and ongoing research development efforts, a slavish commitment to processor upgrade timelines, and a market that will only ever grow so much—who wouldn’t want to be in the supercomputing systems business? …