Compute
Driving Compute And Storage Scale Independently
While legacy monolithic applications will linger in virtual machines for an incredibly long time in the datacenter, new scale-out applications run best on new architectures. …
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Shared Memory Pushes Wheat Genomics To Boost Crop Yields
Wheat has been an important part of the human diet for the past 9,000 years or so, and depending on the geography can comprise up to 40 percent to 50 percent of the diet within certain regions today. …
Compute
Oracle Steps With Moore’s Law To Rev Exadata Database Machines
Absorbing a collection of new processing, memory, storage, and networking technologies in a fast fashion on a complex system is no easy task for any system maker or end user creating their own infrastructure, and it takes time even for a big company like Oracle to get all the pieces together and weld them together seamlessly. …
Compute
MapD GPU Database Looks Forward To Heftier Iron
While GPUs are commonly used to accelerate massively parallel compute jobs that are behind simulations, media rendering, or machine learning algorithms, the next wave of growth could come from databases, thereby upsetting the balance of power in get another part of the datacenter infrastructure. …
Enterprise
Drilling Into The Systems At The Oil And Gas Majors
HPC centers like to boast about the details of their supercomputing systems because they are political machines as much as they are tools for running simulations. …
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Oracle Engineers Its Own InfiniBand Interconnects
Larry Ellison, co-founder and chief technology officer of database, middleware, and application software giant Oracle, caught the hardware bug pretty bad when he decided to buy Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion in early 2009. …
Compute
China Lays The Chip Foundation For Its Next Platform
It would be far beyond the purview of The Next Platform to have deep insight to the complexity, scope, and scale of the Chinese economy. …
Compute
HPE Fills A NUMA Server Gap With SGI UV Iron
It takes a lot of engineering talent, time, and money to create custom interconnects that are the basis of scale-up servers, which is one of the reasons that so few companies have been able to sustain that investment over the years. …
Compute
Future Systems: What Will Tomorrow’s Server Look Like?
We can talk about storage and networking as much as we want, and about how the gravity of data bends infrastructure to its needs, but the server – or a collection of them loosely or tightly coupled – is still the real center of the datacenter. …
Compute
IBM Doubles Up Memory, Adds Power8 CPUs For Big Iron
While the Power8 processor has been available from IBM since April 2014, the chips were only rolled out in Big Blue’s biggest iron in October of that year and the company only ramped up its largest Power8 machines, the Power Systems E880, to their fully extended NUMA configurations last May. …