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University Gears Up to Receive One of the First Omni-Path Machines

February 25, 2016 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

One of the first Knights Landing, Omni-Path supercomputers will be hitting the floor in Colorado in the coming months, and while one of the lead decision-makers for the system says they are expecting to see it in May (well ahead of when Knights Landing and Omni-Path were expected to appear, even for early ship programs), that buffer time provides a chance to make the necessary tweaks and optimizations to ensure that a scientific computing software stack is primed and ready for the changes Omni-Path in particular will bring about. …

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Tachyon Caching Is Bigger Than Spark In-Memory

February 25, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

When the founding committer of the Spark in-memory computing framework becomes the CEO of a company that has dropped out of stealth mode and will very likely soon be offering support for a new storage caching layer for the modern, distributed computing era that will span beyond Spark, you have to stop and take notice. …

Hadoop, Spark, Deep Learning Mesh on Single GPU Cluster

February 24, 2016 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 1

When it comes to leveraging existing Hadoop infrastructure to extend what is possible with large volumes of data and various applications, Yahoo is in a unique position–it has the data and just as important, it has the long history with Hadoop, MapReduce and other key tools in the open source big data stack close at hand and manned with seasoned experts. …

ARM, Open Source Feed Buzz Around HPC File System

February 24, 2016 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

There is but a small cadre of scalable parallel file systems and while the list might be small, weighing the relative benefits of each option against the available resources can be a challenge, as Sven Breuner and his HPC admin colleagues at the Fraunhofer Institute realized in 2004. …

Docker Trickles Down From Hyperscale To Enterprise

February 23, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

The story for the adoption of new technologies follows a familiar narrative arc: The innovators create something, and it takes some time for the hype to die down and the software to mature and harden before it is appropriate for the rest of the market to consume. …

CPU Based Exascale Supercomputing Without Accelerators

February 23, 2016 Rob Farber 9

Intel has been pursuing a long-term, multi-faceted set of investments to create the processors and technologies needed to build CPU-based supercomputers that can deliver exascale levels of performance in a cost and energy efficient fashion. …

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Oracle Engineers Its Own InfiniBand Interconnects

February 22, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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. …

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The 25G Ethernet Ramp Starts On The Server

February 22, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

There are two sides to every server network connection coming out of the rack, and staunch competitors are vying to own as much of the circuitry real estate that drives those connections as they can possibly attain. …

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Open Hardware Means More Than Saving Money For Rackspace

February 19, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The religious fervor of open source software has settled down and reality has settled in. …

Will Enterprises Do Single Source Or Hybrid Clouds?

February 18, 2016 Issy Ben-Shaul 0

To say that public cloud infrastructure as a service is seeing explosive growth is an understatement. …