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HPE Superdome Flex: The Other Big Iron In The Datacenter

September 28, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

Not every workload can be chunked up and spread across a relatively loosely coupled cluster of cheap X86 server nodes. …

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Big Iron Will Always Drive Big Spending

September 21, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Starting way back in the late 1980s, when Sun Microsystems was on the rise in the datacenter and Hewlett Packard was its main rival in Unix-based systems, market forces compelled IBM to finally and forcefully field its own open systems machines to combat Sun, HP, and others behind the Unix movement. …

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Changing Of The Guard For HPC And Big Iron At HPE

March 3, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has been building a mainstream and grassroots server business aimed at large enterprises, HPC centers, and academic and government institutions for two decades. …

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Big Iron Xeons Get A Broadwell Compute And Memory Boost

June 6, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

Intel is coming to the finish line with its 14 nanometer chip making process with the launch of the “Broadwell” generation of Xeon E7 server processors in China today. …

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