Servers are still monolithic pieces of machinery and the kind of disaggregated and composable infrastructure that will eventually be the norm in the datacenter is still many years into the future. …
The “Broadwell” generation of Xeon processors debuted a month ago, and now that the basic feeds and speeds are out there, customers are trying to figure out what to buy as they upgrade their systems and when to do it. …
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. …
The IT industry spends a lot of time obsessing about Moore’s Law and whether it is alive well or heading for the old folks home. …
The new Intel Xeon processors E5 v4 product family, based upon the “Broadwell” microarchitecture, is reported to deliver up to 47%* more performance across a wide range of HPC codes. …
The workhorse of the datacenter, the Xeon E5 processor, is getting a bit stronger today and will be able to pull slightly heavier workloads through the datacenter with the launch of the “Broadwell” Xeon E5-2600 v4 processors. …
For those who read here often, there are clear signs that the FPGA is set to become a compelling acceleration story over the next few years. …
Very few things happen in the IT vendor community without orchestration. …
The Computex trade show in Taipei, Taiwan is the traditional place where Intel has put out its Xeon E3 processors for diminutive and graphics-accelerated servers, and this week the chip maker is indeed rolling out a variant of this chip using its “Broadwell” cores. …
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