Cloud
The Server At Peak X86
One of the reasons why Dell spent $60 billion on the EMC-VMware conglomerate was to become the top supplier of infrastructure in the corporate datacenter. …
Dell
Compute
The New Dell Stops Trying To Be The Old IBM
It is week one of the new Dell Technologies, the conglomerate glued together with $60 billion from the remaining parts of the old Dell it has not sold off to raise cash to buy storage giant EMC and therefore server virtualization juggernaut VMware, which is owned mostly by EMC but remains a public company in the wake of the deal. …
Compute
Inside VMware Before It Dons The Dell Invisibility Cloak
Where do you go when you are an infrastructure software provider that already has 500,000 enterprise customers? …
Compute
HPC Flows Into Hyperscale With Dell Triton
Dell recently unveiled its datacenter liquid cooling technology under the codename of Triton. …
Compute
When HPC Becomes Normal
Sometimes, it seems that people are of two minds about high performance computing. …
Compute
Cisco Connects With SGI For Big NUMA Iron
When supercomputer maker SGI tweaked its NUMA server technology to try to pursue sales in the datacenter, the plan was not to go it alone but rather to partner with the makers of workhorse Xeon servers that did not – and would not – make their own big iron but who nonetheless want to sell high-end machines to their customers. …
Compute
South African Lengau System Leaps Towards Petaflops
There are plenty of people in industry, academia, and government that believe there is a direct correlation between the investment in supercomputing technologies and the healthy and vibrancy of the regional or national economy. …
Cloud
Hyperscalers, Enterprises Pull Back On Server Spending
The server cycle has some long waves that are not always in phase with each other, and that is generally a good thing. …
HPC
Knights Landing Upgrade Will Push TACC Supercomputer to 18PF
During a trip to Dell in Austin, Texas this week, little did The Next Platform know that the hardware giant and nearby Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) had major news to share on the supercomputing front. …
Compute
eBay Taps Dell Triton Systems To Overclock Search Engines
While online auctioneer eBay does not run the largest search engine in the world, search is a very key component of its service, which has over 162 million active buyers and 900 million product listings. …