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The University of Michigan Gets Serious About Supercomputing ROI
The University of Michigan is one of the top academic centers in the United States with over $1.5 billion in research expenditures in 2018. …
Gen-Z Memory Servers Loom On The Horizon
We have been waiting for a long, long time for the ionic bond between compute and main memory to be softened to something a little more covalent and therefore allow for more complex storage structures to be formed within systems and across them. …
How HPC, AI, and IoT Drive the Future of Smarter Vehicles
When many think of the Internet of Things (IoT) and connected vehicles from a compute perspective, the first thing that springs to mind is likely the small processors that are hard at work sensing, analyzing, and feeding data to remote systems. …
Operating A Campus-Wide HPC Center Like An Enterprise
For those involved with large-scale system planning, design, and procurement for campus-wide supercomputers, the target is balance. …
Putting On Demand Price Tags On Datacenter Gear
Traditional datacenter infrastructure suppliers have a complicated relationship with the cloud. …
Oil And Gas Giants Build Up Their Strategic GPU Reserves
When you are always looking for what platform architecture will be mainstream, you have to look at what those on the bleeding edge are doing to see what the leading edge might do, which in turn tells you what everyone else might eventually do. …
Qumulo Eyes More OEMs As It Refreshes HPE Partnership
Companies who offer software-defined products, by definition, rely on hardware providers in order to offer something useful to customers. …
Dell EMC’s PowerMax is Now All NVM-Express, Persistent Storage
When Dell EMC more than a year ago introduced the PowerMax storage array as the successor to the company’s all-flash VMAX offerings, the company touted the system’s readiness to leverage the NVM-Express (NVMe) protocol and, more importantly, its ability to serve as a gateway to NVMe-over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) and storage-class memory (SCM), both of which would address the growing demand for better performance and latency. …
VMware’s Head – And Future – Is In The Clouds
More than a decade ago, VMware and its new server virtualization technology represented significant threat to traditional OEMs like Dell, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard (now Hewlett Packard Enterprise) who were selling their boxes to enterprises that had to over-provision the systems they were bringing into make sure there was enough compute capacity to handle the biggest spikes in demand over the course of the year. …