Compute
HPC Flows Into Hyperscale With Dell Triton
Dell recently unveiled its datacenter liquid cooling technology under the codename of Triton. …
Dell
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. …
Compute
The Uptake Of Broadwell Xeons Begins
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. …
Cloud
Dell Looks Ahead To Skylake Xeon Systems
The tick-tock of Intel’s Xeon server chip product cycles means that some generations are more important than others, and while we welcome the “Broadwell” Xeon E5 v4 chips that are impending, it is safe to say that the confluence of the “Skylake” Xeon E5 v5 chips with a slew of new memory and fabric technologies next year will quite possibly be the most transformative year we have seen in systems since the “Nehalem” Xeon launch back in March 2009. …
Cloud
Rising Clouds Lift Server Fortunes
The voracious appetite for compute and storage capacity among hyperscalers and cloud builders once again drove the server market to new heights as 2015 came to a close, and unless some wobbling from Hewlett Packard Enteprise and Cisco Systems is a leading indicator of a slowdown – and we do not think it is – then this year will probably also be a record setter. …