Storage systems are inherently data intensive. But the rapid emergence of artificial intelligence as a standard datacenter workload has storage vendors scrambling to design platforms that better meet the more stringent performance needs of these applications. …
Systems management has always been in a race to catch up with the innovation in systems, and it is always nipping at the heels. …
It took decades for server virtualization to go mainstream, making their way from hardware and software partitions on mainframes three decades ago down to proprietary and Unix systems two decades ago to X86 servers with VMware, XenServer, Microsoft, and Red Hat all doing their part. …
There are just two Arm-powered supercomputers on the latest TOP500 rankings: the “Astra” system at Sandia National Laboratories and Fujitsu’s new A64FX prototype. …
The confluence of big data, AI, and edge computing is reshaping the contours of high performance computing. …
At our HPC Day event ahead of the SC19 conference, supercomputing expert and Linpack creator Jack Dongarra talked about his new HPL-AI benchmark. …
One of the recurring themes at the recent HPC Day event that we hosted ahead of the SC19 supercomputing conference in Denver was that capability class supercomputers are getting more and more expensive. …
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