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Why Would HPE Buy Juniper Networks?
It looks like Hewlett Packard Enterprise might be having a datacenter networking revival. …
HPE
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Ethernet Switching Bucks The Server Recession Trend
You might be thinking that with all of the investment in AI systems these days that the boom in InfiniBand interconnect sales would be eating into sales of high-end Ethernet interconnects in the datacenter. …
HPC
University Of Stuttgart Spends €115 Million To Go Exascale
The University of Stuttgart’s High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) in Germany has tapped Hewlett Packard Enterprise to build a pair of its next-generation supercomputers. …
Compute
Datacenter Infrastructure Report Card, Q3 2023
It is hard to keep a model of datacenter infrastructure spending in your head at the same time you want to look at trends in cloud and on-premises spending as well as keep score among the key IT suppliers to figure out who is winning and who is losing. …
Control
Arrow Hits the Mark for Petabyte-Class Analytics Problems
When we first talked to Voltron Data following their launch in early 2022, we had to take care to explain why Apache Arrow was worth paying attention to and why it might warrant the level of enterprise support the startup promised. …
Compute
With HPC Humming Along, HPE Awaits Its AI Boom
The ProLiant server business is down in the dumps, and the storage business is in a slump. …
Compute
The Edge Propels HPE While Datacenter Taps The Brakes
Customers of Hewlett Packard Enterprise have one foot on the gas and one foot on the brakes at the same time that the company is transitioning from selling gear outright to customers to selling them subscriptions that spread the cost – and therefore HPE’s recognized revenues – out over time. …
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Ethernet Consortium Shoots For 1 Million Node Clusters That Beat InfiniBand
Here we go again. Some big hyperscalers and cloud builders and their ASIC and switch suppliers are unhappy about Ethernet, and rather than wait for the IEEE to address issues, they are taking matters in their own hands to create what will ultimately become an IEEE standard that moves Ethernet forward in a direction and speed of their choosing. …
AI
NCSA Builds Out Delta Supercomputer With An AI Extension
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois just fired up its Delta system back in April 2022, and now it has just been given $10 million by the National Science Foundation to expand that machine with an AI partition, called DeltaAI appropriately enough, that is based on Nvidia’s “Hopper” H100 GPU accelerators. …
AI
Cisco Guns For InfiniBand With Silicon One G200
It was a fortuitous coincidence that Nvidia was already working on massively parallel GPU compute engines for doing calculations in HPC simulations and models when the machine learning tipping point happened, and similarly, it was fortunate for InfiniBand that it had the advantage of high bandwidth, low latency, and remote direct memory access across GPUs at that same moment. …