There are two endpoints in any network connection, and you have to focus on both the server adapter and the switch to get the best and most balanced performance out of the network and the proper return on what amounts to be a substantial investment in a cluster. …
One of the things that high-end network adapter and switch maker Mellanox Technologies got through its $811 million acquisition of network processing chip maker EZchip last September was a team that was well versed in massively parallel processor chip design, and one that could make Mellanox a potential player in the server chip space. …
It has been a long time since the dominant architecture in the datacenter has been monolithic systems running siloed applications fed by a three tier network. …
There has been steady evolution in the high performance computing (HPC) industry over the past twenty years, as companies have sought to increase the performance of their data centers. …
Larry Ellison, co-founder and chief technology officer of database, middleware, and application software giant Oracle, caught the hardware bug pretty bad when he decided to buy Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion in early 2009. …
Not every organization that relies on supercomputers can replace a whole machine in one fell swoop. …
Every supercomputing center in the world is wrestling with the issues of power, cooling, and compute density, but some have tighter constraints than others and need to have more energy efficient machines than they can get with standard clusters of rack servers. …
Proprietary and quasi-proprietary interconnects are nothing new to the supercomputing space, and in fact, this is where they still live and thrive and evolve. …
Like other makers of supercomputers, the Bull unit of French services and system maker Atos is embracing the new processing technologies coming out of Intel. …
Even though Intel is best known in the datacenter as the maker of server processors and their chipsets, the company has increasingly become a platform thinker in the past decade. …
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