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. …
Lenovo
Control
Lenovo Breathes New Life into xCAT Cluster Manager
Like so many tried and true software platforms for high performance computing, the IBM-developed distributed computing management software, xCAT (Extreme Cluster Administration Toolkit), has been powering cluster needs since before the dawn of the new millennium. …
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. …
Compute
China Triples Top Supercomputer Count in 2015
The results of the Top 500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers has just been announced, and while there are no big surprises at the top outside of a couple of new additions, the real news sits farther down the stack—and could speak volumes about the global supercomputing race in terms of which countries are pushing investments. …
Compute
Nutanix Expands Hyperconvergence Footprint
Storage servers in their many forms are rapidly making traditional storage arrays, with their custom electronics, a thing of the past, and hyperconverged server-SAN hybrids are a hot commodity in the enterprise datacenter because they radically simplify virtualized infrastructure and deliver some of the operational benefits that hyperscalers have created for their own converged infrastructure. …
HPC
Shifting Tides for China’s Next Wave of Supercomputers
While the news of the last few years has clearly indicated that China is at the top of the world when it comes to chart-topping supercomputers, the storyline is evolving—and the picture for high performance computing in Asia is not as rosy as many believe. …
Cloud
Lenovo To Bring HPC Expertise To Bear In New Markets
When Lenovo Group bought the System x division from IBM last fall, it got a lot more than a business that sells rack and tower servers based on X86 processors. …
Compute
Prototype ARM Clusters Muscle Into HPC
Server maker Lenovo might have just shelled out billions of dollars to acquire IBM’s System x X86 server business, but don’t be confused. …