Looking Through the Windows at HPC OS Trends
High performance computing (HPC) is traditionally considered the domain of large, purpose built machines running some *nix operating system (predominantly Linux in recent years). …
High performance computing (HPC) is traditionally considered the domain of large, purpose built machines running some *nix operating system (predominantly Linux in recent years). …
In the absence of Power8+ processor upgrades this year, and with sales of midrange systems taking a bit of a hit in the third quarter, IBM has to do something to push its iron against Xeon E7 and Sparc M7 systems between now and when the Power9 machines are available in the second half of 2017. …
Linux container technology is IT’s shiny new thing. Containers promise to ease application development and deployment, a necessity in a business environment where getting ahead of application demand can mean the difference between staying in business or not. …
The very first systems that allow for GPUs to be hooked directly to CPUs using Nvidia’s NVLink high-speed interconnect are coming to market now that Big Blue is updating its Power Systems LC line of Linux-based systems with the help of hardware partners in the OpenPower Foundation collective. …
For decades, HPC centers were on the bleeding edge of any technology, but enterprises comprised most of the sales volume and so there was a bifurcation of those technologies. …
The next wave of virtualization on servers is not going to look like the last one. …
A public cloud is, at its most basic level, a giant shared computing facility that spans a datacenter or multiple datacenters, and as such, it needs a kind of operating system of its own to make the collection of servers, storage, and switches behave as a single machine to both its users and to the company that is operating the cloud. …
Microsoft doesn’t just love running Linux workloads on the Azure cloud. …
Linux is far and away the dominant operating system inside the largest supercomputing sites with 485 of the Top 500 list of fastest machines sporting some variant. …
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