Compute
Red Hat Is The Gatekeeper For ARM In The Datacenter
If any new hardware technology is going to get traction in the datacenter, it has to have the software behind it. …
Linux
Compute
Docker Completes Its Platform With DIY Linux
It all started with a new twist on an old idea, that of a lightweight software container running inside Linux that would house applications and make them portable. …
Control
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). …
Compute
IBM Overclocks Power8 To Take On “Broadwell” Xeon E7
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. …
Compute
Making The Case For Containers
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. …
Compute
Refreshed IBM Power Linux Systems Add NVLink
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. …
Connect
Mellanox Opens Up 25G Ethernet With Cumulus Linux
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. …
Control
Linux Containers Will Disrupt Virtualization Incumbents
The next wave of virtualization on servers is not going to look like the last one. …
Cloud
Azure CTO Plots The Future Of Cloud Building
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. …
Connect
Microsoft Crafts Homegrown Linux For Azure Switches
Microsoft doesn’t just love running Linux workloads on the Azure cloud. …