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Server Encryption With An FPGA Offload Boost
Everyone talks about security on infrastructure, but it comes at a heavy cost. …
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Ranking High Performance Interconnects
With the increasing adoption of scale-out architectures and cloud computing, high performance interconnect (HPI) technologies have become a more critical part of IT systems. …
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Competition Heats Up In Cluster Interconnects
Any time a ranking of a technology is put together, that ranking is always called into question as to whether or not it is representative of reality. …
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Next-Gen Network Adapters: More Oomph, Switchless Clusters
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. …
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Putting More Brains In The Network Frees Up Compute
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. …
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The Road To 200G Networks Starts With The Transceiver
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. …
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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. …
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Drilling Into The Systems At The Oil And Gas Majors
HPC centers like to boast about the details of their supercomputing systems because they are political machines as much as they are tools for running simulations. …
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Intelligent Networks: A New Co-Processor Emerges
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. …
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Oracle Engineers Its Own InfiniBand Interconnects
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. …