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HPE Superdome Flex: The Other Big Iron In The Datacenter
Not every workload can be chunked up and spread across a relatively loosely coupled cluster of cheap X86 server nodes. …
Superdome Flex
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HPE Boots Up Sandbox Of The Machine For Early Users
It has been four years since Kirk Bresniker, HPE Fellow, vice president, and chief architect at Hewlett Packard Labs, stood before a crowd of journalists and analysts at the company’s Discover show and announced plans to create a new computing architecture that puts the focus on memory and will eventually use such technologies as silicon photonics and memristors. …
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Cramming The Cosmos Into A Shared Memory Supercomputer
The very first Superdome Flex shared memory system has gone out the door at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and it is going to an HPC center that has big memory needs as it tries to understand the universe that we inhabit. …
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HPE’s Superdome Gets An SGI NUMAlink Makeover
When Hewlett Packard Enterprise bought supercomputer maker SGI back in August 2016 for $275 million, it had already invested years in creating its own “DragonHawk” chipset to build big memory Superdome X systems that were to be the follow-ons to its PA-RISC and Itanium Superdome systems. …