Cloud
Xeon Bang For The Buck, Nehalem To Broadwell
The IT industry spends a lot of time obsessing about Moore’s Law and whether it is alive well or heading for the old folks home. …
Xeon
Compute
Broadwell Brings Xeon E5 A Balanced Performance Bump
The workhorse of the datacenter, the Xeon E5 processor, is getting a bit stronger today and will be able to pull slightly heavier workloads through the datacenter with the launch of the “Broadwell” Xeon E5-2600 v4 processors. …
Cloud
Dell Looks Ahead To Skylake Xeon Systems
The tick-tock of Intel’s Xeon server chip product cycles means that some generations are more important than others, and while we welcome the “Broadwell” Xeon E5 v4 chips that are impending, it is safe to say that the confluence of the “Skylake” Xeon E5 v5 chips with a slew of new memory and fabric technologies next year will quite possibly be the most transformative year we have seen in systems since the “Nehalem” Xeon launch back in March 2009. …
Cloud
Telcos Call On ARM To Compete For Compute
The hyperscaler and HPC organizations of the world are not the only places where innovation happens with infrastructure. …
Compute
Hybrid Compute Drives Energy Efficient Oil Reservoir Modeling
It is convenient, perhaps, that large scale computing evolved just about the time the easiest and biggest strikes for oil and natural gas were over. …
Enterprise
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. …
Compute
ARM Servers: Qualcomm Maps Out Datacenter Battle Plan
Breaking into the datacenter with a new chip architecture is probably more difficult than getting by the security in a modern glass house and literally breaking into it, either physically or digitally over the wire. …
Compute
Future Systems: What Will Tomorrow’s Server Look Like?
We can talk about storage and networking as much as we want, and about how the gravity of data bends infrastructure to its needs, but the server – or a collection of them loosely or tightly coupled – is still the real center of the datacenter. …
Compute
The Glass House Is Still Intel’s Piggy Bank
Intel had been warning for several months that revenues for its Data Center Group would decelerate a bit as 2015 wound down, and this has indeed happened. …
Uncategorized
Atos Carves Its Own Path To Exascale With Bull Sequana
Like other makers of supercomputers, the Bull unit of French services and system maker Atos is embracing the new processing technologies coming out of Intel. …