Inside Intel’s 610K Core EDA System
Intel is the world’s largest chip maker and is also the dominant supplier of processors for servers. So it might seem that Intel would have an unlimited supply of ...Full Article
IBM Embraces Nvidia GPUs for Acceleration
IBM wants its Power Systems platforms to continue to thrive in the datacenter, and it knows it has to do everything it can to give the Power family of ...Full Article
Fujitsu Demos Silicon Photonics Server Links
There is a growing consensus among system makers, driven in large part by work done by Intel and members of the Open Compute Project founded by Facebook, that the ...Full Article
Invisible OpenCL and APU Chips Drive Acceleration
AMD has some stiff competition in the server space. The company thinks that the combination of CPUs and GPUs together, what it calls Accelerated Processing Units (APU), has a ...Full Article
Nokia Dev Cloud Will Swell to 100K Cores
Be careful about giving easy access to computing. You may end up with far more demand than you planned. This is precisely the position that the IT department supporting ...Full Article
Cluster Sizes Reveal Hadoop Maturity Curve
If you want to get a rough sense of how mature a Hadoop installation is, all you need to do is count the server nodes. The largest Hadoop clusters ...Full Article
LinkedIn Copes with Server Explosion with Revved Up CFEngine
The dream of every Internet startup is for an idea to take off and go mainstream. This is precisely the nightmare of every system administrator that works at these ...Full Article
HP to Port NonStop Clusters from Itanium to Xeon
Hewlett-Packard is in the process of porting its NonStop fault tolerant database clusters to Intel's Xeon processors after an eight-year run on the Itanium chip. The company is also ...Full Article
Calxeda Launches Midway ARM Server Chips, Extends Roadmap
ARM server chip supplier Calxeda is just about to ship its second generation of EnergyCore processors for hyperscale systems and most of its competitors are still working on their ...Full Article
BP Fires Up 2.2 Petaflops Cluster for Oil Exploration
There is an arms race in the oil and gas industry, and the weapon of choice is a server cluster. Energy industry giant BP has opened the doors on ...Full Article
