Oracle Cranks Up The Cores To 32 With Sparc M7 Chip
Say what you will about Oracle co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison, but when the software giant bought Sun Microsystems more than four years ago, for $7.4 billion, he said ...Full Article
Applied Micro Plots Out X-Gene ARM Server Future
At the Hot Chips 26 conference being hosted in Silicon Valley this week, upstart ARM server chip maker Applied Micro is presenting details on its roadmap for its X-Gene ...Full Article
AMD Details “Seattle” ARM Server Chip
The annual Hot Chips conference is underway this week in Silicon Valley, and there is not much on the enterprise front on day one. Japanese supercomputer makers NEC and ...Full Article
Dell Sees Server Uptick, Awaits Demand For ARM
Dell is no longer a public company, so we can't look at its quarterly financial results to get a sense of how its various business units are doing. But, ...Full Article
IBM Chip Talks Stall as Focus Shifts to R&D
IBM Microelectronics' fire sale of its flagging semiconductor unit has yet hit another snag after talks between the company and potential suitor Globalfoundries reportedly broke down over how much ...Full Article
The Beginnings Of Hyperscale At Google
Fifteen years ago, Google did what every startup on the Internet dreams of: It closed its first round of venture funding, put out its first press release, and took ...Full Article
MLB Goes Virtual As Stat Apps Enter The Lineup
The cloud and networking technology behind the business of Major League Baseball is increasingly based on virtualization that is replacing the monolithic, physical infrastructure built up over the last ...Full Article
Shared Memory Clusters: Observations On Processor Virtualization
In the preceding articles on Shared Memory Clusters, I have been making a distinction between truly distributed systems – those that must explicitly copy data between systems – and ...Full Article
IBM Forging Bigger Power8 Systems, Adding FPGA Acceleration
IBM launched its first servers based on the Power8 processors back in April, and the initial machines were aimed at scale-out clusters as well as at customers needing a ...Full Article
Shared Memory Clusters: Observations On Capacity And Response Time
Our marketing friends correctly observe that Shared-Memory Clusters (SMCs) can provide scads of processors and buckets full of memory, all the while with the programming and often performance efficiency ...Full Article
