Shared Memory Clusters 101
Shared memory clusters are one of those technologies that is at the same time just evolutionary, but also – because of what it will become – potentially revolutionary. Although ...Full Article
Oracle Revs Virtual Compute Appliance
The engineered systems that Oracle is best known for are used to accelerate databases and middleware, but the company also peddles machines that are preconfigured to run basic cloud ...Full Article
Russia Launches ARM Chip Effort To End X86 Dependence
The Russian government is reportedly preparing to say "nyet" to American-made microprocessors, planning instead to replace Intel and AMD chips with a homegrown CPU based on an alternative architecture ...Full Article
Integrated Systems Rankings Led by VCE, Cisco, Oracle
An emerging enterprise category of integrated systems that combine servers, storage and network infrastructure is led by the converged infrastructure alliance VCE, according to the latest in a series ...Full Article
Applied Micro X-Gene ARM Waves The 64-Bit Banner
A few years back, Intel made its foray into the networking arena with its Xeon and Atom processors, and several makers of specialized chips for networking are fighting back ...Full Article
Xeon Phi To Get 3X Speed Bump, Omni Scale Fabric
Intel is showing off a few more of the feeds and speeds of its forthcoming "Knights Landing" Xeon Phi chips and talking a bit about the future network fabric ...Full Article
InkaBinka Moves From Cloud To Moonshot For Launch
The premise behind a new startup called InkaBinka, which launched this month and which is only a year old, is that none of us have the time to keep ...Full Article
Cloud, Engineered Systems Offset Oracle Software Slump
The cloud business at Oracle is now almost as large as the engineered systems business that underpins it, and both are growing considerably faster than the rest of the ...Full Article
Intel Mates FPGA With Future Xeon Server Chip
Intel is taking field programmable gate arrays seriously as a means of accelerating applications and has crafted a hybrid chip that marries an FPGA to a Xeon E5 processor ...Full Article
Airstone Clusters Drive Down Latency With Custom Network
Some hardware and software engineers at a startup called Airstone Labs, who have built scale-out systems for Google, among other places, want to build a better cluster. And as ...Full Article
