Fighting for the ‘Cool Kids’: OpenCAPI Takes on PCIe, Vows 10X Improvement
With two major announcements this week, IBM continues to drive the build-out of its advanced scale ecosystem, aligning industry heavies to jointly develop open technologies that tackle the perennial ...Full Article
AWS, VMware Scale the Hybrid Cloud
The hybrid cloud market just got far more competitive with an alliance between the leading public cloud vendor and an entrenched datacenter supplier. Along with preserving existing datacenter investments, ...Full Article
Move It: Gen-Z Consortium Vows New Semantic Fabric for Data Movement at Scale
Industry powerhouses have joined forces to address an issue that has confounded system architects since the advent of multi-core computing, one that has gained in urgency with the emergence ...Full Article
What I Saw at the Enterprise IT Revolution: Radical Analytics Chic
If "a revolution is an idea that has found its bayonets" (Napoleon) then data analytics is the bayonet driving a revolution now underway in enterprise IT. It’s a revolution ...Full Article
Power8 with NVLink Coming to the Nimbix Cloud
Starting later this month, HPC professionals and data scientists wishing to try out NVLink’d Nvidia Pascal P100 GPUs won’t have to spend upwards of $100,000 on NVIDIA’s DGX-1 server ...Full Article
BSC Presents Plan to Energize Europe’s Big Data Efforts
Researchers from the Barcelona Supercomputer Center today presented the big data roadmap commissioned by the EU as part of the RETHINK big project intended to identify technology goals, obstacles ...Full Article
So Long Single-Protocol Storage Network; Hello Intelligent Storage Infrastructure
IT departments everywhere are looking for new ways to improve the business impact of their storage networks — such as adopting cloud or hyper-converged architectures. This has been translated ...Full Article
Microsoft Eyes AI Supercomputer on Azure
Microsoft is jumping on the artificial intelligence bandwagon with the formation of a new research group that will seek to make the technology more accessible via its Azure cloud ...Full Article
AWS Beats Azure to K80 General Availability
Amazon Web Services has seeded its cloud with Nvidia Tesla K80 GPUs to meet the growing demand for accelerated computing across an increasingly-diverse range of workloads. The P2 instance family ...Full Article
