Future Cray Systems To Unite Analytics And Simulation
Big data and analytics are not a threat to Cray. They are an opportunity. And importantly, the increasingly intertwined workloads of modeling, simulation, and analytics play to the strengths ...Full Article
Shared Memory Clusters: Observations On Persistent Memory
The other SMC articles in this series have referred to a notion called "memory." These articles have often intentionally not said so, but I have left the impression that ...Full Article
Intel Wants To Reshape Datacenters With Xeon E5
Intel rolled out its "Haswell" generation of Xeon E5-2600 processors at its developers' forum by positioning the third version of the chip as the engine that would help in ...Full Article
Intel Ups Performance Ante With ‘Haswell’ Xeon E5 Chips
Any company that bought racks of servers within the past six months is probably going to be annoyed this week. The drumbeat of Moore's Law continues apace with the ...Full Article
Modular Machines Take A Bite Out Of Racks And Blades
Enterprises and some supercomputing centers took a shining to blade servers a decade ago and these converged platforms, which pack servers, storage, and switching into a single box with ...Full Article
Cisco Gets The Lead Out With ‘Fast IT’
Cisco Systems wants to ride the data-driven wave dubbed the Internet of Everything to take its Unified Computing System architecture from the datacenter to the networked sensors that the ...Full Article
Cisco Targets Hyperscale With Modular UCS Iron
Five years ago, Cisco Systems got out in front of the pack with converged server and switching and a unified Ethernet fabric for server and storage traffic in its ...Full Article
How Microsoft Is Using FPGAs To Speed Up Bing Search
Microsoft has dug in for a long and perhaps uphill battle with search engine juggernaut Google, which has three times the reach in search. That means Microsoft has to ...Full Article
Weak Growth For Servers In Q2, But Still Growth
The global economy seems to be improving, despite political unrest in various parts of the globe, and the server market managed to get some growth in both revenues and ...Full Article
Server Makers Jockey For “Haswell” Xeon Pole Position
With VMware's VMworld extravaganza winding down, the talk will now shift from virtual servers to physical ones. Everyone expects for Intel to launch its next-generation "Haswell" Xeon E5 processors ...Full Article
