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
IBM Systems Biz Stabilizes In Q2
The systems business at IBM started to stabilize in the second quarter, with X86 servers and mainframes showing improvements and entry Power Systems machines based on the company’s Power8 ...Full Article
Oracle Boosts Exadata Database Clusters With Custom Xeon E7s
For some workloads, a big eight-socket server node with a hefty memory footprint is going to support a database workload better than four two-socket nodes in a database cluster, ...Full Article
Convey-Dell FPGA Appliance Accelerates Hyperscale Image Resizing
Convey Computer, a maker of hybrid supercomputers based on a mix of X86 processors and field programmable gate array (FPGA) chips, is teaming up with Dell's Data Center Solutions ...Full Article
Early Haswell Xeon Buyers Push Intel Datacenter Biz
For the past several Xeon E5 processor launch cycles, customers in the cloud and supercomputing spaces get their hands on the chips and put them into production systems well ...Full Article
