Open Sourced BIOS Helps Power8 Compete With X86
IBM is deadly serious about fostering an open ecosystem around the Power8 processor and its follow-ons, and has taken the next step in advancing its OpenPower cause by open ...Full Article
BAE Systems Arms Clusters With GPU And Xeon Phi Accelerators
With over 88,000 employees and £18.2 billion in revenues, BAE Systems is one of the largest defense, aerospace, and security contractors in the world and a major supplier of ...Full Article
IBM Commits $3 Billion To Future Chip, Systems Research
If the rumors are right, and they usually are on these sorts of things, then IBM is looking to get out of the chip manufacturing business and has been ...Full Article
Shared Memory Clusters: Of NUMA And Cache Latencies
In the introduction article in this series, I explained that NUMA topology-based SMP systems with two levels to the memory (DRAM) hierarchy have been around and kicking for quite ...Full Article
IBM DOME Microserver Could Appeal To Enterprises
An experimental microserver system developed by IBM in conjunction with the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy has the potential to end up in commercial systems running massively parallel workloads. ...Full Article
Transitions, Competition Curb Datacenter Spending Growth
The prognosticators at Gartner have gazed into their crystal balls and now think that spending on servers, switching, and storage in the datacenter is going to be a bit ...Full Article
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
