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Maximizing GPU Performance Amidst Today’s Increasing Shortages
The default method for accelerating Deep Learning projects is increasing the size of a GPU cluster. However, the cost is increasingly prohibitive. According to Andreessen Horowitz, many companies investing in ...Full Article
Gauging Resource Management as Hadoop Clusters Grow
Among the challenges to broader adoption of Hadoop in the enterprise are supporting multiple users and departments on a single cluster along with leveraging systems handling diverse workloads. Other ...Full Article
Mesosphere Wants To Run Clusters At The Global 2000
A few years back, search engine giant Google invented a term called warehouse-scale computing to talk about the hyperscale that it operates its applications within. That term never really ...Full Article
Taking The Omni-Path To Cluster Scaling
Intel has some impressive networking assets that it has acquired in the past several years, and the company has made no secret that it wants its chips to be ...Full Article
Heftier Gluster Storage Helps Red Hat Tackle Big Data
Just because Red Hat bought Inktank for its Ceph clustered object storage software does not mean it has forgotten about its commercial variant of the Gluster clustered file system, ...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
Cray CS-Storm Packs A Serious GPU Punch
GPU accelerators for technical workloads are apparently like potato chips. You can’t have just one, or even two. That is why Cray has forged a new rack-based variant of ...Full Article
Google, Mesosphere Make A Google Clone For The Masses
Creating Google-like hyperscale infrastructure is going to be a whole lot easier thanks to a development partnership between the search engine giant and Mesosphere, an upstart application platform and ...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
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
