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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
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
Airstone Clusters Drive Down Latency With Custom Network
Some hardware and software engineers at a startup called Airstone Labs, who have built scale-out systems for Google, among other places, want to build a better cluster. And as ...Full Article
Best Practices in Datacenter Cooling sponsored content by Cray
The High Performance Computing Collaboratory (HPC²) at Mississippi State University is boosting its high-performance computing capabilities with the installation of “Shadow,” a Cray® CS300-LC™ liquid-cooled cluster supercomputer. The HPC² ...Full Article
PCI Express Switching Takes On Ethernet, InfiniBand
Ethernet, InfiniBand, and the handful of high-speed, low-latency interconnects that have been designed for supercomputers and large shared memory systems are going to soon have a new rival: PCI-Express ...Full Article
Oil Explorer Strikes Black Gold With 20 PB Data Reservoir
The conventional wisdom at large enterprises that deal with truly enormous datasets is that they can't keep it all online. At some point, because of the high cost of ...Full Article
Shared Memory Clusters Accelerate Databases
In-memory databases are going mainstream to accelerate analytics, and if the success of SAP's HANA in-memory database is any guide, then it looks like companies will be looking at ...Full Article
The Math On Big NUMA Versus Clusters
Even if you are not thinking of buying a big Sparc/Solaris server, some new math by Oracle might get you to thinking about shared memory machines as opposed to ...Full Article
Cluster Sizes Reveal Hadoop Maturity Curve
If you want to get a rough sense of how mature a Hadoop installation is, all you need to do is count the server nodes. The largest Hadoop clusters ...Full Article
BP Fires Up 2.2 Petaflops Cluster for Oil Exploration
There is an arms race in the oil and gas industry, and the weapon of choice is a server cluster. Energy industry giant BP has opened the doors on ...Full Article
