NUMA
SGI Reveals NUMAlink 7, Plans For Data-Intensive Computing
SGI started out as a workstation maker, expanded into supercomputing, and merged with an innovator in hyperscale datacenter systems. The company knows the kinds of systems that governments, research ...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
Intel Aims Xeon E7 v2 At Big Memory Workloads
Big companies support thousands of users on their applications, they have big databases behind them, and they therefore need big iron. For those who want to migrate off of ...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
IBM Goes Modular And Flashy With X6 Systems
IBM, like other system makers, is eager to start selling new machines based on Intel’s forthcoming “Ivy Bridge-EX” Xeon E7 v2 processors. So eager, in fact, that it is ...Full Article
IBM Appliances Ease Deployment of DB2 BLU Analytics
Back in April, IBM put out a tech preview of its BLU Acceleration in-memory feature for its DB2 database. Now the software is shipping, and the company is packaging ...Full Article
IBM Slashes Hardware Prices to Push Linux on Power
As it had been hinting to EnterpriseTech that it would do, IBM has taken a page out of its mainframe playbook and is offering cut-throat prices on processing capacity and ...Full Article
Unisys Looks Ahead with Forward Xeon-InfiniBand Clusters
What do you get when you mix Xeon servers, InfiniBand switching, and virtualization and workload management software from a venerable mainframe maker? You get the new Forward systems from ...Full Article
Big Blue Wants Your Big Linux Apps On Power
Hot on the heels of its $1 billion investment to foster the porting of applications, modern systems software, and development tools to Linux running on its Power processors, IBM ...Full Article
Oracle Stresses System Performance and Scalability
As Oracle Team USA's dramatic come-from-behind win over Emirates Team New Zealand in the America's Cup yacht race aptly demonstrates, Oracle's co-founder and CEO, Larry Ellison, believes in extreme ...Full Article
