Compute
Avago-Broadcom To Take On Intel In The Datacenter
Might doesn’t make right in this world, but it sure helps. …
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Compute
A Peek Inside Dell’s Private Systems Business
It has been a year and a half since IT supplier Dell went private, and the company is reveling in the fact that competitors can no longer peer into its financials to look for weaknesses and that it can make decisions privately and for the long-term rather than make them publicly and largely on the much shorter-term that all public companies have to align to. …
Compute
Cisco Throws Down The Gauntlet To Open Switches
John Chambers has led networking giant and now systems player Cisco Systems for two decades and is stepping down as CEO to let a new generation of executives run the company that he utterly transformed from a router maker to a broad and very profitable IT supplier. …
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SDN Startup Pushes Switch To Open Hardware
As datacenter operators push for more choices to maximize performance and efficiency, the limited options for network operating systems against preferred hardware platforms are a new target for startups hoping to upend the established network world. …
AI
SGI Awaits UV 3000 And SAP HANA Uplifts
The high performance computing market is about as tough as they come. …
Compute
Google Will Do Anything To Beat Moore’s Law
For most companies in most industries, riding down the Moore’s Law curve to get more compute power for the same money is good enough. …
Cloud
Mellanox Makes Interconnect Waves, Then Surfs On Them
Competing against a giant like Cisco Systems in the switch industry is never an easy task, but Mellanox Technologies has managed to carve out a sizeable niche in the supercomputing arena with its low-latency, high bandwidth InfiniBand and adapters. …
Cloud
Dell Strikes First, Cuts Deep With Tomahawk Switches
The next generation of higher bandwidth and lower cost Ethernet switching for the datacenter is beginning, and privateer Dell is coming out swinging with new open switches based on the “Tomahawk” network ASICs from Broadcom. …
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What’s Inside Intel’s HPC Scalable System Framework?
When we broke the news about the upcoming Intel and Cray contract for the Aurora supercomputer coming to Argonne National Laboratory in 2018, we talked in depth about the unique Knights Hill based architecture of the future machine and referenced a new paradigm for high-end HPC systems that Intel refers to as the HPC scalable system framework. …
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Big Iron Saves The Day For Big Blue
IBM finalized the spinoff of its System x X86 server business to Lenovo Group back in October, and the first quarter of 2015 is the first glimpse that we have of a Big Blue that is focused solely on its Power Systems and System z mainframes. …