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Timothy Prickett Morgan

Intel to Pull Networking Into Xeon and Xeon Phi Chips
November 25th, 2013 (2)
Among other things, Moore's Law allows for the successive integration of system components onto processors. Various levels of cache memory as well as main memory controllers and peripheral controllers have been pulled onto most current CPUs, and the next ...

3M and Allied Control Cool Clusters with Novec Bubble Bath
November 24th, 2013 (1)
One of the more interesting demonstrations at the SC13 supercomputing conference last week in Denver was a Xeon E5 server dunked in a tank of Novec fire suppressant fluid. The server was not on fire, but the Novec fluid, ...

NetApp Says Flash Is All About Predictable Performance
November 23rd, 2013 Comments Off on NetApp Says Flash Is All About Predictable Performance
Disk and flash array maker NetApp showed off a refresh of its E-Series machines at the SC13 supercomputing conference last week. The E-Series are not the biggest, baddest arrays that NetApp sells, but they pack plenty of performance, particularly ...

Red Hat Linux Adds Time Stamp, NVM, and Virtual Hot Plug
November 21st, 2013 Comments Off on Red Hat Linux Adds Time Stamp, NVM, and Virtual Hot Plug
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is by far the dominant variant of commercially supported Linux in the enterprise, and based on anecdotal evidence has an even larger share of Linux installations at financial services firms. With Enterprise Linux 6.5, its ...

Inside Intel’s 610K Core EDA System
November 19th, 2013 Comments Off on Inside Intel’s 610K Core EDA System
Intel is the world’s largest chip maker and is also the dominant supplier of processors for servers. So it might seem that Intel would have an unlimited supply of cheap processing capacity to design and make its Atom, Core, ...

Microsoft to Drive RDMA Into Datacenters and Clouds
November 18th, 2013 Comments Off on Microsoft to Drive RDMA Into Datacenters and Clouds
Software giant Microsoft has been using InfiniBand networking technology in its Azure cloud for a few years now, and has also been working with Mellanox Technologies to tune up Windows Server 2012 so it can take advantage of the ...

IBM Embraces Nvidia GPUs for Acceleration
November 18th, 2013 Comments Off on IBM Embraces Nvidia GPUs for Acceleration
IBM wants its Power Systems platforms to continue to thrive in the datacenter, and it knows it has to do everything it can to give the Power family of processors all of the advantages that an X86 chip has. ...

Hedge Fund Scraps DIY Lustre Cluster for Terascala
November 18th, 2013 Comments Off on Hedge Fund Scraps DIY Lustre Cluster for Terascala
When high performance is needed, some enterprises have no choice but to get out there on the bleeding edge and experiment with new technology and put it into production use. This is precisely the situation that Tradeworx, a hedge ...

Fujitsu Demos Silicon Photonics Server Links
November 14th, 2013 Comments Off on Fujitsu Demos Silicon Photonics Server Links
There is a growing consensus among system makers, driven in large part by work done by Intel and members of the Open Compute Project founded by Facebook, that the components on a system should be broken apart and linked ...

Cisco Converged System Sales Still Booming
November 14th, 2013 Comments Off on Cisco Converged System Sales Still Booming
Cisco Systems is another in a line of IT giants that are reporting sales that are lower than expected and a consequential impact to the bottom line in its most recent financial results. While Cisco is under pressure in ...
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