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
How Priceline.com Rid In-Memory Cache Of Java Jitters
Priceline.com is one of the early Internet startups, and as such it has built a lot of its own technology for gathering up pricing information on airfares, hotel rooms, ...Full Article
Netflix Speeds Machine Learning With Amazon GPUs
Trying to figure out what 44 million of us in 41 different countries might want to watch next is not just a matter of guessing for video streaming service ...Full Article
Hardware Matters, But Software Also Drives Switch Choices
Breaking into the content caching and delivery market against industry juggernaut Akamai Technologies is about as easy as breaking into the datacenter networking space against Cisco Systems. But, CDN ...Full Article
IBM System x GM Talks About The Future With Lenovo
It has been almost a year since the first rumors surfaced that IBM was looking to sell off its X86 server business and that Lenovo Group emerged as the ...Full Article
Goldman Sachs And Fidelity Bank On Open Compute
What started out as a desire by Facebook to control its own infrastructure five years ago and evolved into the Open Compute Project to open source hardware and datacenter ...Full Article
Intel Uses Moore’s Law And Virtualization To Shrink Its Datacenters
Chip maker Intel operates one of the largest clusters in the world to push Moore’s Law along with its electronic design automation systems, as EnterpriseTech has previously revealed. But ...Full Article
SGI To Paint SAP HANA In-Memory Appliance UltraViolet
Systems maker SGI and application and database software maker SAP are teaming up to create a big, bad system for running SAP's HANA in-memory database. The partnership will, says ...Full Article
Facebook Whips Systems Into Shape With Customized Chef
Like many modern corporations that exist mainly to supply a service over the Internet, Facebook would like to use open source software wherever practical in its infrastructure and with ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article
