Wall Street Wants Tech To Trade Smarter And Faster
The HPC Linux on Wall Street conference was held in New York City this week, and a lot of the talk at the event was on high frequency trading ...Full Article
Oracle Unfolds Sparc Roadmap, Fujitsu Boosts Sparc64 X Clocks
With Intel having refreshed its Xeon E5 and E7 chips recently and IBM getting ready to debut its Power8 chips at the end of the month, Sparc partners Oracle ...Full Article
IBM System/360: The Original Enterprise Tech
Five decades ago, after three years of development in what was one of the most expensive and gutsy moves ever made by a public company, IBM launched the System/360 ...Full Article
Five Years On, UCS Makes Cisco A Systems Player
Five years ago, when Cisco Systems launched its "California" Unified Computing System and entered the server business, that launch was not purposefully timed to come out into the gaping ...Full Article
IBM Chip Suitors Rumored To Narrow To GlobalFoundries
GlobalFoundries has reportedly emerged as the leading candidate to acquire IBM's remaining semiconductor manufacturing facilities. The Wall Street Journal reported on April 3 that Intel and foundry giant Taiwan ...Full Article
The Hyperscale Lessons Of Healthcare.gov
The last six months have been a hair-graying experience for everybody involved in the Healthcare.gov rollout. While it ultimately managed to meet its goals and enroll 7.1 million people, ...Full Article
Contract Manufacturer Jabil Sells Straight Into Hyperscale Datacenters
The hyperscale systems market is getting a new supplier, and this one is a big one with plenty of expertise in manufacturing complex servers and storage and integrating gear ...Full Article
Product Design Streamlined By Nvidia Iray VCA
While the forthcoming “Pascal” GPUs stole most of the show at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose this week, these GPUs won’t be here until 2016. But motorheads ...Full Article
Future Nvidia ‘Pascal’ GPUs Pack 3D Memory, Homegrown Interconnect
Graphics chip and GPU accelerator maker Nvidia is hosting its GPU Technical Conference in its stomping grounds of San Jose, California this week, and company co-founder and CEO Jen-Hsun ...Full Article
IBM Power8 Rollout To Start With Scale Out Clusters
Officially, IBM has said that would be launching its twelve-core Power8 processors in new Power Systems servers and PureSystems converged systems sometime around the middle of the year. But ...Full Article
