Advanced Computing in the Age of AI | Friday, March 29, 2024

IBM Systems Biz Stabilizes In Q2

The systems business at IBM started to stabilize in the second quarter, with X86 servers and mainframes showing improvements and entry Power Systems machines based on the company’s Power8 ...Full Article

Oracle Boosts Exadata Database Clusters With Custom Xeon E7s

For some workloads, a big eight-socket server node with a hefty memory footprint is going to support a database workload better than four two-socket nodes in a database cluster, ...Full Article

Convey-Dell FPGA Appliance Accelerates Hyperscale Image Resizing

Convey Computer, a maker of hybrid supercomputers based on a mix of X86 processors and field programmable gate array (FPGA) chips, is teaming up with Dell's Data Center Solutions ...Full Article

Early Haswell Xeon Buyers Push Intel Datacenter Biz

For the past several Xeon E5 processor launch cycles, customers in the cloud and supercomputing spaces get their hands on the chips and put them into production systems well ...Full Article

Open Sourced BIOS Helps Power8 Compete With X86

IBM is deadly serious about fostering an open ecosystem around the Power8 processor and its follow-ons, and has taken the next step in advancing its OpenPower cause by open ...Full Article

BAE Systems Arms Clusters With GPU And Xeon Phi Accelerators

With over 88,000 employees and £18.2 billion in revenues, BAE Systems is one of the largest defense, aerospace, and security contractors in the world and a major supplier of ...Full Article

IBM Commits $3 Billion To Future Chip, Systems Research

If the rumors are right, and they usually are on these sorts of things, then IBM is looking to get out of the chip manufacturing business and has been ...Full Article

Shared Memory Clusters: Of NUMA And Cache Latencies

In the introduction article in this series, I explained that NUMA topology-based SMP systems with two levels to the memory (DRAM) hierarchy have been around and kicking for quite ...Full Article

IBM DOME Microserver Could Appeal To Enterprises

An experimental microserver system developed by IBM in conjunction with the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy has the potential to end up in commercial systems running massively parallel workloads. ...Full Article

Transitions, Competition Curb Datacenter Spending Growth

The prognosticators at Gartner have gazed into their crystal balls and now think that spending on servers, switching, and storage in the datacenter is going to be a bit ...Full Article
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