A unified, agnostic software environment spanning HPC and AI won't be achieved Register debate Readers have their say HPC10 Dec 2021 | 2
A single HPC-AI software environment is less desirable than you might think Register Debate Every possible thing that can be tuned must be tuned – and tuned well HPC09 Dec 2021 | 1
Juniper open sources Contrail SDN software stack Brings code to market earlier than expected Channel16 Sep 2013 | 1
What's in it for server buyers now that Intel's Xeon E5-2600 v2 is here? More oomph per socket – and maybe just a tiny system price hike Systems13 Sep 2013 | 2
Canonical adds ARM servers to Landscape control freak Shifting server management into 'hyperscale' OSes12 Sep 2013 |
Dell, the man, prevails in quest to wrest Dell, the company, from Wall Street Analysis Private parts are great, but now what? Channel12 Sep 2013 | 7
Unisys cranks Xeon mainframe oomph above legacy CMOS iron Looking ahead to 'Forward' hybrid computing Systems11 Sep 2013 | 7
IBM forges NextScale servers for HPC and hyperscale cheapskates IDF13 As vanity free as Big Blue can get with server clusters HPC10 Sep 2013 |
Intel carves up Xeon E5-2600 v2 chips for two-socket boxes IDF13 Ivy Bridge-EP CPUs slide into Sandy Bridge sockets, chase loads of workloads Systems10 Sep 2013 | 2
Wanna boost app speed? Think of the server, and tune 'er to NUMA HPC on Wall Street And maybe chuck in some flash-based DIMMs, too HPC10 Sep 2013 | 7
Intel shows off 'disaggregated' rack of servers, storage, and networking Breaking up is no longer hard to do Systems04 Sep 2013 | 6
Intel chases network gear and cold storage with Avoton Atoms Chipzilla implies profits from peddling puny processors? Systems04 Sep 2013 | 2
Intel's Avoton Atoms give microservers muscle – and Xeon-class features Now we see if there is a real business here Systems04 Sep 2013 | 10
Intel readies server-grade Atom for microserver ARM wrestling Avoton is what happens when you give Chipzilla time Systems03 Sep 2013 | 13
Fujitsu to push 28 nanometer limits with Sparc64 X+ Hot Chips Drop-in upgrade sports more oomph for Solaris shops Systems29 Aug 2013 | 5
Oracle revs up Sparc M6 chip for seriously big iron Hot Chips Bixby interconnect scales to 96 sockets Systems28 Aug 2013 | 31
Server sales continue decline – time to bargain hard with your supplier Blame weak economies, CPU transitions, virtualization, and the dog who ate your nodes OSes28 Aug 2013 | 3
You won't find this in your phone: A 4GHz 12-core Power8 for badass boxes Hot Chips Not all silicon boffinry is in mobile... And IBM refuses to give in to Intel Systems27 Aug 2013 | 26
HyTrust pockets more dough, ready to expand virty platform coverage Intel Capital and Fortinet kick in $6.5m Virtualization26 Aug 2013 |
VMware goes after biz critical apps with vSphere 5.5 VMworld 2013 Virtual SAN and networks complete grand unified theory of virtualisation - eventually Virtualization26 Aug 2013 | 6
HotLink rolls VMware virty servers out to the Amazon cloud Disaster recovery for the cost of backup Virtualization22 Aug 2013 |
HP hammered in servers, storage, and PCs in fiscal Q3 Not much fun in services, either, but software showed life Systems22 Aug 2013 | 17
HP taps software hot-shot to run enterprise hardware Donatelli gets a 'special assignment' to find new tech On-Prem21 Aug 2013 | 5
Yahoo! Japan drops UPS systems, crams batteries into servers Fujitsu 'prefab data centers' cost less, burn less juice Systems21 Aug 2013 | 10
Dell aligns Foglight management tools with VMware stack Ready for the impending ESXi and vSphere 5.5 Systems20 Aug 2013 |
Nutanix adds memory and flash de-dupe on server-storage halfbloods Pushing into Global 2000 accounts – with a vengeance Systems20 Aug 2013 | 1
Oracle fires up Virtual Compute Appliance for infrastructure clouds One throat to choke – perhaps at a premium SaaS13 Aug 2013 | 8
Rackspace spends big bucks to peddle its cloud vision Striking while the fluffy hybrid iron is hot SaaS08 Aug 2013 |
Unisys to forge new Xeon iron with homegrown s-Par partitioning Mainframe virtualization is better – and more secure – than x86 alternatives Systems08 Aug 2013 |
SGI backs away from public clouds, chases HPC and big data Shrinks losses and boosts sales a bit in fiscal 2013 Systems07 Aug 2013 | 6
Chip makers shine up wafers and foils for 25th Hot Chips jamboree One Power, two Sparcs, lots of X86s, but no ARMs to speak of Personal Tech07 Aug 2013 | 6
Citrix weaves together XenClient hypervisor and XenDesktop VDI stack Adds personal disk for semi-custom virty PCs SaaS07 Aug 2013 | 5
Super Micro closes out record year, eager to cross Ivy Bridge HPC servers and dense storage sales exploding Systems06 Aug 2013 | 1
IBM furloughs hardware workers for a week to cut costs Rometty and Rosamilia tighten others' belts to make the numbers On-Prem06 Aug 2013 | 6
IBM gooses Flex modular systems with Power7+, double-stuffed Xeon E5 Cramming 10 pounds of data center into a 5 pound bag Systems06 Aug 2013 |
IBM opens up Power chips, ARM-style, to take on Chipzilla Google joins consortium along with Nvidia, Mellanox, Tyan OSes06 Aug 2013 | 42
Ex-Cray supercomputer interconnect guru Scott leaves Nvidia for Google Working on new systems at the Chocolate Factory On-Prem05 Aug 2013 | 4
IDC: Sluggish China to pinch global IT spending this year Servers, storage in a worldwide 'cooling phase' On-Prem05 Aug 2013 |
IBM CEO doesn't forget Parris in Power and Mainframe top job lob Rometty appoints GMs after swapping units' heads Systems05 Aug 2013 | 4
US sales rebound for Teradata as customers run out of capacity You can only 'sweat the assets' for about a year Databases02 Aug 2013 | 3
IT gear manufacturers trim payrolls in July But telcos, hosters, and system designers add a lot more workers On-Prem02 Aug 2013 | 3
Did Linux drive supers, and can it drive corporate data centers? Analysis The place where Linus gets his paycheck says the Penguin was driving OSes02 Aug 2013 | 47
Oracle forging Exa server virtualization appliance Taking on Dell, HP, and IBM for infrastructure clouds Systems01 Aug 2013 | 1
Cray posts modest loss, awaits Q4 revenue wave Technical issue with 'Titan' super – now fixed – eats into profits On-Prem01 Aug 2013 |
Microsoft morphs HPC efforts into 'Big Compute' More than traditional supercomputing, and all about big gobs of CPU Systems31 Jul 2013 | 6
Fed watchdogs sniff around IBM's cloud revenue reporting It's official: Big Blue coughed up 'about' $2bn for SoftLayer On-Prem31 Jul 2013 |
Dell committee says 'no way' on takeover vote change Willing to extend the vote deadline on a sweetened deal, however On-Prem31 Jul 2013 | 8
Red ink not as deep as expected for Fujitsu in Q1 Systems integration, networking, and weakened yen save the day On-Prem30 Jul 2013 |
IBM expands Penguin-loving Power server lineup Pre-emptive four-socket Power7+ Linux strike ahead of Intel Xeon E7 assault OSes30 Jul 2013 | 14
Nvidia buys Portland Group for compiler smarts C++ and Fortran to span ARM and GPU ceepie geepies HPC30 Jul 2013 | 7
Intel wants to reconstruct whole data centers with its chips and pipes Analysis The rack is the new server, and the data center is the new rack Systems29 Jul 2013 | 4
Dell takeover latest: Icahn tells Big Mike where to stick his rule rewrite Shareholder opposition to tech titan's privatisation bid 'underestimated' On-Prem29 Jul 2013 | 1
Cray bags $30m to upgrade Edinburgh super to petaflops-class Hector XE6 to be upgraded to Archer XC30 HPC26 Jul 2013 | 5
NEC tag teams with HP on high-end x86 servers Taking an Odyssey to fill a Kraken Systems26 Jul 2013 | 14
Adapteva ships Kickstarted baby supercomputer boards Forget GPUs – use ARMs plus FPGAs plus Epiphany RISCies HPC25 Jul 2013 | 8
Sales deflate and Mellanox swings to a small loss in Q2 A return to a different – and lower – new normal On-Prem25 Jul 2013 |
OpenStack faces 'irrelevance and death' without AWS compatibility Cloudscaling's Bias has no bias about cloud API support SaaS24 Jul 2013 | 5
Nvidia chases defense, intelligence ISVs with GPUs Chewing through signals and video in real-time On-Prem24 Jul 2013 | 2
IBM gooses 'business class' mainframes with z12 engines Something for the little guy with the big budget Systems23 Jul 2013 | 6
Intel lifts veil on future 14nm Xeon, Atom server chips Feeds and speeds on impending "Avoton" Atom Systems23 Jul 2013 | 6