If you think that the giants of the hyperscale and cloud world have a hankering for minimalist, custom servers forged by original design manufacturers, you should see the appetites they have for their storage gear–it is a lot larger perhaps than many realize. …
When it comes to chip companies that have claimed a stake in the future of high performance computing, there used to be more competition. …
The first of the server processors based on Intel’s “Broadwell” cores and using its 14 nanometer chip making processes comes to market today. …
The first Xeon processor aimed at datacenter workloads that is based on Intel’s “Broadwell” core has been launched. …
When the OpenPower Foundation was formed a year and a half ago, IBM had a number of reasons, driven by enlightened self-interest, for fostering a partnerships with Google, Nvidia, Mellanox Technologies, and Tyan. …
Sometimes it takes a bit of tweaking to make a technology that is created for supercomputing centers more suitable for high-end enterprise customers, even sophisticated ones that are not afraid to take risks and try something different. …
When Lenovo Group bought the System x division from IBM last fall, it got a lot more than a business that sells rack and tower servers based on X86 processors. …
DNA sequencing has been driving unprecedented discoveries in the life sciences since the emergence of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies ten years ago. …
Server maker Lenovo might have just shelled out billions of dollars to acquire IBM’s System x X86 server business, but don’t be confused. …
In an ideal world, you would not buy a server unless you knew how all of the components that comprise it would work together for several years supporting your specific applications. …
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