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Lees meerStudent rack war begins at SC16 HPC Blog The tenth annual Student Cluster Competition kicked off Monday at the SC16 conference here in Salt Lake City, Utah. This is a competition for the ages, with some wildly divergent hardware configurations, mor…
Lees meerNow we're talking: these new babies have 8 vCPUs and 1,536 GPU cores Amazon Web Services' (AWS') desktop-as-a-service “WorkSpaces” just grew up. And got all muscly, too: the cloud colossus has announced a new option to add 1,536 CUDA GPU cores with …
Lees meerAzure Pack gets six more years of active development and support until 2027 Microsoft's revealed that it will keep working on its first Azure-in-a-box product, Azure Pack, until 2022 and support it until 2027.…
Lees meerWindows Server compatibility requirement removal means x86-to-Power port is possible Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has clarified its requirements for a new supercomputer, after an inquiry from The R…
Lees meer'Open-O' is backed by Huawei, China Mobile, Ericsson and Intel, among others If you didn't think the world needed another Software Defined Networking (SDN) project, bad luck: you've got one anyway: it's called Open-O and hopes to put SDN and Network…
Lees meerForward Networks builds a private Matrix for your networks The Stanford University research team that gave the world OpenFlow and VMware's NSX has spawned another interesting startup: Forward Networks de-cloaked on Monday US time with a network mode…
Lees meerDrag-and-drop let users escape their VMs VMware's rushed out a patch for the serious desktop hypervisor bug turned up at the Pwnfest hacker convention.…
Lees meerAnd sticks with its previous backend operator The non-profit that runs all .org domains and provides the bulk of the funding for the Internet Society and Internet Engineering Task Force has just saved itself millions of dollars a year.…
Lees meerHybrid set-up plus Nytro caching software sends small I/Os to SSD Seagate’s ClusterStor 300N storage array for high-performance computing is a hybrid flash/disk array, lifting sequential bandwidth by 33 per cent and small, random I/O by up to 1,200 …
Lees meerSeagate plops BarraCuda inside external backup Sitting in my desk drawer is a 500GB Hitachi Life Studio Mobile. External drive, pathetic capacity. Seagate has a 5TB Backup Plus Portable external drive in the same physical size, with ten times as muc…
Lees meerHitches ride on BT's EE network – but can they do it better than they do broadband? Outage-prone Plusnet is bringing its service to mobile phones, making use of parent company BT's EE network gobble earlier this year.…
Lees meerNew chassis and server nodes use NVMe SSDs, uprated Xeons and DDR4 DIMMs Huawei has a new X6000 model in its FusionServer 2U rack chassis line with server cartridges stacked inside.…
Lees meerFormer IDF fighter pilot aims high as CEO Profile Dani Golan stands on the roof of his Israeli headquarters and points out features of the scenery: an 8,000 year-old ruin here, an ancient trade route there, a modern highway alongside the building, a…
Lees meerClick it and go HPC Blog Eddy Shvartsman, self-described head nerd of the IBM OpenStack Toolkit for OpenPOWER, outlined the newest version of the toolkit at the recent OpenPOWER European Summit in Barcelona.…
Lees meerAaaS steps out of academia into the big bad world Interview Arkivum has gained £3m funding after appointing a new CEO. The firm is in the AaaS business, archiving as a service. When Guy Yaniv became CEO in June, the previous grand fromage, Jim Cook…
Lees meer'In the long run, it will be more efficient, consistent, and reliable'. And it's cheaper, too Git repository manager and developer playground GitLab has decided it is time to quit the cloud, joining Dropbox in concluding that at a certain scale the …
Lees meerProcessors are going to be everywhere, so they shouldn't be energy hogs Europe is trying to plant a flag in future chip development, slinging money towards low-power server silicon.…
Lees meerReplacement for CSIRO's Bragg is required to hit a petaflop for just AU$4m Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has issued a (regwalled) tender for a new petaflop-class supercomputer that can run either x8…
Lees meerEngineers went head down, bum up but zipped lips gave users the … heebie jeebies A four-hour outage of Google's BigQuery enterprise data warehouse has taught the cloud aspirant two harsh lessons: its cloud doesn't always scale as well as it would li…
Lees meerDestination unreachable plus port unreachable equals router unreachable A code artefact in a number of popular firewalls means they can be crashed by a mere crafted ping.…
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