Arista Champions New 100GbE Optical Spec, Files To Go Public
Frustrated by the limitations of the current crop of transceivers that have been approved by the IEEE and adopted by the industry, Arista Networks is teaming up with Intel ...Full Article
IBM Juices Hadoop With Java On Tesla GPUs
Commercial applications written in Java have plenty of parallel tasks that can be accelerated through the use of GPU coprocessors. IBM is very keen on leveraging the combination of ...Full Article
Telco Calls On GPU-Native SQream SQL Database
Using GPUs to accelerate processing started in earnest six years ago with floating point number crunching in the supercomputing space, but now it is moving into database processing and ...Full Article
Costs Come Down So Equinix Weaves 100GbE Switches Into Datacenters
Everybody wants the fastest network they can get, but speed increases or latency reductions are usually not immediately affordable to all but the extreme cases. It takes time for ...Full Article
Flash Spreads Around The System, Accelerating As It Goes
UlltraDIMM memory channel storage, which puts flash memory in the same slots as main memory in servers, is starting to ship from IBM, and its advent has a lot ...Full Article
Facebook Open Sources Datacenter Efficiency Tracking Tools
Companies that operate hyperscale datacenters have gone to great lengths to boost efficiency, and to show their commitment to green computing some of these cloud giants are sharing their ...Full Article
Facebook Uses Ikea Modular Approach In Second Swedish Datacenter
Facebook announced it will be using new lean manufacturing concepts, developed as part of the Open Compute Project (OCP), for the construction of a second building at its existing ...Full Article
Dell Forges Custom G5 Racks For Hyperscale Shops
As funny as it sounds, the standard computing rack is a problem in the datacenter. The physical layout of datacenters is pegged to the dimensions, weight, power draw, and ...Full Article
Adaptive Computing Spans The DigitalGlobe
Given a choice between developing their own cluster and data management software or buying it off the shelf from third parties, most large enterprises would prefer to buy rather ...Full Article
Chilly UK Weather Cools Latest Rackspace Datacenter
Rackspace recently broke ground on a 130,000 square foot, 10 megawatt datacenter, in the West Sussex region of England, south of London. The US-based cloud and hosting provider together ...Full Article
