Another highlight from ISC17 in Frankfurt HPC Blog On the HPCG side of the house, Purdue/NEU reigned supreme with their score of 1,394.32. They foiled FAU's plans for a HPC benchmark sweep by topping the Germans by a comfortable margin. Beihang and…
Lees meerSysadmin blog In late 2014 I wrote about Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI). I revisited this early last year. This year I expect the first mainstream SDI blocks to emerge, likely under the moniker "Enterprise Cloud". So what does the enterpris…
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Lees meerThe kids are all right HPC Blog Enormous happenings at the ISC17 Student Cluster Competition, where students from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat (FAU) broke the student cluster competition world record for HPL (LINPACK).…
Lees meer'Now you can watch Game of Thrones in peace' The UK government has today launched its £400m Digital Infrastructure Investment Fund, aimed at boosting Blighty's full-fibre infrastructure.…
Lees meerRed Hat abstains but doesn't spoil the party Java 9's Java Platform Modular System, that's caused Oracle so much trouble has passed the community vote and will ship in September.…
Lees meerYour essential guide to latest developments in enterprise-grade silos of bits and bytes We have here another seven days' worth of scintillating storage news that didn't manage to make the daily news cut in this crowded week of June 26.…
Lees meerAnd slashing the share price, too. That also worked After pulling its IPO yesterday, all-flash and hybrid array startup Tintri repriced its shares at $7 to $8, down from the previous $10.50 to $12.50 range.…
Lees meerBut what's a 'true data fabric'? Analysis Data archiver StrongBox has moved into the data management space with StrongLink.…
Lees meerKen 'e' logins Users of Microsoft's Office365 cloud productivity suite struggled to log in today.…
Lees meerIdeal steward would be mediator, soothsayer, guide Two of the UK’s leading academic societies have recommended setting up a data stewardship body to take a “helicopter view” of the whole data governance landscape.…
Lees meerProduct shortage plus high demand equals price rise driven profits rise Memory and flash chip-maker Micron had a massive third quarter as demand growth-driven revenues led to price rise-driven profits.…
Lees meerNone of today's P45 recipients will be directors, say sources Virgin Media is closing 30 shops and cutting 250 jobs, including a number of head office people, as a result of botching its £3bn Project Lightning superfast broadband plan.…
Lees meerClassic or encapsulated? You choose Sysadmin blog Next year will see the 20th anniversary of IEEE 802.1Q, the standard that defines the tagged VLAN for Ethernet networks. Despite it being two decades since modern VLANs started being used in anger a…
Lees meerBattle beyond terrible packaging Sysadmin blog VMware's VRealize suite for management and orchestration recently received its bi-annual refresh for hybrid-cloud wranglers.…
Lees meerHalt and catch fire! Oops, all-flash storage array startup Tintri intended to go public today – during what has turned out to be the busiest week for IPOs in over a year – but abruptly halted its IPO intention late yesterday.…
Lees meerBlames licensing issue with third party vendor Rackspace was hit by a major worldwide outage this morning, which appeared to last for nearly three hours.…
Lees meerData centre control plane platform play by mad hyperconverger Nutanix is making a play to be a data centre control plane platform with a hybrid cloud game plan, buttressed by buddying up with the Google Cloud Platform.…
Lees meerWorse than York, which is 'frankly embarrassing' The capital has "sub-standard" broadband and 4G speeds, causing it to lag behind smaller UK cities such as York, Coventry and Edinburgh - according to a report (PDF) today by the London Assembly.…
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