Category Archives: Big Data

Amazon launches new compute intesive C4 Instances

Posted on 13 January 2015 by hpc2go

Amazon announced the availability of C4 instances type, announced since last November. Interestingly, the new C4 instances are based on a Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 (code name Haswell) processor custom optimized for EC2, that runs at a base speed of … Continue reading →

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729 TeraFLOPS cluster on AWS in 60 minutes

Posted on 27 November 2014 by hpc2go

Cycle Computing which specializes in technical and high-performance cloud computing, and Western Digital’s HGST unit ran the largest Fortune 500 production workload and went from zero to 50,000 cores in 23 minutes. The cloud computing run utilized various regions on … Continue reading →

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Memblaze launched PCI-E 4.8 GB server flash accelerator card with a 14 µs latency

Posted on 4 November 2014 by hpc2go

Chinese flash product supplier Memblaze has launched a server flash accelerator card with a 14 microsecond latency and up to 4.8TB capacity. The 14 microsecond latency is very close to the one of RAM and makes it suitable for large … Continue reading →

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Cray launches Urika-XA Extreme Analytics Platform

Posted on 18 October 2014 by hpc2go

Cray announced on Thursday the launch of Urika-XA Extreme Analytics Platform, a turnkey, scale-out, analytics appliance. The Cray Urika-XA system features up to 48 compute nodes with integrated SSDs in a single 42U rack, including Intel® Xeon® processors, an InfiniBand … Continue reading →

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IBM launches Nvidia GPU-accelerated Power8 servers

Posted on 4 October 2014 by hpc2go

IBM announced on Friday its first Power server to include Nvdia Tesla GPUs and the first product to be launched out of the work of the OpenPower Foundation, the consortium formed last year. Built on the OpenPOWER stack, the Power … Continue reading →

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HGST announces 10TB helium drive

Posted on 12 September 2014 by hpc2go

HGST announced on Tuesday a list of innovations that will enrich the company’s portfolio of storage devices. The company announced a list of high capacity HDD models: 8TB Ultrastar He8, the company’s second-generation helium-filled HDD Ultrastar 7K6000 is HGST’s seventh … Continue reading →

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Oracle launched SPARC M7 – 32 cores and 10 bilion transistors

Posted on 21 August 2014 by hpc2go

Oracle announced its Next Generation Processor at the HotChips HC26 conference. The M7 has 32 cores (up from 16-cores in T5 and 12-cores in M6) and is produced with 20 nm technology. It is built using the foundation of the … Continue reading →

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Intel preparing to sell hybrid CPUs

Posted on 20 June 2014 by hpc2go

Intel announced on Wednesday at GigaOm Structure in San Francisco that it is preparing to sell a Xeon E5-FPGA hybrid chip to some of its largest customers. With this new initative, Intel hopes to that some of the world’s largest … Continue reading →

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Dell announces Z9500 fabric switch and SDN controller

Posted on 26 March 2014 by hpc2go

Dell announced this week the Z9500 Ethernet fabric switch wich is a Layer 2/3 switch designed to address 10G/40G aggregation in data centers and enterprise LAN cores. It is based on Broadcom’s Trident II chipset, takes up 3 RUs, and … Continue reading →

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