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Thinking About Intel Rack-Scale Architecture

Scott Lowe

You may have heard of Intel Rack-Scale Architecture (RSA), a new approach to designing data center hardware. Why should they buy this architecture instead of just buying servers? shelves of CPUs, memory, and storage); it could be done with standard 1U/2U rack-mount servers. What’s the benefit to consumers?

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Seagate has shipped over 10 Million storage HHDD’s, is that a lot?

Storage IO Blog

This means that the drives should be transparent to the operating systems or hypervisors on servers or storage controllers without need for special adapters, controller cards or drivers.

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The Ascent of Object Storage

Cloud Musings

Over the past few years, the data storage market has changed radically. The traditional hierarchy of directories, sub-directories, and files referred to as file storage has given way to object storage , individual storage objects. User expectation of data usage drives file storage repository design.

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Why eBPF is critical and how it’s getting better

Network World

eBPF is amazing at enabling rapid innovation for infrastructure and for tooling at the operating system level,” Thomas Graf, co-founder and CTO of Isovalent, said during his keynote. The challenge with that approach is that eventually it can’t scale because there is just far too much data and associated storage requirements.

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Fed Forum 2013 Videos and Briefings Posted

CTOvision

Lloyd underscored the importance of improving IT architecture to support today’s challenges and discussed a vision for data center networking. It was great learning that early in his career he was a technologist supporting the US Navy, supporting R&D and operations and making advances in capabilities from drones to helicopters.

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Parallel Processing and Unstructured Data Transforms Storage

Cloud Musings

(This post originally appeared on Direct2Dell, The Official Dell Corporate Blog) Enterprise storage is trending away from traditional, enterprise managed network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SAN) towards a more complex environment that includes software-defined and cloud-based solutions.

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Oak Ridge seeks next-level supercomputer to blow away Frontier

Network World

In addition, according to the RFP, it must support everything from small workloads using 20% of the nodes to those that require the entire system. The benchmark website contains output results from existing supercomputers, including Frontier, to “assist the Offeror in estimating the benchmark results on the proposed OLCF-6 system.”

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