Liqid unveils single server reference architecture with 16 GPUs
Liqid launched a reference architecture at SC23 to build a composable system with a Dell PowerEdge server fitted with up to 16 Nvidia GPUs.
The UltraStack L40S scheme is based...
Nebulon’s Medusa2 DPU casts snake eyes at enterprise server fleet customers
Nebulon has ported its niche server-management card functionality to an OEM Nvidia BlueField 3-based data processing unit (DPU) and so become a fully-fledged DPU supplier – offloading security, networking,...
Storage news ticker Oct 19
It’s the season for reports as suppliers try to pump up their relevance in a crowded market.
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Alluxio introduced Alluxio Enterprise AI, a high-performance data platform for making data available...
Cerio datacenter composability tech uses decoupled PCIe
Rockport Networks, rebranded as Cerio, is to roll out composable datacenter IT infrastructure that goes beyond a single PCIe domain.
Startup Rockport has developed switchless and flat network technology for...
CERN’s exabyte-plus of data needs exabyte-class EOS filesystem
The reason that CERN, Europe's atom-smashing institution, can store more than an exabyte of online data comes down to its in-house EOS filesystem.
EOS was created by CERN staff in...
NeuroBlade aims to be ‘the Nvidia of data analytics’
Hyperscalers who use SQL processing units (SPUs) to offload x86 CPUs running analytics workloads could get a 100x or more acceleration of their jobs, enabling lower costs and more efficient...
AI: Intelligent data needs intelligent solutions
AI is becoming a major data management challenge for IT and business leaders, according to just published research.
Companies are largely allowing employee use of generative AI, but two-thirds (66...
Project Monterey: No word yet on Broadcom backing
Project Monterey, the joint venture between Dell, VMware, and Nvidia to put vSphere on a DPU (data processing unit) to offload storage and networking tasks from a host x86...
UK startup wins gong for accelerating CPU memory access
UK startup BlueShift Memory has won an FMS 2023 Most Innovative Memory Technology award for its memory accelerating FPGA that it claims offers up to 1,000 times speed up...
Using SSD data placement to lessen SSD write amplification
Analysis: ZNS and FDP are two technologies for placing data more precisely on SSDs to lengthen their working life and improve performance. How do they work? Will both be...
The challenges and opportunities for high-end storage
Interview Rob Young serves as a storage architect at Mainline Information Systems, a Florida-based company specializing in systems design, development, consultancy, and services. With a rich legacy in IBM...
Storage old guard needs to have its cache and eat it too
Comment: Legacy external hardware-based storage suppliers need to adapt to technology threats to their businesses from three incomers – Infinidat, Pure Storage and VAST Data.
Update. Dell PowerMax gen 2...