Jeff Burt

Intel is continuing to fight the $1.4 billion fine levied seven years ago by European regulators who said the giant chip maker used its dominant position in the market to illegally try to keep PC makers from using processors from rival Advanced Micro Devices. Two years after the company lost its bid in the European […]

Pica8 is enhancing its white-box network operating system with support for fast 25/50/100 Gigabit Ethernet networking. Company officials on June 21 unveiled PicOS 2.7.1, which includes the support for the fast Ethernet switching for switches that are powered by Cavium’s XPliant and Broadcom’s Tomahawk switches ASICs. Pica8 demonstrated the capabilities during the SC 15 supercomputing […]

Fujitsu will ditch SPARC chips for the ARM architecture for the next generation of the K supercomputer that currently is the fifth-fastest system in the world. At the ISC High Performance 2016 supercomputing show this week in Frankfurt, Germany, Fujitsu officials said the successor to the current K computer (pictured), which is housed at the […]

Nutanix, which has made its name in providing software for the growing hyperconverged infrastructure market, is looking to take a larger role in the data center. At the company’s .NEXT Conference 2016 June 21 in Las Vegas, Nutanix officials announced additions to its offerings that are designed to enable enterprises to build out data center […]

Intel officials for months have been talking about its many-core Xeon Phi “Knights Landing” processor, a chip that the company is positioning to compete with GPU accelerators such as Nvidia’s Tesla products in high-performance computing environments and such emerging markets as machine learning. Intel announced at the ISC High Performance 2016 supercomputing show June 20 […]

Dell is selling its software business to two private equity firms as the company continues to shed assets ahead of its massive $67 billion acquisition of data storage market leader EMC. Officials with Francisco Partners and Elliott Management on June 20 confirmed they are buying Dell’s Software Group for an unspecified amount, though the New […]

China is now the world’s dominant player in the global supercomputing space. The country kept its position atop the Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers with a new system that not only is markedly faster and more efficient than the previous No. 1 supercomputer—also from China—but also is powered by processors designed and manufactured […]

Nvidia officials are adding to the company’s portfolio of graphics processors aimed at emerging markets like deep learning, artificial intelligence and computer vision with a new version of its powerful Tesla P100 GPU. At Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference in April, CEO Jen-Hsun Huang introduced the Tesla P100, a GPU for data centers built on the […]

Liquid-cooling technologies for data center systems will be on display during this week’s International Supercomputing show. Officials with Asetek and CoolIT Systems have said both companies will put new products on display and demonstrate their offerings with OEM partners like Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Lenovo, Huawei Technologies, Fujitsu and Nvidia. At the show, which […]

The Internet was not made for today’s world. The networking infrastructure that underpins the Internet in many ways isn’t much different than it was more than two decades ago, and the packet-processing functionality that networks have been designed for isn’t working as well in a time of cloud computing and mobility, with a broad range […]