Interconnect is an integral part of any scale-out solutions. The question often asked is something like "which interconnect should I use for my next scale-out project?" Well, a simple answer is "it depends". For many applications in the high performance computing (HPC) area, their...
Until a couple of years ago, when we referred to performance measurement of an application, we meant the amount of time that it took the job to run vs. the specific resources it used - number of cores, number of servers if you are using a cluster, the specific characteristics of the server cores and...
Now that we have configured the hardware components and firmware settings in a known and hopefully optimum way, it is time to run the 1 st performance test. Personally, I like to run the memory bandwidth benchmark lmbench first, since there is a lot to learn from it. This benchmark computes the time...
The HP POD had a very busy week indeed... and we had some great photos taken while it was in the Silicon Valley. Here are a few of those pics - thank you for participating! For more information on the HP POD, go to: www.hp.com/go/pod . Look for the HP POD this Fall at an industry event near you! The...
Congratulations to Kenn Durrence, who was drawn as the winner of our "Spot the POD" Drawing. Kenn captured the HP POD in San Jose. Congratulations, Kenn! Please email aimee.schoaf@hp.com with your contact information! Thank you all for participating in this promotion - watch for the HP POD...
The "Spot the POD" Drawing is now closed. We will be randomly choosing one winner from the eligible entries on Friday, July 18, 2008. Here are some of the photos posted as the POD made its journey through Silicon Valley! Thank you all for participating! For more information on the HP POD, go...
By Christian Post "Nascent: coming or recently having come into existence." It would be a short argument to suggest that containerized datacenters are nascent. They have been developed and deployed for years to serve mobile, military, and disaster response needs. Yet we are seeing a ground...