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Video: The Disaggregated Data Center

One of the key misconceptions about composable disaggregated infrastructure (CDI) is that there’s an inherent performance trade-off. While some argue that the performance of (...)

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Video: The Disaggregated Data Center

One of the key misconceptions about composable disaggregated infrastructure (CDI) is that there’s an inherent performance trade-off. While some argue that the performance of (...)

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Unlocking AI Innovation Requires Agile Infrastructure

The AI stress test is revealing cracks in a converged system architecture that traps expensive compute resources. That's why AI is driving the next (...)

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800G or bust? Why more bandwidth isn’t the answer

The true measure of better network performance is not how many gigabits you have, but how you use them. (...)

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Durham University Explores a Better Way to Chart the Cosmos

At Durham University’s Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC) in the UK, COSMA supercomputers run cosmological simulations from the Big Bang forward, generating some 130 (...)

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McMaster University Unlocks the Mysteries of Fracture

12-node cluster delivers top performance at the right scale. (...)

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The future of high-performance data centers is here

In today’s data centers, traditional networks are now the single biggest bottleneck, throttling applications, driving up costs and creating unsustainable environmental impacts. With layers (...)

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Interconnect for Performance-Intensive Computing

Interconnect for Performance-Intensive Computing – No longer a Hobson’s Choice

In many areas, performance-intensive computing has seen considerable innovation over the past few decades. Compute central processing units (CPUs) have evolved from single processors (...)

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Cybersecurity: Can the network become the first line of defence?

Applying security controls to research systems requires a careful balance to manage cyber risks without slowing the pace of innovation. (...)

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Video: 5 Minutes with Dr. Alastair Basden, Durham University

Dr. Basden is the technical manager for the COSMA High Performance Computing system at Durham University in the UK. He sat down with us (...)

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The Replacement for [Networking] Displacement

For decades, the adage “There’s no replacement for displacement” was considered dogma amongst the go-fast automotive gear-heads crowd. The larger your cylinders, the bigger (...)

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Top 10 Reasons to Choose a Rockport Switchless Network over High Performance InfiniBand or Ethernet

Rockport has redefined networking for performance-intensive computing, with a new architecture that enables better performance and economics to address decades-old industry challenges. Here are (...)

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Why Rockport, why now? An industry poised for change

I’ve just accepted the role of Co-CEO at Rockport, and those that know me may be asking why. After a more than 30-year career, and the successful acquisition (...)

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