Tag Archive for high-performance computing

Western Digital enters in-memory computing segment with software-defined Memory Extension Drive

The first Western Digital offering for this space is the Ultrastar DC ME200 Memory Extension Drive, which augments physical DRAM with between 4x-8x in memory capacity. It will be available to all WD channel partners.

Panasas continues to move beyond HPC with next generation of scale-out NAS

The big breakthrough for Panasas here is the new ASD-100 disaggregated Director Blade, which allows metadata to be accessed twice as fast as the previous product generation.

IDC Finds Server Bright Spot in Global HPC Sales

HPC servers

Worldwide revenue for the HPC servers jumped 7.9 percent to $2.6 billion in the second quarter of 2013, up from $2.4 billion in the same period last year.