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InfiniBand: Who is the Market Leader?

So, Intel recently announced their plans to acquire QLogic, the manufacturer of InfiniBand hardware and software. I just wanted to compare the two major InfiniBand manufacturers, QLogic and Mellanox, by their sizes. Here is the graph: If you are a … Continue reading

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Chroma Will Help to Provision and Manage Lustre Installations

Back to the good old days when I worked as a system administrator, I remember that I wanted to implement a Lustre file system for the two small clusters that we had (64 and 20 nodes, respectively). However, after learning … Continue reading

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Russia Threatens to Build a 10-Petaflop Supercomputer

Russian supercomputing company, T-Platforms, was quoted on 23 December 2011 by “Computerworld” as claiming to build a 10-petaflop system. Okay, it was me who wrote “threatens”. T-Platforms didn’t state it so. What is more interesting is that their website still … Continue reading

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