A roundup of headlines from last week's SC09 conference, includins items on the Aurora supercomputer, NVIDIa's Fermi GPU, Al Gore's keynote speech, the Green 500 rankings, and federal agencies embracing SSD storage from Fusion-io.
A Slashdot discussion on evaluating data centers features more than 200 comments about what to look for and avoid when selecting a data center, including questions to ask when touring a facility.
Average power densities continue to rise in data centers, and are affecting the lifespan of existing data center facilities, according to new survey data from Emerson Network Power. A majority of data centers say they will run out of capacity wit...
In this video, Al Enger from Cray, Inc. walks through the upgrade process of the Kraken supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which holds the number three spot in the new Top 500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers.
This white paper presents IDC’s findings on both the green and the business dividends that consolidation via virtualization delivers.
Here's a roundup of data center headlines from Internap (INAP), Rackspace Hosting (RAX), Joyent and Isilon Systems.
Will Microsoft's containers be a tipping point in a broader movement towards modular data center design? Microsoft's approach may build vendor support for containers, but others say the industry needs agreement on standards that extend beyond one...
Microsoft has unveiled the next generation of its data center container at its Windows Professional Developers Conference, and it includes significant design advances over the existing containers deployed in Microsoft's Chicago data center.
Microsoft has unveiled the next generation of its data center container at its Windows Professional Developers Conference, and it includes significant design advances over the existing containers deployed in Microsoft's Chicago data center.