• Cloud
  • Mobility
  • Networking
  • Server
  • Storage

Gestalt IT

Independent Experts United

  • Exclusives
  • Podcast
  • Gestalt News
  • Tech Talks
  • Favorites
  • Services
  • Events

Openness and Composable Systems

April 3, 2018 by Russ White Leave a Comment

Openness and Composable Systems

Openness, it seems, is “in the air.” While the Liqid folks were over at OCP, Russ White was over at the Open Networking Summit (ONS), where he attended the Linux Foundation (Networking), or LF(N), board meeting. What was interesting at this year’s summit is just how little the focus of open network is on bare metal routers and switches, and how much of the focus is on server-based and overlay networking. The last mile, as it were, in the data center is becoming ever more important. This just shows the question hanging over the network has not changed much in the last twenty years: how much intelligence will be pushed into the network, and how much in the host?

Filed Under: Featured, Liqid, Tech Talks Tagged With: #LiqidHPC, @rtggeek, @WeAreLiqid, Composable Infrastructure, Nvidia GTC, Open Compute Summit, Open Networking Summit

GPUs and Composable Computing

March 22, 2018 by Russ White Leave a Comment

GPUs and Composable Computing

In our latest Tech Talk series with Liqid, Russ White looks at why composable infrastructure is ideally suited to answer a prickly question in GPU computing: How many processors is this job going to require?

Filed Under: Exclusive, Featured, Liqid, Tech Talks Tagged With: #LiqidHPC, @rtggeek, @WeAreLiqid, Composable Infrastructure, GPU Compute

Spectre, Meltdown, and Flexible Scaleout

February 13, 2018 by Russ White 2 Comments

Spectre, Meltdown, and Flexible Scaleout

The recent Meltdown and Spectre attacks illustrate the problematic nature of modern computing systems. While the earlier Rowhammer attack could read or attack one process running in a virtual environment from another process running on the same processor, the Meltdown and Spectre attacks are of a completely different class, enabling a process to read large amounts of information from another process’ memory space. This is because inside each hosts, CPU makers have embraced a scale up approach. But what would happen with a more scale out approach to the architecture?

Filed Under: Featured, Liqid, Tech Talks Tagged With: #LiqidHPC, @rtggeek, @WeAreLiqid, HCI, Meltdown, PCIe Switch, Spectre, speculative execution

GPUs, HPC, and PCI Switching

November 14, 2017 by Russ White 1 Comment

GPUs, HPC, and PCI Switching

Russ White considers the challenges of using GPU clusters in high performance computing. Aside from possibly lacking software to take advantage of it, the other challenge lies in the connection network. Ethernet is the default standard for this, but requires additional overhead. Russ sees using PCI Express as a much more efficient solution. He considers a PCIe switch from Liqid to dynamically compose infrastructure.

Filed Under: Featured, Liqid, Tech Talks Tagged With: #LiqidHPC, @rtggeek, @WeAreLiqid, GPU, HPC, PCI, PCI Express, PCIe Switch

Connect

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Sign up for Gestalt News!

Select One or More Topics

Gestalt IT on YouTube

The Government Episode | Gestalt IT Rundown, March 7, 2018

Panera is Toast | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 4, 2018

Subscribe on YouTube

More Tech Talks

Gaining Escape Velocity from Vendor Lock-In with Neutrix Cloud

Verify, Or Die Trying: Observations on Change Management

InfiniGuard – Enterprise-Class Data Protection at Petabyte Scale

Succeeding With SaaS and Viptela Cloud On-Ramp

INFINIDAT InfiniSync – A World of Infinite Possibilities in Zero RPO Synchronous Replication

Gestalt – (noun) an organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts.

Categories

  • Exclusives
  • Podcast
  • Gestalt News
  • Tech Talks
  • Favorites
  • Services
  • Events

Topics

  • Cloud
  • Mobility
  • Networking
  • Server
  • Storage

The Socials

  • View GestaltIT’s profile on Facebook
  • View GestaltIT’s profile on Twitter
  • View Gestalt_IT’s profile on Instagram
  • View isaHnBrJzPtxd5PcCOoSSw’s profile on YouTube

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS
  • WordPress.org

Editors: Stephen Foskett, Tom Hollingsworth, Rich Stroffolino

Copyright © 2018 · News Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in