• Dept. of Energy Awards $300M Deal for IBM Supercomputers

  The systems will be powered by IBM's OpenPOWER CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs and be five times faster than the current-generation Titan supercomputer. Read More

• 365 Data Centers Opens Nashville Technology Hub

  Nashville tech hub will give free colo to select startups and businesses in bid to help boost local tech scene. Read More

• Facebook Launches Iowa Data Center With Entirely New Network Architecture

  Breaks massive server clusters into smaller pods, creates building-wide network fabric Read More

• Can hard drives' failure be predicted?

  Can hard drives' failure be predicted? : Hardware failure is one of the major causes leading to failure of systems and implicitely to the deterioration of the quality of service. Predicting hardward failures would allow taking proactive measures, thus reducing the chances of downtime in the…

• Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For November 14th, 2014

  Hey, it's HighScalability time: Spectacular  rendering of the solar system to scale. ( Roberto Ziche )   700 : number of low-orbit satellites in a sidecar cheap internet; 130 terabytes : AdRoll ad data processed daily; 15 billion : daily Weather Channel forecasts; 1 million : AWS customers …

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