Cisco continues its tradition ofperformance and price/performance leadershipwith the announcement of aworld-record TPC-H benchmarkwith the SAP Sybase IQ database on the Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS?) platform. On Octo...
A sincere thank you to all of those who are serving or who have served in the USmilitary. We live freely today because you put your life on the line to protect all that we hold dear. "The Flag does not fly because of the winds tha...
SAP?HANATM is a next-generation database platform for real-time analytics and applications. Although the in-memory, columnar relational database debuted only recently (in June 2011), it has quickly become the fastest growing produ...
Yesterday, Nov 6, Cisco unveiled details of the Application Centric Infrastructure with an ecosystem of partners that share our common view -IT is in need of a transformation to create the Application Economy. Some key...
This week, Cisco launched its newest CSR program -Connected Healthy Children -Brazil. Much of the Brazilian population lives far away from major cities, so distance can pose a real barrier for children who need specialized medical...
Many thanks to the crew at LBL for hosting my talks yesterday. There were many insightful questions and comments throughout both talks. Here's the slides from my first talk, entitled "(Open) MPI, Parallel Computing, Life, th...
Introduction It's mind-boggling to see the speed at which people, process, data, and things are becoming more and more connected. The Internet of Everything (IoE) world is already happening. But what does that world really l...
Every Friday, we'll highlight the most important Cisco partner news and stories of the week, as well as point you to important, Cisco-related partner content you may have missed along the way. Here's what you might have missed thi...
Every server manufacturer has a Server TCO tool, of sorts.Why do I say "of sorts"? Because rather than a straightforward approach to TCO, some tools color the input parameters with fixed pre-sets, conditions and assumptions.Certai...
The guys from No Strings Attached Show just published their podcast we sponsored featuring Jim Florwick yesterday and already the verdict is in: Jim Florwick is awesome. For those of you who haven't had the chance to download the ...
When Cisco designed the concept of an Application Centric Infrastructure, we knew it wouldn't reach its full potential without drawing in a very comprehensive ecosystem in a number of areas. Perhaps the most impressive aspect...
Here's the slides from my second talk, which is a deep technical dive into both how the usNIC technology works, and how we use that technology in the BTL plugin that we wrote for Open MPI (which is upstream starting with Open MPI ...