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Long Reads - IT Hardware & Semiconductors, Peter Judge, DCD
In-depth features about the data center, AI, semiconductor, telco, and energy markets
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DC power in the racks
Silicon runs on direct current, so why not use DC to power racks?
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Building light into chips
The AI revolution needs so much processing power, could it be time to bring in a new generation of chips that combine photonics with conventional silicon?
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The DPU dilemma: life beyond SmartNICs
There’s a major shift happening in server hardware, and it’s emerged from a surprising direction: the humble network card
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Rebuilding EDSAC: The first real computer
EDSAC was a landmark in computer history. A team of volunteers are rebuilding it, using nothing more than photographs and memories
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Recycled bits save energy
The secret to unleashing more computer power for very little energy cost could be in the laws of thermodynamics
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Goonhilly: Star gazing
If we see a sudden growth in space technology, the UK’s Goonhilly Earth Station could be a major winner
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Freedom from hardware: Talking to Vertiv's CEO Rob Johnson
Who pays for critical infrastructure, in an everything-as-a-service world?
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Probing the universe: Upgrading CERN
The world’s largest particle accelerator, CERN’s large hadron collider, is getting an upgrade. So is CERN’s data center infrastructure
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Google and Cisco partner on hybrid cloud
Building a yellow brick road for Cisco enterprise customers into the Google Cloud
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The age of the Zettastructure
The zettastructure is evolving to handle the Internet of Things. It will change every part of our technology infrastructure
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Building webscale infrastructure
As the human race constructs the greatest project the world has ever seen, the architects behind it consider its human impact.
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Open to change
The cloud consumes technology differently. It needs scalable, flexible commodity hardware and software. Only open source can feed the data centers of tomorrow
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Are we nearly open yet?
Open systems and open standards are moving us to a world of software-defined everything
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Software defined starts to get traction
The market is moving towards software-defined utilities in the data center, but there is a lot of variation between countries and markets
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Huawei's DC 3.0 promises to shake things up
Chinese giant has plans for silicon photonics but plenty of practical improvements today
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Skeptics rain on Hortonworks' Hadoop parade
Hadoop players dismiss Hortonworks’ ODP standards effort at Hadoop Summit