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Fountainhead: Converged Infrastructure Part 2.

Fountainhead

It highlights, albeit in a stylized fashion, just how many point-products an average-sized IT department is using. And I mean I/O components like NICs and HBAs, not to mention switches, load balancers and cables. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). other than managing your software stack).

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Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

As each of these programs was becoming more complex and demand for new operations such as geometric processing increased, the GPU architecture evolved into one long feed-forward pipeline consisting of generic 32-bit processing units handling both task and data parallelism. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.