In case you missed it, IBM recently made an announcement regarding their WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging running over native InfiniBand enabled Blade Servers. The performance the Chiliean Stock Exchange is seeing is really impressive – 3000 orders per second with latency reduced by 100x of its current level. Latency performance is very critical for [...]
You don’t have to ask – vacation was awesome and as always not as long as we would like it to be. Now that we’ve taken the rust off our fingers, we’ve made progress with a bit more complex testbed. We’ve decided to look at the virtualization space and run our next application on top [...]
As promised in my last post, and after reviewing the OP-EX and CAP-EX saving provided by looking at a Virtual Protocol Interconnect (VPI) oriented data center, we need to look at how the business can benefit from using such unified systems. As described in my first post, we will be using off-the-shelf market-known applications from [...]
This week’s blog is short, but it’s about the candy: the Rack — the Data Center’s building block. The pictures below visually describe what each one of us would like to have in their Data Center. Density – over 150 cores within less then 10U. Three different interconnects, 1GigE, 10GigE and 40Gb/s InfiniBand, using two [...]
To recap my previous post, we’ve been setting the stage upon which vendors were to be evaluated and we’re ready for the “big race” (which we’ll do without “naming names”): System: I’ve considered 2 different dense systems which both followed the CPU and memory requirements: dual-socket quad core, 16GB memory (2GB per core), and support [...]
Re-capping last week’s post…I knew we wanted to have a system which would contain all the building blocks of the data center in a single (easily expendable) rack. Internally for Mellanox, I felt we should review the full procurement process to understand and provide data-center managers with better understanding/knowledge of the hard, and proven to be sometimes painful, [...]
