How open hardware will crank up the power of applications
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by R. Danes | Apr 23, 2016
Building the application of your dreams has never been easier with the open-source software available to developers today. But there are some things that software tweaks alone can’t manage, and that’s when you need to go deeper, into the hardware to enable your application to perform on a whole new level. The developers on the edge of data analytics, in-memory analysis and high-performance computing are demanding hardware that can take on workloads that software alone can’t.
Albert Mu, VP of enterprise business at Mitac International Corp., said that many high-performance applications need the new OpenPOWER processors to work. He told David Floyer (@dfloyer), cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, “Basically, people want to put a lot of applications in the memory to do the analytics.”
Mitac’s new processor boasts a terabyte of memory, so that “you can basically put a whole database, a whole problem, in the memory, and then with the CPU, you can have very fast access to any analysis you want.”
Hardware in the spotlight
With software innovation having been center stage for some time, it will be interesting to see what the new open hardware can do to shake things up. Mu predicted exciting advances.
“We can have more innovation on the systems side, create more variety of machines to serve more market needs,” he said.
@theCUBE
#OpenPOWERSummit
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How open hardware will crank up the power of applications
#OpenPOWERSummit
by R. Danes | Apr 23, 2016
Building the application of your dreams has never been easier with the open-source software available to developers today. But there are some things that software tweaks alone can’t manage, and that’s when you need to go deeper, into the hardware to enable your application to perform on a whole new level. The developers on the edge of data analytics, in-memory analysis and high-performance computing are demanding hardware that can take on workloads that software alone can’t.
Albert Mu, VP of enterprise business at Mitac International Corp., said that many high-performance applications need the new OpenPOWER processors to work. He told David Floyer (@dfloyer), cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, “Basically, people want to put a lot of applications in the memory to do the analytics.”
Mitac’s new processor boasts a terabyte of memory, so that “you can basically put a whole database, a whole problem, in the memory, and then with the CPU, you can have very fast access to any analysis you want.”
Hardware in the spotlight
With software innovation having been center stage for some time, it will be interesting to see what the new open hardware can do to shake things up. Mu predicted exciting advances.
“We can have more innovation on the systems side, create more variety of machines to serve more market needs,” he said.
@theCUBE
#OpenPOWERSummit
