Clustering for high availability and HPC

Preventing unplanned downtime in the datacentre is crucial to your organisation's business operations. To ensure the highest availability possible, check out the advice and news on high-availability (HA) clustering in this section, including information on backup, redundancy, failover and HA testing. Also, get the latest on using high-performance computing (HPC) clustering to handle heavy processing demands.

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Researchers explore historical Hubble datasets to understand the solar system

GPU-based supercomputer helps astronomers simulate exoplanet atmospheres
April 05, 2022 05 Apr'22
London Stock Exchange datacentre migration project secures low-latency network support from EXA

The London Stock Exchange Group is gearing up to shutter its primary City of London datacentre by the end of August 2022, while work continues on building out its new facility
April 05, 2022 05 Apr'22
HPE offers up progress report on how its space-based supercomputer is performing

Nearly one year on from its deployment, HPE shares details of some of the successful experiments its space-based supercomputer has been involved with
April 05, 2022 05 Apr'22
IBM z16 tackles financial fraud and quantum hacks

New addition to Z series mainframe family uses IBM Telum processor to accelerate AI for real-time credit card fraud detection

Sharp end of the edge: Managing micro-datacentres in a shared environment

Ongoing diversification in datacentre types gives rise to management challenges for operators, prompting a rethink about how they run their sites Continue Reading
Evolving datacentre chipsets put cooling, power and software management techniques under microscope

New processor designs that could revolutionise approaches to supporting higher power densities at the rack still look years away, it appears Continue Reading
Could Iceland be the best place in the world for high-performance computing?

Most of Iceland’s cheap, sustainable energy is currently used by aluminium smelters, but recognising the need to diversify, the Landsvirkjun power company now promotes other uses Continue Reading

10 years on, and HPC is taken for granted

In recent weeks we’ve looked back at several areas of IT. In many, we concluded that while today may look technically very different from yesterday, that’s just superficial: the underlying ... Continue Reading
The generation gap: Why legacy datacentres are not a good fit for HPC

In this guest post, Spencer Lamb, vice president of Harlow-based colocation firm Kao Data, sets out why legacy datacentres may struggle to accommodate the growing demand for HPC workloads The ... Continue Reading
Where HPC lives: The London-to-Cambridge UK Innovation Corridor

In this guest post, Spencer Lamb, vice president of Harlow-based colocation provider Kao Data, discusses how HPC datacentres are aiding the fight against Covid-19 All science is data-driven: ... Continue Reading