Over at the NVIDIA Blog, Kristin Bryson writes that the Oracle Bare Metal Cloud now offers Tesla P100 GPUs for technical computing. “The move underscores growing demand for public-cloud access to our GPU computing platform from an increasingly wide set of enterprise users. Oracle’s massive customer base means that a broad range of businesses across many industries will have access to accelerated computing to harness the power of AI, accelerated analytics and high performance computing.”
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Using Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services with PBS Professional
June 12, 2017 by
Bruce Burns from Oracle presented this talk at the PBS Works User Group. “In this session you learn how to use PBS Professional with Oracle BMCS for common customer use case scenarios to dynamically scale out, on demand and leverage the price / performance advantages that Oracle BMCS uniquely provides with PBS Works.”
Job of the Week: Cloud Performance Architect at Oracle in Seattle
May 27, 2017 by
Oracle in Seattle is seeking a Cloud Performance Architect in our Job of the Week. “As a Cloud Performance Architect, you will be a leading contributor in improving performance of Oracle’s latest Cloud Services Technologies. You will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. Additionally, you will be responsible for defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems. If you have a passion for improving and creating high performance software products, this is the place where you can make a difference.”
Oracle Cloud to add PBS Works for Technical Computing
January 19, 2017 by
Today Altair announced plans to build and offer HPC solutions on the Oracle Cloud Platform. This follows Oracle’s decision to name Altair PBS Works as its preferred workload management solution for Oracle Cloud customers. “This move signals a big shift in strategy for Oracle, a company that abandoned the HPC market after it acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010.”
Oracle Acquires StackEngine Startup to Automate Docker
December 20, 2015 by
On December 18, Oracle closed an agreement to acquire StackEngine, an Austin-based startup focused on Docker automation. All StackEngine employees will be joining Oracle as part of Oracle Public Cloud.
SGI UV 300RL Enables Real-time Analytics with Oracle Database In-Memory
October 26, 2015 by
Today SGI introduced the SGI UV 300RL for big data in-memory analytics. As a new model in the SGI UV server line certified and supported with Oracle Linux, the SGI UV 300RL provides up to 32 sockets and 24 terabytes of shared memory. The solution enables enterprises that have standardized on Intel-based servers to run Oracle Database In-Memory on a single system to help achieve real-time operations and accelerate data analytics at unprecedented scale.
Penguin On Demand Powers Oracle Team USA for America’s Cup
May 6, 2015 by
Today Penguin Computing announced that Oracle Team USA is using Penguin Computing on Demand (POD) in conjunction with NUMECA’s FINE/Marine CFD software for hydrodynamic modeling.
Oracle Server Business Missing in Action
March 7, 2013 by
Fans of the old Sun Microsystems may be wondering how the server business is doing at Oracle some three years after the acquisition. Over at GigaOm, Barb Darrow writes that Oracle’s gamble on hardware just isn’t paying off. Here’s the problem, since it entered the hardware business, Oracle hasn’t sold enough engineered systems to make […]
Xyratex Acquires Lustre Assets from Oracle, and there is Much Rejoicing
February 19, 2013 by
Today Xyratex announced that the company has acquired the original Lustre trademark, logo, website and associated intellectual property from Oracle, and will assume responsibility for providing support to Lustre customers going forward. The company say it plans to advance the global Lustre portfolio by supporting the community-oriented development of Lustre as an open source file system and continuing […]
Oracle Teams with Fujitsu on Sparc64 Athena Chip
October 2, 2012 by
Over at Computerworld, Joab Jackson writes that Oracle is partnering with Fujitsu on a new liquid-cooled 28 nm SPARC chip called Athena. Perhaps the most novel aspect of the processor is how it will be cooled by liquid, in a process the company calls “liquid loop cooling.” In effect, each server will have a radiator, […]
