Server clustering vendor Myricom recently unveiled switches to build large clusters – 256-port switches that can be configured to support as many as 8,192 hosts. Each switch connects to the other ...

NASA has detected a large grouping of sunspots — dark patches on the sun — known as AR3576, which have increased in size in the last month and could be a risk for strong solar flares. Solar flares, ...

Broadcom Inc. today debuted a new chip lineup, the Tomahawk 6 series, that’s optimized to power Ethernet switches in data centers. The company says that customers can expect bandwidth of up to 102.4 ...

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Lukas Gentele is the cofounder and CEO of Loft Labs, Inc.—creators of the popular open-source projects vCluster, DevPod and DevSpace. Kubernetes is a well-known open-source platform facilitating the ...

Supermassive black holes appear to reside at the center of every galaxy and to have done so since galaxies formed early in the history of the Universe. Currently, however, we can’t entirely explain ...

One and a half billion years ago the small, inconspicuous galaxy Messier 82 (M82) almost smashed into its large, massive neighbour galaxy Messier 81 (M81), causing a frenzy of star formation. New ...

Meta Platforms Inc. today revealed a pair of enormously powerful graphics processing unit clusters that it says will be used to support the training of next-generation generative artificial ...

Recent research has revealed that three well-known star clusters — the Orion Nebula Cluster, the Pleiades, and the Hyades — are linked in a cosmic family tree. Though these clusters appear distinct ...