Advertisement

TidalScale Breaks New Ground with 15TB Server Running on the IBM Cloud

By on

tsby Angela Guess

A new article out of the company reports, “TidalScale announced today that it has configured and run Software-Defined Servers™ ranging in capacity from 1TB to 15TB of DRAM and up to 400 cores assembled from standard physical server hardware running on the IBM Cloud. TidalScale’s HyperKernel™ software allows users to easily aggregate processors, memory, storage, ¬and networks into virtual servers. These Software-Defined Servers can flexibly scale to match the requirements of essentially any application.”

The article continues, “Working closely with IBM, TidalScale deployed single Linux instances ranging in size from 1TB to 15TB of DRAM and up to 400 cores in IBM’s Cloud Data Center in San Jose. These systems booted an unmodified CentOS 7.2 operating system instance running on TidalScale’s HyperKernel across 1 to as many as 20 physical servers. The patented HyperKernel software, a distributed hypervisor, uses machine learning to transparently and optimally co-locate compute and data resources for best performance of the unmodified applications.”

Marc Jones, Director & Distinguished Engineer of the IBM Cloud Platform, commented, “We were able to create a single 15TB server from a collection of standard servers… The speed of this deployment shows how Software Defined Servers make it easy to run memory-intensive applications like data mining, machine learning and simulation. The TidalScale HyperKernel on IBM Cloud servers makes it simple to address large-scale computations and harness the power of the cloud.”

Read more here.

Photo credit: TidalScale

Leave a Reply