News site’s metal server rewrote the rules of extreme numerical computing

A new benchmark in large-scale numerical computation has been set with the calculation of 314 trillion digits of pi on a ...
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Record Pi slice: 314T digits, as site beats Google Cloud for now

The latest record-breaking calculation of pi did not come from a sprawling cloud cluster but from a single, meticulously tuned server that pushed the constant to 314 trillion digits. The feat ...
Computer Weekly

Rubrik backup appliance adds physical platforms to hybrid cloud

Rubrik has added physical platform backup and hybrid cloud archive capability to its flash-equipped data backup appliance with the announcement of its Firefly release. Firefly allows customers to back ...
ZDNet

Small business servers: Why and how you can say 'no' to the cloud

In this cloud-centric world, physical servers have settled into the background. Today, it's all about on-demand services where you contract with another company to manage your servers, usually in some ...