The first Western Digital offering for this space is the Ultrastar DC ME200 Memory Extension Drive, which augments physical DRAM with between 4x-8x in memory capacity. It will be available to all WD channel partners.
The big breakthrough for Panasas here is the new ASD-100 disaggregated Director Blade, which allows metadata to be accessed twice as fast as the previous product generation.
HP continues to shoot for the moon with its power- and space-thrifty Moonshot servers, this week rolling out a line based on Opteron processors from AMD.
Worldwide revenue for the HPC servers jumped 7.9 percent to $2.6 billion in the second quarter of 2013, up from $2.4 billion in the same period last year.
