Author Archives: Doug Black

Doug Black

AI Healthcare Revolution: Doctors and Data Fight Chronic Challenges

May 24th, 2018 (0)

Data has been declared the world’s most valuable commodity, the new oil of the global economy, the new gold, the new diamonds and rubies, and this holds particularly true in healthcare, where data and AI are combining to save ...

First Xeon-FPGA Integration Launched by Intel

May 22nd, 2018 (0)

Ever since Intel’s acquisition of FPGA specialist Altera in 2015 for $16.7 billion, it’s been widely acknowledged that some day, Intel would release a processor that integrates its mainstream Xeon CPU server chip with lightning-fast FPGAs. That day has ...

Public vs. Private Blockchains – Which One’s Right for You?

May 21st, 2018 (0)

While blockchain is currently one of the most trumpeted technologies, some dismiss it as a fad related to cryptocurrency. The reality, however, is that companies across industries are looking at how blockchain can address major business issues, particularly with ...

Rehydrating the Data Center – A New Spin on Water Cooling

May 18th, 2018 (0)

Much as race cars are to the automobile industry, high performance computing (HPC) has long been the proving ground for technologies that later end up in mainstream computing. Indeed, today’s cloud systems and hyperscale implementations owe a considerable tip ...

Intel Extends Support for IoT Vision Edge Apps

May 18th, 2018 (0)

In the IoT era unfolding before us, the next frontier is vision applications, applying ML and DL techniques for real-time/near-time analytics of video data from cameras at the edge. It’s a way to monitor reality, with use cases across ...

The Good, Bad & Ugly of Public Clouds: Plenty of Each

May 15th, 2018 (0)

Anything as immense, impactful and powerful as public cloud computing is bound to be variegated, encompassing the good, the bad and the ugly. As AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and the other platforms gain more market adoption – ...

Emerging Advanced Scale Tech Trends Focus of Annual Tabor Conference

May 9th, 2018 (0)

At Tabor Communications' annual Advanced Scale Forum (ASF) held this week in Austin, the focus was on enterprise adoption of HPC-class technologies and high performance data analytics (HPDA). It’s a confab that brings together end users (CIOs, IT planners, ...

Does Your Company Have an AI Strategy, Really?

May 9th, 2018 (0)

At the risk of sounding like Captain Obvious, AI is one of tech’s hottest buzzwords these days. The hype is impossible to escape. Of course, some trends become the focus of intense attention legitimately, because they really are once-in-a-generation ...

15 Years in 28 Minutes: Eni’s GPU-based HPC4 Speeds Oil Reservoir Simulations

May 3rd, 2018 (0)

The most powerful supercomputer in commercial use, multinational energy company Eni’s Nvidia GPU-powered HPC4, simulates 15 year’s worth of oil reservoir production in an astounding average of 28 minutes, according to an announcement from Eni. The Milan-based company uses ...

Dell, in AI-IoT Push, Teams with Microsoft, Intel; New 4-Socket Servers Support GPUs, FPGAs

May 2nd, 2018 (0)

At its annual Dell Technologies World conference in Las Vegas this week, the company launched new PowerEdge four-socket servers featuring FPGA support along with AI and IoT partnerships with Intel and Microsoft. Dell EMC’s new PowerEdge R940xa and PowerEdge ...