Author Archives: Doug Black

Doug Black

From Iceland, HPC-as-a-Service Finds Toehold in FinServ, Automotive, Scientific R&D

December 9th, 2017 (0)

While high-demand workloads (e.g., bitcoin mining) can overheat data center cooling capabilities, at least one data center infrastructure provider has announced an HPC-as-a-service offering that features 100 percent free and zero-carbon cooling. Verne Global, a company seemingly intent on ...

Digital Transformation: Private Optical Networks and the ‘Third Platform’

December 8th, 2017 (0)

In order to remain competitive in today’s all-digital world, enterprises are embracing digital transformation (DX). Cloud applications are now a vital component for how organizations develop products, reach the market and control costs – covering everything from supply-chain to ...

At SC17: Silicon, Systems and Science – the Good News and the Bad

December 6th, 2017 (0)

We interviewed Karl Freund, lead analyst for deep learning and HPC at Moor Insights & Strategy, at SC17 in Denver to discuss the fertile crossover between AI and HPC – specifically, how new machine learning techniques are rapidly evolving ...

DAX Data Wrangling: Deutsche Börse Lifts Data Scientists’ ‘80% Problem’

December 1st, 2017 (0)

At the German Stock Exchange – aka Deutsche Börse, home of the DAX – data scientists are getting unburdened from “janitorial” tasks that can consume up to 80 percent of their time and keep them from focusing on work ...

Toward Broader AI Adoption: Deloitte’s ‘5 Vectors of Progress’

November 29th, 2017 (0)

For all the talk about AI it's somewhat surprising that only about 10 percent of companies have invested in machine learning. While the talk underscores AI’s great potential, the low adoption rate stresses its daunting complexity and costs. Certainly, ...

Overcoming Big Blocks to Digital Transformation

November 28th, 2017 (0)

Recent research from Dell captured the essence of today’s uncertainty around digital transformation. A survey of 4,000 business leaders worldwide found that 45 percent fear their companies may become obsolete in the next three to five years. Nearly half ...

AI’s Cool New Thing: Capsule Networks (explained)

November 22nd, 2017 (0)

A buzz is about in AI circles around “capsule networks,” a new variant on neural networks that backers say could simplify, cut the costs of, commoditize and, in the end, democratize how deep learning systems are taught to do ...

SC17 Takeaways: Machine Learning + HPC = ‘Synthesis Modeling’, and Other Developments

November 22nd, 2017 (0)

The annual supercomputing confab, SC17, was held last week in Denver, and there were many important announcements. Stories about science, silicon and systems all vied for attention and center stage at this ~12,000 person event. I’m certain I missed ...

How Cities Use HPC at the Edge to Get Smarter

November 17th, 2017 (0)

Cities are sensoring up, collecting vast troves of data that they run through predictive models to address problems that, in some cases, city managers didn’t even know existed. Speaking at SC17 in Denver this week, a panel of smart ...

Hyperion HPC Market Update: ‘Decent’ Growth Led by HPE; AI Transparency a Risk Issue

November 15th, 2017 (0)

The HPC market update from Hyperion Research (formerly IDC) at the annual SC conference is a business and social “must,” and this year’s presentation at SC17 played to a SRO crowd at a downtown Denver hotel. This writer has ...