Doug Black

Why Smart Manufacturing Can Be So Dumb

January 9th, 2017 (0)

Someone recently asked for my thoughts on smart manufacturing, or the so-called IT revolution in the factory. They couldn’t believe I didn’t see it as the salvation of American manufacturing. Don’t misunderstand. Smart manufacturing has a place in reviving ...

Predictions 2017: Advanced Scale Trends to Watch

January 5th, 2017 (0)

“The future ain’t what it used to be,” so say the blasé and the pessimistic. But in advanced scale computing expectations are so charged that it’s reasonable to say that for our sector of the technology industry these are ...

Machine Learning and Online Security in 2017

January 5th, 2017 (0)

As companies increase their digital footprints, ‘identify and diagnose’ capabilities will not defend against the growing array of security threats, according to analysts at Gartner Group. Because the types of data ingested by analytics packages are evolving from structured ...

Intel-BMW and Nvidia-Mercedes Vie for Driverless Car Spotlight at CES

January 4th, 2017 (0)

Nvidia with Mercedes-Benz and Intel with BMW made major autonomous vehicle announcements this week at the Consumer Electronics Show, with Nvidia/Mercedes vowing the release a driverless car by the end of the year and Intel/BMW saying that approximately 40 ...

The ‘Extinction Event’ for Performance Analysis and Capacity Management

January 3rd, 2017 (0)

The traditional way IT conducts performance analysis and capacity management for their infrastructure is, officially, a dinosaur. From the most advanced scale HPC architectures to commodity hardware and software based distributed environments to proprietary platforms, the standard approaches are ...

Fast Rewind: 2016 Was a Wild Ride for HPC

December 22nd, 2016 (0)

Some years quietly sneak by. 2016, not so much. It’s safe to say there are always forces reshaping the HPC landscape but this year’s bunch seemed like a noisy lot. Among the noisemakers: TaihuLight, DGX-1/Pascal, Dell EMC & HPE-SGI ...

Video: An Eye on the Coming Multi-Architecture HPC Landscape

December 21st, 2016 (0)

Nimbix is a public cloud services provider with a twist: the Richardson, TX, company offers HPC capabilities in the cloud. It’s also a company that embraces a vision of a diversified processor architectural landscape of the future according to ...

Where Do We Come From? Ancestry.com’s 19B-Record ‘Big Tree’ Database May Have the Answer

December 20th, 2016 (0)

“Where Do We Come From? What Are We?” Not only Paul Gauguin (see picture) but most of humanity has been vexed by these questions since… well, since the dawn of humanity. “If the means were available,” observed science fiction ...

Avoid These Common Cloud Migration Pitfalls

December 19th, 2016 (0)

The vast majority of enterprises lack a mature strategy for at-scale cloud computing – and that can easily translate to inefficient or expensive cloud projects in 2017. According to a recent survey by IDC, only 3 percent of 6,159 ...

Snell: The ‘Wild West’ of HPC Disaggregation

December 16th, 2016 (0)

We caught up with Addison Snell, CEO of HPC industry watcher Intersect360, at SC16 last month, and Snell had his expected, extensive list of insights into trends driving advanced-scale technology in both the commercial and research sectors. Possibly the ...

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