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AI a Hot Topic on SC16 Agenda
November 11th, 2016 (0)
The rapid emergence AI and machine learning within the HPC and advance scale computing industries looks to be a dominant topic – from vendor product announcements to analyst market forecasts to end user presentations – at next week’s SC16 ...

Gaining Visibility into the ‘Black Box’ of At-Scale Data Storage, Usage and Performance
November 11th, 2016 (0)
There’s Big Data, and then there’s the oceanic volume of external and machine data processed to generate a weather forecast of, let’s say, the upcoming 30 years. In such an at-scale environment, it’s doubly difficult to get insights about ...

HPC Meets AI and Creates New Grand Challenges
November 11th, 2016 (0)
The intersection of HPC and AI is creating a vibrant new market: “High Performance Artificial Intelligence” (HPAI) that is fueling the growth of AI platforms and products. After decades of slow progress, HPC has given AI the boost it ...

The New Cyber Security Minefield: A Proactive, Not Reactive, Approach
November 10th, 2016 (0)
In 2016, the cyber landscape shifted dramatically – at least on the adversary side. In the last few months alone, we’ve seen hackers penetrate organizations from the DNC to WADA and gain access to sensitive documents, which were weaponized ...

ARM Will be Part of OpenHPC 1.2 Release at SC16
November 10th, 2016 (0)
Perhaps stealing a bit of OpenHPC’s SC16 thunder, ARM announced today that ARMv8-A will be the first alternative architecture with OpenHPC support and part of OpenHPC version 1.2 released at SC16. The announcement came in a blog by Darren ...

DDN in Product Line Refresh, Multi-level Security for Lustre
November 8th, 2016 (0)
Ahead of next week’s SC16 conference, high end storage vendor DataDirect Networks today announced a raft of product line updates, including a new burst buffer appliance and updates to its block and file storage appliances, along with what DDN ...

Is Entrepreneurship Flagging in America? Not in HPC
November 5th, 2016 (0)
HPC has always been a fountain of innovations that eventually become mainstream. These innovations have been both technological as well as in business models. HPC’s long history of fostering entrepreneurship and creating new markets is well established. What we ...

Binding Customers to Chains: 150M Restaurant Patrons in a Hadoop Fishbowl
November 4th, 2016 (0)
Chain restaurants have a paradoxical mission: grow a mass customer base, but do so based on one successful customer experience at a time. Big data, analytics, interactive customer relationship management and, in the case of one SaaS provider, Open ...

Solving the IoT’s Greatest Hurdle – Interoperability
November 2nd, 2016 (0)
The McKinsey Global Institute cited interoperability as the difference between the Internet of Things (IoT) being a $7T market and a $11.1T market by 2025. The more devices we are able to connect, the more powerful our data and ...

Graphcore Touts 100x ML Speedup with PCIe Plug-In
November 1st, 2016 (0)
Graphcore emerged from stealth mode this week with news of a $30 million Series A round to help finance ongoing development of its machine learning (ML) and deep learning acceleration solutions, including a PCIe card that plugs directly into ...
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