At a new product extravaganza this morning during its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose, Nvidia unveiled the new Volta-based Quadro GV100 with RTX technology, positioning the pairing as a transformative engine for real-time ray tracing, offering "the biggest advance in computer graphics since the introduction of programmable shaders 15 years ago." The Quadro GV100 ...Full article
Organizing data is a challenge. The digital universe, according to International Data Corporation (IDC), doubles every two years. Based on current projections, it’s expected to reach 44 trillion gigabytes in 2020.1 And recent updates by IDC predict it will reach 180 trillion gigabytes in 2025. In most organizations, the amount of unstructured data has grown ...Full article
In the annals of venality, human trafficking has metastasized into one of the most horrific organized crimes against humanity since the Holocaust. It’s estimated that 40 million people, 80 percent of them girls and women, are currently ensnared in a nightmare of abduction, forced labor, sex work and, incredibly, the removal and sale of organs ...Full article
HPC cloud specialist Nimbix this week announced the addition of IBM’s Power9 technology to the Nimbix cloud starting with an early access “gated program” available now to be followed by broader access in the spring. Timing of the announcement coincided with IBM Think 2018 Conference being held in Las Vegas and Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference ...Full article
When ‘Willy the Wonder-Chicken’ defeated famed behavior psychologist B.F. Skinner at Tic-Tac-Toe in 19791, who would’ve imagined tomorrow’s McNugget would become a foot soldier in the battle between artificial intelligence and carnival barkers. Today, we suffer a never-ending stream of pseudo-tech articles predicting either an AI-induced dystopia or dismissing AI as a cyber parlor trick. ...Full article
It turns out the transition to zeroes and ones—the vaunted “digital transformation” many companies seek—isn’t going as smoothly as many vendors would have them think. Like most organizational changes, the embrace of digital technologies such as AI, blockchain or whatever else is being hyped at the moment is mostly proceeding in fits and starts. That ...Full article
HPE today announced the latest rev of its HPE Apollo 6500 platform, Gen10, along with a spate of new AI-oriented offerings designed to help customers optimize and scale up their AI and deep learning usage. Like its Gen9 predecessor, HPE’s Apollo 6500 platform with the XL270d Gen10 server supports up to eight Pascal or Volta Nvidia ...Full article
Public cloud offerings vary widely in terms of price and performance, but a cloud survey finds that overall performance is improving while prices among leading public cloud vendors continue to drop as they jockey to help enterprises shift to hybrid deployments. The benchmarking study released by technology consultant Cloud Spectator looked at infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) performance ...Full article
A batch of new open source efforts will among other things seek to unlock and define a firmware stack that would operate across enterprise infrastructure, cloud datacenters on up to HPC implementations. The Linux Foundation said this week its firmware initiative called OpenBMC (baseboard management controller) seeks to shed light on “often secretive” hardware design ...Full article
At SC17 in Denver four months ago, Ken King, GM, OpenPOWER, IBM Systems Group, told a somewhat jaundiced trio of journalists that 2018 would, finally, after several years of expectations, be the year OpenPOWER and IBM’s POWER processor makes a dent in the HPC/advanced scale server universe. Why 2018? Because, King said, the OpenPOWER ecosystem ...Full article
A trio of chip makers will collaborate on a reference architecture for speeding deployment of NVM Express over storage network fabrics. Cavium Technologies, which specializes in processors for cloud datacenters, announced the NVMe-over-fabrics collaboration with chip makers Marvell and Microsemi Corp. at the opening of this week’s Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit in San Jose. ...Full article
The interest in hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) appliances is widespread, replacing, and in some sense displacing, the hype around all-flash arrays as “the” hot topic in previous years. Organizations are turning to the HCI model due to one key benefit: simplicity. Users are no longer willing – or forced – to spend time on planning, building ...Full article
The accelerating pace of AI development continues to attract the attention of policy wonks who simultaneously view the technology as a strategic asset while worrying about unforeseen consequences of using the technology in war. The Washington-based Center for a New American Security is the latest think tank to weigh in on the nettlesome questions of ...Full article
Quantum is coming. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon enough*. Within 10 to 12 years, we’re told, special-purpose quantum systems (see related story: Hyperion on the Emergence of the Quantum Computing Ecosystem) will enter the commercial realm. Assuming this happens, we can also assume that quantum will, over extended time, become increasingly general ...Full article
Quantum computing – exciting and off-putting all at once – is a kaleidoscope of technology and market questions whose shapes and positions are far from settled. Hyperion Research (formerly IDC’s HPC group) is now ramping up efforts to aggressively track this emerging sector. Led by Bob Sorensen, who recently added chief analyst for quantum computing ...Full article
There’s a data dilemma in the world today. To provide the best and most personalized services to clients and to get the best analytic insights, companies need more data than ever before. Yet to comply with ever-increasing privacy regulations, they need to shed excess data and limit its use. Take the financial services industry. From ...Full article
The seemingly inevitable consolidation of the global semiconductor industry, plagued as it is by overcapacity and an unending search for new markets, was slowed at least temporarily by a Republican administration that invoked national security as a reason for intervening in technology markets. Previously, economic conservatives would have called the Trump administration move a case ...Full article
Serial entrepreneur Ben Golub, co-founder and former CEO of application container pioneer Docker Inc., has landed at a blockchain-based cloud startup called Storj Labs. The Atlanta-based company launched in 2015 is attempting to ride the wave of decentralized infrastructure fueled by blockchain technology and associated digital ledgers to offer cheap, encrypted cloud storage. Storj Labs ...Full article
Application migration is the process of redeploying an application, whether to newer infrastructure or to a private, public or hybrid cloud. The history of cloud migration has not always been kind to IT groups charged with executing it. Often, the move has started as a “Cloud First” mandate from the CIO or CTO to move ...Full article
AI and autonomous vehicles are en route to consigning human-based heavy machinery operation, trucking, package delivery, rail transport and bus and taxi driving to the dustbin of history, but until that happens, another futuristic technology, brain-machine interface (BMI), is literally tapping into the brains of equipment operators and drivers to detect when they are losing ...Full article
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