The Energy Department's High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) program, roughly a year old, continues to gather momentum with the recent award of $3.8 million for 13 new industry projects. More effective collaboration with and transfer of HPC knowledge to industry is a growing imperative at the agency and aligned with the National Strategic Computing ...Full article
China’s impressive standing up of the 93 petaflops Sunway TaihuLight atop the Top500 list in June ruffled more than a few feathers in the west. Here’s yet more fodder for stirring up geo-computational acumen nervousness – a report by HackerRank, a blog that posts coding challenges, indicates the U.S. would place 28th in a Coding Olympics while ...Full article
The Open Compute Project spearheaded by Facebook continues to wring out "big software" platforms such as the latest release of OpenStack, container orchestrators like Kubernetes along with block and other big data storage approaches running on environments ranging from containers to hybrid clouds. Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) used an OCP technology day this week to announce ...Full article
After offering OpenPower Summit attendees a limited preview in April, IBM is unveiling further details of its next-gen CPU, Power9, which the tech mainstay is counting on to regain market share ceded to rival Intel. Built on GlobalFoundries 14nm finFET process technology, Power9 will be the centerpiece in Power-based servers starting in the second half of ...Full article
The future isn’t what it used to be in the financial services industry. The present isn’t, either. The past, for that matter, wasn’t as tranquil as might be thought. Roughly since the invention of the telegraph 175 years ago, the pressures on investment managers have remained the same: acceleration in the pace of change; the ...Full article
With persistent storage emerging as a key issue in application container deployments, a flash storage vendor has partnered with container data management software specialist ClusterHQ to build a storage management plug-in for the open source container platform. Kaminario, an all-flash storage vendor based in Needham, Mass., said this week it is partnering with ClusterHQ to ...Full article
Japanese engineers claimed to have developed the first secure "cryptoprocessor" able to adjust security levels on the fly without first upgrading the device itself. Previously, the researchers noted, encryption hardware required an upgrade as secure key lengths using approaches like RSA public key cryptography increased beyond 512 bits. Japan's Science and Technology Agency supported secure ...Full article
In a step towards greater interoperability for the Internet of Things, a Bay Area company has launched a platform that allows chipmakers to register Bluetooth and other network-enabled chips on a public blockchain. The registry is intended to store the digital identity of physical items, initially consumer goods and collectible items embedded with Bluetooth and ...Full article
Nvidia’s autonomous vehicle strategy took a step forward this week with the announcement of a new mobile CPU, called “Parker,” offered to automakers as a single unit or integrated into the company’s DRIVE PX 2 platform, announced at CES earlier this year. Along with two Parker chips, DRIVE PX 2 will include two Pascal GPUs ...Full article
Despite major market inroads being made by Apache Spark, a new forecast estimates the global market for the Hadoop big data framework will continue to grow at a healthy clip through 2021, fueled in part by growing enterprise demand for Hadoop services. According to a market forecast released this week by Allied Market Research, the ...Full article
Companies, especially U.S. companies, investing the most in servers and other infrastructure also are investing more in IT managers, a new salary survey found. The DevOps salary report released Wednesday (Aug. 24) by IT automation software specialist Puppet also found that U.S. enterprises with mature DevOps practices typically pay IT "practitioners"—defined variously as system administrators ...Full article
Seeking to bridge the gap between IT and developers, VMware Inc. announced a series of alliances designed to speed deployment of an enterprise version of the Internet of Things (IoT). The company (NYSE: VMW) said Tuesday (Aug. 23) it would work with Bayshore Networks, Dell, Intwine Connect, Deliotte Digital, PTC and V5 Systems to deploy ...Full article
Data lakes solve a lot of problems in today's big data world. When properly designed, they serve as an efficient means for storing large volumes and varieties of data. A data lake's efficiency comes from its inverse approach to data storage as compared to traditional structured data warehouses: Rather than enforcing rigid schemas upon arrival, ...Full article
Leading purveyors of application container infrastructure are downplaying a recent analysis that identifies a resource management feature in the Linux kernel as a potential "performance killer." LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) released an application container analysis last week after conducting several months of internal "pressure testing" of container infrastructure. It found that many container projects running on ...Full article
This week saw the eruption of a vendor spat when NVIDIA, developer of GPUs widely used in the AI/machine learning market, alleged foul play against Intel in recent comparative benchmark results involving Intel’s Xeon Phi processors. While NVIDIA makes some fair points about the methodology employed by its rival, Intel announced impressive news of its ...Full article
The shift from traditional datacenters to cloud infrastructure is exponentially expanding server workloads, thereby increasing enterprises' "attackable surface area" and, with it, security risks, a new vendor survey warns. CloudPassage Inc., a security platform vendor focusing on shielding servers running in datacenter and cloud infrastructure, polled attendees at the recent Black Hat security conference. In ...Full article
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco this week, Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager Diane Bryant announced the launch of Intel’s Silicon Photonics product line and teased a brand-new Phi product, codenamed “Knights Mill,” aimed at machine learning workloads. With the introduction of Silicon Photonics, Intel is debuting two new 100G optical ...Full article
As enterprise systems grow into agglomerations of cloud applications and big data sources spread across hybrid and even multi-cloud environments, the task of extracting data from many sources and utilizing it within integrated applications consumes increasing time and energy from data architects struggling to map thousands of data elements within a complex data schema tree. ...Full article
With early adopters of application container technology completing early testing in multi-tenant settings, potential performance issues are beginning to surface. Among them, according to hyper-scaler LinkedIn, is a Linux kernel feature called "control groups" used with most containers to assign resources. In an analysis based on several months of "pressure testing," Zhenyun Zhuang, a software ...Full article
When it comes to enterprise-level customer care, machine learning enables Virtual Assistant solutions to automate tasks that used to require a live agent: password resets; address and complex information collection; even sales support. Integrating machine learning into customer care opens doors to more flexible automated solutions. It also frees up live agents to focus on ...Full article
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