Given the current state of the global energy sector—including the nation's largest coal mining company filing for bankruptcy protection this week—no current operator can afford to drill a dry well. Given the high stakes, the oil and gas industry is embracing new HPC techniques that now include information fusion and metadata analytics. Practitioners of these ...Full article
Advancements in assisted driving software and self-driving vehicles portend a new era for ground transportation. One of the less-talked-about set of capabilities behind this trend is the integration of automobiles with the internet. This coalescence of two different industries is already underway and is changing the way we travel in areas like navigation, safety, and ...Full article
As OpenStack users align around its standard APIs for deploying cloud infrastructure, adoption of application container technologies on OpenStack platforms continues to generated the most buzz in the latest OpenStack user survey released this week. Still, the survey found that OpenStack deployments remain complex and the technology brings with it a steep learning curve before ...Full article
Building on the growing enterprise shift toward developer operations, a storage startup is emerging from stealth mode with and "elastic" data fabric approach that promises to deliver public cloud-like block storage to hybrid cloud platforms. Datera, founded by the creators of the Linux IO storage stack, also announced a $40 million funding round on Tuesday ...Full article
Cloud instances are typically spun out on a one-off basis across an enterprise. Most organizations have multiple cloud accounts purchased in a decentralized, ad hoc way. For large companies with $100,000+ monthly cloud fees, monitoring use and spending on public cloud services is a daunting task. Those with compute- and data-intensive advanced scale analytics implementations ...Full article
Worldwide, the HPC market is booming as the industry enters the era of exascale-size data sets, and supercomputing applications expand beyond the academic and scientific world into financial services, life sciences, manufacturing, oil and gas, aerospace, defense, and more. Analysts predict the HPC market will reach more than $44 billion by 2020. For many more ...Full article
The U.S. intelligence apparatus is looking for a spy to come in from the cold to serve as its first chief information officer. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the entity created in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks to oversee the nation's far-flung intelligence operations, recently released a job description for ...Full article
Mohamad El-Zein has been on the front lines of advanced scale computing for decades, and like a veteran combat soldier who has seen one too many failed battle plans, he views the promises of next-generation HPC technology with a wary eye toward his vulnerable flank. As Manager, Advanced Materials and Mechanics at John Deere & ...Full article
Intel’s effort to expand Lustre’s beyond science and the Top500 HPC communities, where it has long been strong, and into enterprise and cloud environments was apparent in announcements made at the Lustre User Group Conference (LUG 2016) held in Portland in this week. Among the more significant was Microsoft’s news that the Intel Cloud Edition ...Full article
OpenStack pioneer Rackspace has moved to boost enterprise adoption of the cloud operating system with this week's release of a managed private cloud service that can be installed in a variety of datacenter settings. Also this week, the cloud provider along with OpenStack developers announced new servers, server specifications and the latest release of OpenStack ...Full article
The enterprise and data center markets are going through what some experts call a “once in a decade transition.” Driven by the insatiable demand for ever-increasing bandwidth, these industries are rapidly moving from 40G to 100G networks while also upgrading from shorter-reach multi-mode fiber to longer-reach, single-mode fiber mesh architectures. This is good news for ...Full article
IT automation specialist Puppet Labs is expanding its operations, launching the latest version of its flagship platform and shortening its name: Puppet Labs is now known simply as Puppet. The privately held company this week announced the name change, a key executive hire, and a new version of its Puppet Enterprise platform designed to automate ...Full article
OpenPOWER Foundation, the mostly IBM-driven effort to create an alternative architecture to Intel x86, took a major step forward today with the announcement of a joint effort by Google and Rackspace to co-develop an open data center server architecture design specification based on IBM’s new POWER9 CPU. Google said the server supports its work with ...Full article
As Internet-connected, smart devices increasingly meld into all aspects of daily life, people are starting to expect the same connectedness and speed in everything that they do. Companies are discovering that response times that were adequate a few years ago now trigger annoyance and frustration, threatening customer loyalty. To meet today’s demands you have to ...Full article
NVIDIA revealed its first Pascal-architecture based GPU card, the P100, at the seventh-annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose.Calling it “the most advanced accelerator ever built,” the P100 is based on the NVIDIA Pascal GP100 GPU — a successor to the Kepler GK110/210 — and is aimed squarely at HPC, technical computing and deep learning ...Full article
Attacking what it calls "islands of automation" that are thwarting efforts toward continuous delivery of business applications, an IT and DevOps specialist is rolling out a framework to automate the release of business applications. Automic Software Inc., Bellevue, Wash., said Monday (April 4) its application release automation tool seeks to mesh DevOps with existing IT ...Full article
HPE launched new ProLiant9 server options this week that include built-in support for persistent memory, a new HPE product category that the company regards as the inception point for “memory-driven computing,” combining the performance of high-speed memory with the persistence of storage that retains data during power shut downs. While NVDIMMs (Non-volatile Dual In-line Memory ...Full article
Canadian researchers scanning the universe to develop the most detailed map of our three dimensions ever observed are using AMD's GPU accelerator to crunch the celestial data. Based on internal benchmark testing, the chipmaker (NASDAQ:AMD) bills its FirePro S9300 x2 Server GPU as the world’s fastest single-precision GPU accelerator. It claims 13.9 teraflops of "peak ...Full article
Intel has talked publicly for more than a year about its next-gen Scalable System Framework (SSF), an integrated compilation of processor, fabric, storage and memory technologies Intel says will deliver more balanced high-performance systems and serve as the platform for exascale levels of computing. With the unveiling last summer of the Omni-Path Fabric interconnect, SSF ...Full article
Another week, another IBM acquisition: This time, a cloud consulting and implementation services specialist called Bluewolf Group. IBM (NYSE: IBM) said Thursday (March 31) the acquisition would help extend its analytics, cloud consulting and "experience design" capabilities. Bluewolf is a top Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) partner. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed, but reports ...Full article
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