Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Friday, July 3, 2026
On the Front Lines of Advanced Scale Computing: HPC at BP and Rolls-Royce
This is the second of two articles based on the “HPC Impact Showcase” series at SC15 last week in Austin, real-world applications of advanced scale computing to improve business competitiveness and innovation. The first article looked at Boeing; here we spotlight HPC strategies at BP and Rolls-Royce. BP The oil industry, for decades an early ... Full article
Windows Server 2016 Adds Hyper-V Container Support
The growing shift toward cloud-native technologies and applications running in "hybrid datacenters" continues with Microsoft's release of more technical details for Windows Server 2016. As EnterpriseTech reported in August, Microsoft is emphasizing support for application containers, particularly Docker containers. The company released its first preview of its Hyper-V containers last week, which is touted as ... Full article
Towards a ‘Composable Infrastructure’
Composable infrastructure is all about making IT truly programmable in order to get the infrastructure that is needed through a single line of code, the author argues. Full article
On the Front Lines of Advanced Scale Computing: HPC at Boeing
The Boeing Company has one of the largest corporate IT portfolios in the world, an organization comprised of some 7,500 people, most of them in the United States. Instrumental to product design at the company’s commercial, defense and R&D units is the Enterprise HPC Service. Developed in recent years, it’s a centralized advanced scale computing ... Full article
IoT Momentum Building From Ground Up
The churn of technology fuels industry consolidation, an inexorable process that includes individual companies as well as industry groups tasked with driving technical standards. The latest example comes from the Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) launched last year to jumpstart interoperability standards for the Internet of Things (IoT). The group said Monday (Nov. 23) it would ... Full article
Google Targets AWS With New Cloud Boss Diane Greene
Google is upping the ante in the cloud, moving beyond incremental tactics like price wars with market leader Amazon Web Services, to develop a long-term enterprise strategy under new cloud services chief Diane Greene. The search giant on Thursday (Nov. 19) appointed Greene, a Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) board member and co-founder and CEO of VMware ... Full article
Netlist, Samsung Partner on Memory Channel Storage
Analytics and other data intensive applications continue to drive new enterprise memory and storage approaches along with device manufacturing partnerships needed to scale production of emerging memory channel storage platforms. Another case in point is this week's announcement from Netlist Inc. (NASDAQ: NLST) that it is joining forces with Korean memory chip powerhouse Samsung Electronics ... Full article
New Enterprise Users Pushing HPC Server Growth
The rising chorus heard at SC15 this week, particularly from server vendors, is that the enterprise sector presents the strongest area of market growth. This trend contributed to the overall HPC server market’s growth of nearly 12 percent to $11.4 by the end of 2015, according to industry watcher IDC, presented at its annual breakfast ... Full article
Dell Pushing Advanced Scale to the Enterprise
SC15 is starting to feel like EnterpriseHPC15. The big systems and chip makers all seem to be publicly pivoting towards the enterprise. Yesterday it was Dell’s turn declaring its intention to democratize HPC and accelerate mainstream adoption. Dell, which bills itself as the lone desktop-to-petaflops company now that HP has split up, is rolling out ... Full article
SoftLayer, Google Top Cloud Benchmark
An expanded cloud-benchmarking test again found public cloud competitors outperforming industry leader Amazon Web Services in terms of performance and price, with the bare metal version of IBM's SoftLayer platform leading the way followed by Google Cloud. In-memory database vendor VoltDB, an IBM (NYSE: IBM) partner, sponsored the cloud performance benchmark, again using the Yahoo ... Full article
HPE, Intel Join Forces on IoT Development
Two U.S. tech giants with strategies in place to attack the nascent Internet of Thing market said they are joining forces to forge open standards while moving computing power closer to the sensors and other devices at the edge of IoT networks. Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (NASDAQ: HPE) and chipmaker Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) said Tuesday (Nov. ... Full article
Intel’s Bryant Outlines Drive to Exascale
It was a celebratory review of the HPC industry’s achievements to date, a look at the industry’s evolution from its roots in scientific research to providing tools for business insight, and a philosophical discussion of “recursion” – innovation in HPC propelled by machine learning – delivered by Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager ... Full article
Survey: HPC Storage Sector is Booming
Nearly one-third of storage systems spanning storage area networks to cloud platforms reached 1 petabyte or greater capacity in 2015, according to a user census that also projects more than half of installed storage systems will top the 1-PB level by 2020. The storage user survey released by market watcher Intersect360 Research also said surging ... Full article
I/O Project Looks to Bridge Memory-Storage Gap
A European-led initiative will seek to overcome I/O bottlenecks for HPC workloads resulting from too many processors communicating with slow disk storage. The project also would leverage Intel Corp.'s new 3D memory technology unveiled earlier this year. The NextGenIO project announced on Monday (Nov. 16) is led by the EPCC (formally the Edinburgh Parallel Computing ... Full article
OpenPower Looks to Accelerate Enterprise, HPC
At SC15 today, IBM provided a glimpse of its broadening vision for accelerator-assisted computing on Monday (Nov. 16) with announcements at the SC15 conference around Watson, a strategic alliance with FPGA specialist Xilinx, an expanded developer outreach via the SuperVessel program, and new efforts to accelerate the datacenter and a wide variety of applications used ... Full article
DDN’s Bouzari on the Spread of Advanced Scale Computing into the Enterprise, and the Object-based ‘Connected Society’ of the Future
The entire HPC world – from traditional HPC research sites to advanced scale computing in the enterprise – is at a crossroads. Then again, has it ever not been? A company standing in the crossroads, one that is usually ready for whatever is onrushing, is DataDirect Networks, the scalable storage specialist founded in 1998. Back ... Full article
Startup Floats First Commercial ‘Data Barge’
Datacenter operators have adopted a range of novel approaches to reducing energy consumption while boosting a key industry metric: power usage effectiveness, or PUE. These approaches range from building datacenters above the Arctic Circle to eliminating the need for cooling through the use of water misters for evaporative cooling. As datacenter PUE ratings hit a ... Full article
SDN Scheme Aims to Cut Capital Markets Client Provisioning Delays
With the expansion of their global software-defined network (SDN) dedicated to the capital markets industry, Lucera Financial Infrastructures and fiber optics vendor Perseus assert they have cracked one of the most vexing problems faced by traders: shortening the process of onboarding new clients from weeks to one or two days. Delays in provisioning clients can ... Full article
More Partners Sign On to IBM Cloud
IBM rolled out new cloud developer services and tools this week while announcing a partnership with one of India's largest IT outsourcing vendors as it continues to extend its cloud business to capitalize on the enterprise shift to hybrid clouds. IBM (NYSE: IBM) said Nov. 12 it would partner will Bangalore-base HCL Technologies (NSE: HCLTECH) ... Full article
The Rise of the Open-Source Platform
The success of closed-source companies (like Microsoft in the early days of the digital revolution) made it easy to write off open source as a niche movement with little real-world relevance. But the concept of open source is almost as old as software itself — it has been, and continues to be, a viable option. The rise of Linux ... Full article