In a sport where the difference between first and second is measured in milliseconds, and even the most subtle of engineering adjustments can mean placing first instead of last, going digital isn’t just an advantage—it’s a necessity. And for Formula One racing teams like Lotus, technologies such as the cloud and data analytics are becoming ...Full article
The battle between Puppet Labs and Opscode for the future of systems management is heating up. Opscode has received a big infusion of cash from venture capital investors. At the same time, Opscode is gearing up its sales and engineering teams, adding to its management team, and changing its company name to Chef Software. The ...Full article
Hewlett-Packard is winding down 2013 with a bunch of systems announcements from its Discover partner and customer event in Barcelona, Spain. The new systems include a Moonshot configuration that the company previewed to EnterpriseTech a few weeks ago as well as some preconfigured machines designed to be used as private clouds or to run HP's ...Full article
A few weeks ago, Intel made its variant of the Lustre file system, popular at supercomputing centers and seeing more and more uses among enterprises that need zippy access to files, available on the Amazon Web Services Market Place. This Intel Cloud Edition for Lustre is performing a bit better than expected on the Amazon ...Full article
If you have the need for speed, Supermicro has a server for you. Supermicro is known to many as a motherboard supplier, but the company has a large and growing systems business aimed at a variety of markets. Supermicro has several system designs aimed at hyperscale datacenter operators, including its FatTwin and MicroCloud, which are ...Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/pia14175_2.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="51" border="0" />Back in July, Curiosity, NASA’s Mars rover, began a 5.3 mile journey to Mount Sharp, a 3.4 mile-high mountain in the Gale Crater. However, in late October, the rover completed a two-day drive all on its own thanks to Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute and their autonomous ...Full article
Hoping to make the most of growing data volumes, three of Cleveland’s biomedical giants—Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University’s medical school—have joined forces in the name of research. The effort will launch the Institute of Computational Biology, which its founders say will help to make a dent in the massive amount of ...Full article
When it comes to the future of retail, PSFK Labs has an idea of what’s in store. According to the latest report in its “The Future of Retail” series, while shoppers needs are stay the same,the sector is expected to be transformed by data mining and analytics from retailers’ perspectives. “We’re seeing the digital and ...Full article
Ahead of next week's Dell World event in its hometown of Austin, Texas, the recently privatized IT giant is revving a new release of its Active System Manager. The big news is that Dell is going to be merging Active System Manager with the popular open source Puppet system configuration system, thereby broadening the reach ...Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/LIAA.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="43" border="0" />On September 2, 2013, the EU project titled “LIAA” was set in motion. With the project, scientists will help to develop robotic systems and applications that will be used for assembly in manufacturing, and in doing so help humans and robots to better work together.Full article
Search engine juggernaut Google is taking the beta label off its Compute Engine cloud infrastructure services, taking on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Windows Azure, IBM SoftLayer, and other public clouds. Economy of scale is what makes it possible for cloud providers to have a viable business and compete against the millions of datacenters and data ...Full article
When Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) was sold from Ford to Tata Motor in 2008, it meant the automotive company would have to migrate from Ford’s IT and product lifecycle management (PLM) systems. But rather than looking at this as a chore, Dave Sharrat, senior manager for PLM at Jaguar Land Rover described the change as ...Full article
Cloud management software provider ScaleXtreme is puffing up its third major release of its cloud management tools, adding a workflow and orchestration engine that can reach up into the applications running on various public and private clouds and make them behave. ScaleXtreme was founded in August 2010 by Nand Mulchandani and Balaji Srinivasa, both of ...Full article
Australian high frequency trading firm Zomojo knows a thing or two about low latency trading and has been building its own hardware and trading platform software for the past five years. Now, it is taking some of its hardware commercial through a new company called Exablaze so others can buy it. Zomojo was founded in ...Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/TotalSim_Trailer.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="95" border="0" />At this year’s Supercomputing conference, Ohio made its mark with a $6.4 million public-private initiative designed to bring high performance computing (HPC) to manufacturers of all sizes—particularly to those small-to-medium-sized companies for which the technologies are cost-prohibitive.Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/autodesk-logo-pantone-uncoated-color-logo-black-text-large-512.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="89" border="0" />Autodesk, popular for its 3D design software, is now looking to make a name for itself in the cloud by migrating an entire software suite to its cloud platform.Full article
Amazon Web Services had first-mover advantage when it launched its EC2 compute cloud back in March 2006, and that was by no means a guarantee of success. But incumbent hosting service providers and system resellers did not see the threat early enough and did not react fast enough. Try as they may, the many competitors ...Full article
Tape may seem retro to a lot of people, but it is still the cheapest way to store huge amounts of data for the least amount of money. The Linear Tape Open (LTO) tape drive format, which has been around for thirteen years now, has increased its capacity by a factor of 25 since it ...Full article
The good news is that Hewlett-Packard is growing its X86 server business faster than the market at large again. The bad news is that a very large hyperscale server deal and an unfavorable mix in sales of ProLiant machines has put the squeeze on profits. In the company's fourth quarter of fiscal 2013 ended in ...Full article
Hewlett-Packard has staked a lot on its hyperscale Moonshot platform and has said from the beginning that it wanted to have a mix of processors and coprocessors so these machines could be aimed at a wide variety of workloads. The company is getting ready to launch a bunch of new server nodes for Moonshot in ...Full article
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