Sales of processors and other components into the enterprise market have not panned out as expected for Intel in the past three years, the company admitted at its industry analyst meeting late last week, However, other markets that buy chips, chipsets, and other components from its Datacenter and Connected Systems Group helped fill in some ...Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/designtech.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="51" border="0" />Siemens Industry Software India (SISW) has signed an agreement with the Government of Gujarat’s Ministry of Industries and Mines to launch five Centers of Excellence (COEs) in the state. These centers will specifically be aimed at skill development in higher education.Full article
Among other things, Moore's Law allows for the successive integration of system components onto processors. Various levels of cache memory as well as main memory controllers and peripheral controllers have been pulled onto most current CPUs, and the next obvious step is to bring network controllers onto the die. At its annual industry analyst meeting ...Full article
Thanks to issues ranging from proprietary data silos to patient privacy concerns, imbuing the healthcare industry with a knowledge gained from a country’s worth of patient medical history via a single organization is out of the question. But the first step to overcoming a problem is admitting it, which is what has led the Association ...Full article
One of the more interesting demonstrations at the SC13 supercomputing conference last week in Denver was a Xeon E5 server dunked in a tank of Novec fire suppressant fluid. The server was not on fire, but the Novec fluid, which does not react with electronics, was used to passively remove heat from the server. 3M, ...Full article
Disk and flash array maker NetApp showed off a refresh of its E-Series machines at the SC13 supercomputing conference last week. The E-Series are not the biggest, baddest arrays that NetApp sells, but they pack plenty of performance, particularly after the new processor and flash upgrades. More importantly, says the company, the boxes have predictable ...Full article
With 2013 racing to an end, it’s the time of year when industry visionaries start to reflect on the road that was, and what may come. Among the reflections that have started to filter into the news stream are those of Amazon’s CTO Werner Vogels, who dished this week on trends worth tracking in 2014. ...Full article
home and shop on their computers, thanks to a slew of features from customer reviews to recommended items based on a shoppers browsing history. Already Amazon has charged ahead in this arena, leaving brick-and-mortar retailers at a loss when it comes to keeping customers in the store. But Index, a new analytics company from the ...Full article
Over a year and a half after the Obama Administration announced a $200 million investment in big data projects geared toward healthcare, energy and the environment, the White House has returned with an update that includes new partnerships in data science. At the “Data Knowledge to Action” event, representatives of government agencies, technology companies, universities ...Full article
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is by far the dominant variant of commercially supported Linux in the enterprise, and based on anecdotal evidence has an even larger share of Linux installations at financial services firms. With Enterprise Linux 6.5, its latest release, Red Hat is adding more features specifically needed by financial services firms and any ...Full article
In the near future, if you search for a flight online, it’s likely that your query will run against Couchbase’s NoSQL database. That’s because Amadeus, the Spanish company that processes many of the world’s flight, hotel, and cruise ship reservation transactions, is in the process of implementing a NoSQL database from Couchbase to streamline the ...Full article
Big computing takes big energy. Two of the biggest computing entities on the planet, Facebook and Google, have revealed details of new renewable energy projects that they are involved with, which they say underscore their commitment to clean, renewable energy. When Facebook announced its Altoona, Iowa datacenter this past spring, one of the promises it ...Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/epcc.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="55" border="0" />A consortium of 45 partners have assembled in Europe with the hope of fortifying the international manufacturing marketplace through modeling and simulation tools. After an initial phase of closed testing led by the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), the new HPC cloud project is opening its doors.Full article
Intel is the world’s largest chip maker and is also the dominant supplier of processors for servers. So it might seem that Intel would have an unlimited supply of cheap processing capacity to design and make its Atom, Core, and Xeon chips. This is not so. As it turns out, the managers who care and ...Full article
Software giant Microsoft has been using InfiniBand networking technology in its Azure cloud for a few years now, and has also been working with Mellanox Technologies to tune up Windows Server 2012 so it can take advantage of the high-bandwidth and low-latency of InfiniBand networks. To demonstrate its commitment to InfiniBand, its Remote Direct Memory ...Full article
IBM wants its Power Systems platforms to continue to thrive in the datacenter, and it knows it has to do everything it can to give the Power family of processors all of the advantages that an X86 chip has. Oddly enough, an important advantage that the X86 architecture has right now over Power is the ...Full article
When high performance is needed, some enterprises have no choice but to get out there on the bleeding edge and experiment with new technology and put it into production use. This is precisely the situation that Tradeworx, a hedge fund and proprietary trader, found itself in when it needed a high-bandwidth file system for developers ...Full article
There is a growing consensus among system makers, driven in large part by work done by Intel and members of the Open Compute Project founded by Facebook, that the components on a system should be broken apart and linked by silicon photonics circuits paired with fiber optic pipes. By doing so, elements of the system ...Full article
Cisco Systems is another in a line of IT giants that are reporting sales that are lower than expected and a consequential impact to the bottom line in its most recent financial results. While Cisco is under pressure in its core switching and routing markets, its Unified Computing System converged platforms are eating market share ...Full article
Rackspace Hosting just announced its own high-performance, flash-based server instances on its public cloud, and Amazon Web Services has answered with EC2 compute cloud instances that have the latest Intel Xeon processors, big gobs of memory, and flash storage to support the most demanding applications. The new C3 instance types on the EC2 compute cloud ...Full article
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