Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Tuesday, July 7, 2026
Mechdyne to Add 3D Visualization Lab at CCAM
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/images-12.jpeg" alt="" width="95" height="27" border="0" />This past Wednesday, the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CCAM), a research center that provides advanced manufacturing solutions to member companies around the world, announced a new research collaborative with Mechdyne. Full article
LinkedIn Copes with Server Explosion with Revved Up CFEngine
The dream of every Internet startup is for an idea to take off and go mainstream. This is precisely the nightmare of every system administrator that works at these fast-growing companies. Luckily, most of them are adept at using and writing software, and if they need to tweak a product to make it work better ... Full article
Dynamic Pricing: Here to Stay?
Electronic displays are everywhere, from billboards to airport flight directories. Despite their cost, these displays are ideal for situations when their content frequently needs to be changed. So why hasn’t this caught on in places such as supermarkets, where item costs fluctuate on a daily basis? In the past, retailers have explained that the cost ... Full article
Cisco Bakes SDN Into Switch Chips
Cisco Systems is still the dominant supplier of switches and routers in the datacenter, but upstarts like Arista Networks and Juniper Networks have done well selling faster switches in flatter networks. Now it is Cisco's turn to push back, and it is doing so with a new line of high-end Nexus 9000 switches with software-defined ... Full article
Manufacturers Gather to Make a Stand on Capitol Hill
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Obama_Health_Care_Speech_to_Joint_Session_of_Congress.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" border="0" />A coalition of 23 United States manufacturers, including prominent names such as Lockheed Martin and Boeing, have come together to support an effort to influence technological policy on the federal level. Full article
Deloitte Spots Six Trends for Healthcare Data
As data volumes grow, so too does the term “smart,” which refers to tools that can more easily find a needle of meaning from a haystack. And as we move from using these data for hindsight to foresight, Deloitte has mapped out six key trends helping to make this possible. As Brett Davis, a principal ... Full article
UK’s NHS Faces Scrutiny as Medical Data Goes Public
With the goal of going paperless by 2018, the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) has set its sights on an ambitious goal. But as means to that end is an objective that’s met with more resistance: making all patient data transparent. In 2011, Prime Minister David Cameron made the announcement that every NHS patient would ... Full article
Adobe Branches Out for Retail Analytics
For most consumers, the name Adobe means one of two things: it’s either the program you use for editing photos, or the program you use for reading PDFs. But surprisingly the fastest-growing division of Adobe its its Marketing Cloud, which in the past few quarters has expanded at a rate between 20 and 25 percent ... Full article
IBM Transitions SmartCloud Users to SoftLayer
Last week, IBM notified customers of its SmartCloud Enterprise infrastructure cloud that on January 31, 2014, their accounts would no longer be available and that customers would have to move over to SoftLayer, another public cloud that IBM acquired this past summer. From the IBM statement: “SoftLayer will be the foundation of IBM’s cloud portfolio ... Full article
Cray Taps HSM Startup for Tiered Storage
Cray has aspirations in enterprise datacenters and that means putting together a complete set of storage as well as heavy-duty compute clusters. To that end, Cray is working with partners to forge the Tiered Adaptive Storage appliance, which is used to archive data to disk and tape. "Cray is investing in storage and data management ... Full article
Boston Engineering Finds New Home at UMass Dartmouth
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/NE11256.jpeg" alt="" width="95" height="52" border="0" />On Tuesday, Boston Engineering Corporation, an engineering consultancy that designs and engineers product solutions for commercial and government entities, announced that it had opened a new office at the Advanced Technical Manufacturing Center (ATMC) of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Full article
BMW Backs Open-Source Platform for Driverless Cars
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/autonomousBMW.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="64" border="0" />Since the first electronic driver assistance systems such as anti-lock brakes were installed in vehicles of the 60’s, we’ve come a long way. But in order to make this possibility a reality for millions of drivers, BMW says that current software platforms just won’t cut it. And ... Full article
Lustre Makes the Enterprise Grade with HSM
The Lustre parallel file system that was spawned and nurtured in supercomputing labs is now more appropriate as a high-speed file system for enterprise applications. With the launch of the Lustre 2.5, the open source file system is getting a set of APIs that will let hierarchical storage management (HSM) software plug into it, allowing ... Full article
Who Is Using OpenStack, And How?
The OpenStack Summit is underway in Hong Kong this week, and the foundation behind the cloud controller project has released the results of a survey that was done to try to figure out just who is putting OpenStack into production and how it is being used. The survey was done in October not only to ... Full article
Rackspace Jacks Up Memory, Adds SSDs on Public Cloud
If you want to charge a premium price for a product, you have to offer a premium service. Rather than get into a price war with Amazon Web Services, Rackspace Hosting has contended that it offers better tech support to justify its higher prices. Now, Rackspace is cranking up the performance on its Cloud Servers ... Full article
Google Spends $600 Million on Finnish Datacenter Expansion
The climate in Finland may not be ideal for many people, but servers, switches, and storage sure like the chilly weather. That is why Google bought an abandoned paper mill in March 2009 for $40 million to convert it into a datacenter, and the company is now injecting its third round of funding towards a ... Full article
ARM CEO Simon Segars Eyes IoT
A new network infrastructure is the reality of the future thanks to the proliferation of mobile devices and the coming rise of the Internet of Things, said ARM CEO Simon Segars in a video interview from TechCon ’13. The CEO of the insurgent processor company called out the need for a lower power, higher bandwidth ... Full article
HP to Port NonStop Clusters from Itanium to Xeon
Hewlett-Packard is in the process of porting its NonStop fault tolerant database clusters to Intel's Xeon processors after an eight-year run on the Itanium chip. The company is also rolling the "Poulson" Itanium 9500 chips into its existing NonStop systems. The Xeon port of the NonStop stack is significant because Intel has not formally sunsetted ... Full article
Arista Flattens Networks for Large Enterprises with Splines
Arista Networks, which boasts serial entrepreneur Andy Bechtolsheim as its chief development officer and chairman, has been selling products for five years against Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, Mellanox Technologies, and others in the networking arena. Its largest customer has 200,000 servers connected on a single network. So Arista can hardly be thought of as a ... Full article
Exar Compresses HDFS, Boosts Hadoop Performance
Here at EnterpriseTech, we are always on the hunt for any technology that can be used to push performance on large-scale systems. At the Strata/Hadoop World conference in New York we came across a compression card made by Exar for the Hadoop Distributed File System that not only cuts back on the amount disk capacity ... Full article