British high-end Ethernet switch maker Gnodal went into administration in early October, and Cray has hired the key staff at the company while also picking up a bunch of intellectual property related to networking. By taking on fifteen key employees of Gnodal, Cray is going to more than double its research and development team in ...Full article
If there is one lesson that all extreme scale system designs teach us over and over again, it is that you have to tailor the system for the specific job. You can't make a general-purpose machine scream with performance. Instead, you have to pick the right tools for the job and you have to tune ...Full article
Mellanox is making headway selling its networking hardware and software in both public and private clouds, as EnterpriseTech has previously reported. But the company has to make it easier to use its InfiniBand and Ethernet products with popular cloud software. To that end, Mellanox has worked with key parts of the OpenStack project to get ...Full article
In 1735, Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus defined what would become part of biology’s foundation by defining taxonomic descriptions that would help scientists tell species apart. Now, a new study published in Biodiversity Data Journal is taking this method into the future by combining Linnaeus’ work with molecular tools, barcoding, and advanced computing and imaging technologies. ...Full article
When it comes to technology, retailers are struggling to find professionals with everything from managing analytics to simply operating basic equipment, according to a survey by SAP. Although retailers reported that they need these tech competencies more than general business and people skills, SAP found that 84 percent of retailers worry they won’t be able ...Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/995783_10151623823364032_283182014_a.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="95" border="0" />Just in time for the holidays, Honda Research and Development Americas has given Ohio State University a $5 million dollar gift to go towards the school’s engineering program. The contribution will be used to launch a virtual simulation and product modeling center.Full article
If you have a need for networking speed, Juniper Networks is rolling out a new line of Ethernet switches in its QFX line that offer more bandwidth, more ports, and lower latencies than existing models and that go up against the Nexus 6000 switches from Cisco Systems. The company is also offering a new kind ...Full article
As more businesses and consumers turn to the cloud for systems, apps and storage, datacenters are quickly becoming one of the largest consumers of electric power: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that these facilities now account for 1.5 percent of electricity consumption. And that figure is only expected to rise. As datacenters grow to ...Full article
As we face the implementation of a new, reformed healthcare system, the ability to compare various plans has established itself as the movement’s backbone. However, the infrastructure thus far has been lacking, with few systems capable of effectively parsing through healthcare payment data. But SAS has stepped into the arena, armed with new software, to ...Full article
After nine months of disputing that Amazon Web Services should not have been awarded a massive contract to build a private cloud for the US government's Central Intelligence Agency, IBM has withdrawn its protest seeking an injunction to prevent AWS from moving ahead with the project. "In light of the government's recent submissions emphasizing its ...Full article
The Human Genome Sequencing Center (HGSC) at Baylor College of Medicine and DNAnexus are coming together to analyze genomic data on a large scale. In doing so, Baylor has made 430 terabytes of data available to over 300 researchers at the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) Consortium. As a part ...Full article
As the dominant supplier of commercially supported Hadoop software, Cloudera has perhaps the best view of what is going on among large enterprises as they use the platform. To take the pulse of Cloudera's largest customers, EnterpriseTech sat down with the company's chairman and chief strategy officer, Mike Olson, and its chief executive officer, Tom ...Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Dean_Jarvis.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" border="0" />Stratasys, a manufacturer of 3D printers and production systems, has announced that it has partnered with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to advance the development of prosthetics by producing more lightweight, high performance versions at an affordable price.Full article
According to one CEO in the manufacturing space, socio-political turmoil coupled with the Internet of Things is actually helping to secure the role of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software throughout the industry. At the IFS World Conference in Barcelona this week, IFS CEO Alastair Sorbie pointed to tragic events such as the ongoing Syrian civil ...Full article
According to new research from Bain & Company, a global management consulting firm, for many businesses “big data” has not yet brought about big results. Bain spoke with CIOs and business leaders of 400 large organizations to determine just how much value was being driven from predictive analytics, and found that only four percent of ...Full article
To unearth rare elements such as lithium and platinum, auto manufacturer Ford is turning to data. Currently, Ford’s analytics tools are being used to keep a secure supply of these materials, but the company says that once its platform has been established, it also plans to use this information to identify areas where environmentally friendly ...Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/splitscimitar.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="64" border="0" />As the first airline to implement the eye-catching “split scimitar” winglets, United Airlines is turning heads this week as the testing for the new design begins. Named for a curved medieval saber, the split scimitar is a retrofit for traditional winglets that extend up at a plane’s ...Full article
The next time you hear someone say that Google is managing a fleet of servers, it might be literal as well as figurative. The folks at the Googleplex headquarters in Mountain View, California appear to be testing out floating datacenters in San Francisco bay and possibly in Portland, Maine – an idea the company patented ...Full article
There aren’t many tech companies one can rattle off that have a 40-year history of solid revenue growth, but according to Dr. Jim Goodnight, CEO of SAS during a recent sit-down with us, the road ahead still appears to be paved in gold. During his long tenure at the helm, Goodnight has seen a number ...Full article
According to a poll taken today at the SPE Intelligent Energy International 2013 (IE2013) exhibition in Dubai, oil and gas professionals have unanimously identified the management and analysis of growing data volumes as the greatest challenge to the sector. The event is expected to bring together 2,000 energy leaders from around the world, with areas ...Full article
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